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All Your Base (2001)
All your base are belong to us — the first internet-wide meme.
- Cost
- 4 RAM
- Power
- 1
- Rarity
- Epic
- Family
- Media
- Era
- Dot-com (1999 to 2002)
- Collection
- Meme Machine
What it does
On reveal: +2 Power to your cards in other lanes.
On reveal happens once, when the card flips.
It costs 4 RAM to play and brings 1 Power to its lane. You get 1 RAM in round 1, 2 in round 2, and so on.
Media cards broadcast Power to your other lanes.
The site, in 2001
A page about the 'All your base' meme, a garbled line from the opening scene of the video game Zero Wing.
The line is from the 1991 Sega Mega Drive version, whose English script was written by a Toaplan staff member and not a professional translator. Unlike most memes of its time, it had no crude jokes.
In 2001: On 16 February a user called Bad_CRC posted a techno music video of the line to Newgrounds. It spread fast and drew wide media attention.
Dot-com era, 1999 to 2002. Glossy buttons, big money and a bug called Y2K. Some of these companies were worth billions for about a fortnight.
Meme Machine: Where the jokes everyone repeated got started.
Pixel tribute by dub3, after the 2001 page.
Put it on your site
Run All Your Base, or just remember it fondly? Here's its button, 88 by 31 like it's 2001. Paste this into your page:
In the game, this pixel page loads the way it did in 2001, then plays a short scene. Want All Your Base in your deck? Make a free account and open some packs, or try a match first. No sign-up needed for that.
