#zero wing

[mikailborg]

As usual, made with the Death Generator by @foone.

[cringecorp]

stacy's mom has set up us the bomb

[oldgamemags]

Mega Play Vol. #2 No. #4, July '91 - A look at 'Zero Wing' on the SEGA Genesis.

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Requested by @zanreosauce

[victusinveritas]

FOR GREAT JUSTICE.

#ZeroWingFeld

[hardcore-gaming-101]

Top 47K - Metroid Dread (and Zero Wing!)

MARCHROIDVANIA HAS BEEN HERE THIS WHOLE MONTH! We just forgot to write it in the show notes. Join the HG101 gang as they discuss and rank Metroid’s triumphant 2D return to new ideas! Then stick around for ZERO WING, a game the internet noticed.

[collateralcorp]

OFFICIAL COLLATERALCORP STREAM ANNOUNCENT

SCHEDULE FOR THE WEEK OF SUNDAY, JANUARY 19TH - SATURDAY, JANUARY 25TH

Tuesday, 8:00PM EST - [Carrie] Sonic Heroes (Part 3)

Wednesday, 8:00PM EST - Zero Wing (one-off)

Friday, 8:00PM EST - [Nate] Harvestella (part 14)

Saturday, 8:00PM EST - [Nate] Harvestella (Part 15)

[gamequoteshowdown]

Quote 1: "All your base are belong to us" - Cats, Zero Wing

Quote 2: "You deserved better from me than one sword and a world full of troubles." - Chrom, Fire Emblem: Awakening

Propaganda

Quote 1: So, while this quote itself is a poor English translation from Japanese, it became one of the OG internet memes, and was a staple of the early internet. A better translation would be "CATS has taken all of your bases", and for me it helps show just how much better/easier translation in the 30ish years since the game was released. - Submitter

Quote 2: me 🤝 Lucina Crying at this line - Submitter

PLEASE VOTE IN THIS POLL, THE OTHER ONE WILL NOT BE COUNTED

[yesterdays-xkcd]

The AYB retro-return-date (Zero Wing Zero Hour) should be around AD 2021.

All Your Base [Explained]

Transcript

[A section of a Linux terminal window is shown.] Text from window: ~ /$ ls / ayb boot etc lib ... bin dev home mnt ... ~/ $ ls /ayb/ allyourbase_original.swf al... allyourbase_remix.swf ... allyourbase_remix2.swf b ... ayb_acapella.mp3 ze... ayb_images ze... ayb_orchestral.mp3 ....

[Ponytail is at a computer.] Ponytail: What's with the All Your Base stuff? Didn't that die like five years ago? [From off-panel]: Yes.

[Cueball enters the panel.] Cueball: It was my first internet meme, and my favorite. Others tired of it, but I never did. Cueball: So I wait.

[Cueball raises his fists.] Cueball: Someday, decades from now, people will have forgotten. It will be fresh again. Cueball: Retro. Cueball: And when that day comes Cueball: I WILL BE READY!

Ponytail: You need a hobby or something. Cueball: What you say!! Cueball: Wait, too soon.

[sannyo-appreciation-posts]

Sannyo in Zero Wing

[allottavabassa]

I'm straight up movin' it. And by "it", well. Let's just say. Every ZIG.

[pipzeroes]

ALL YOUR BREATH ARE BELONG TO US.

This whole thing is based on the All Your Base Are Belong To Us meme. The warning at the beginning is because a.) the music is a subgenre of hardcore techno known as gabber and kind of loud, in case you are unfamiliar with this kind of EDM and/or the song in the original video, and, b.) concerns such as photosensitive epilepsy (at one point, 16 images appear in just under four seconds).

More background beneath cut.

(Writeup also posted on dreamwidth and post about video also shared on zeroes; video on Vimeo and on YouTube as well.)

A rundown on the content of the vid:

The images of the wolf are from the seventh episode of the fourth episode of The Simpsons, Marge Gets a Job; it is a wolf startled by LOUD NOISES. Then it's Cats from Zero Wing (the video game central to the All Your Base Are Belong To Us meme) with a SARS-CoV-2 virion for a face. And the poster for the 2017 film The Shape of Water (see also on zeroes). Then it's the webcomic Dinosaur Comics! (Thanks, Ryan!) Next a reference to the slipcase for White Town (Jyoti Mishra)'s Your Woman. (Just added a mask to the picture of the cat with the thumbs up; I am afraid I am unaware of the origin of the original cat meme...) Then it's the first page of All's Well, that Ends Well from the First Folio of Shakespeare's plays, published in 1623. And then the scene from the 2022 film Glass Onion when Lionel Toussaint holds up a faxed message from Miles Bron: "Uber for Biospheres". Next, a reference blog/webcomic Hyperbole and a Half and a panel for one comic where the author portrays an initial manic enthusiasm when cleaning up: "CLEAN ALL THE THINGS".

The original Doge photo. (See also: DOGE on tumblr, DOGE on zeroes.)

And The Quest of the Virosols!!! I really appreciate these graphics. (Please note, I am not affiliated with the Aerosol Science Research Center, I am publicly disseminating useful information for educational purposes; All Your Breath Are Belong To Us is a PSA <3)

The record is based on Otis Rush's "All Your Love" and "COVID" was "Cobra" (see also: some images used to construct).

The Sudden Clarity Clarence meme!

An animation of a diaphragm exhaling and inhaling (with the little purple virosols added!)

And then False Knees Comic 296! (Thanks, Joshua!) (I am once again reminding you that I am not affiliated with the Aerosol Science Research Center.)

And the next six images are the only memes I've not made in this vid (and the person who added the masks to pictures of these images has approved the use of them in this video; thank you!)

Fruit by Alphonse Mucha (Source.)

Le Désespéré by Gustave Courbet (Source.)

Autoportrait by Tamara de Lempicka (Source.)

Trop tôt by James Tissot (Source.)

Autorretrato con Collar de Espinas by Frida Kahlo (Source.)

A photo of the models for Grant Wood's American Gothic standing beside the painting itself. (Source.)

Then the poster for the 1994 film The Mask. (See also on zeroes.) Next a scene from Datalore, the thirteenth episode of the first season of Star Trek: The Next Generation.

And a reference to a version of the album cover for Vangelis' 1985 album Mask. (See also: Vangelis' Mask (1985) is not to be confused with Vangelis' mask (Ninjago), which is a face cover worn by King Vangelis of the Kingdom of Shintaro (for like, a moment [while trying to find info about the album cover], I thought the Greek composer and arranger of electronic, progressive, ambient, and classical orchestral music had an alter ego known as the Skull Sorcerer, but apparently not). [mirror on zeroes])

Aaaaand the Original Goncharov shoe!!! (See also.) Then the 1984 film Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind [風の谷のナウシカ "kaze no tani no naushika"]; the character Nausicaä wears this mask in the original film. Next, an image of a number of risks, originally published by the CDC.

Steamed Hams. (See also: ...and you call for "cleaned hands" despite the fact COVID is obviously airborne... [mirror on zeroes])

(I am once again reminding you that I am not affiliated with the Aerosol Science Research Center.)

GEORDI LA FORGE! (See also: Hand washing as but one component of a "Swiss cheese model" composed of preventative measures including personal actions [such as wearing a well-fitting mask, physical distancing, avoiding crowds, and "staying home when sick"], as well as public measures [such as standards for ventilation and air filtration of indoor spaces, effective messaging on disease prevention, and reliable support for those needing to "stay home sick"], mitigations which, when used in combination, significantly reduce the spread of airborne disease.)

WEDNESDAY FROG MEME! (See also: It is Airborne, my dudes. [mirror on zeroes])

S'CHN T'GAI SPOCK! (See also: logic clearly dictates that SARS-CoV-2 spreads via infected breath [and can remain suspended in the air, travelling inside tiny specs of moisture, floating like smoke or mist]; therefore, COVID is airborne; mask up, live long, and prosper [mirror on zeroes])

The woman yelling at a cat meme.

The Is This a Pigeon? meme. (See also: "Droplets" are basically spittle, falling to the ground not far from the source [the infected person's mouth]. "Aerosols" are pretty much breath, tiny particles of infectious virus-containing-moisture that can remain suspended in the air [able to float distances greater than a metre]. [mirror on zeroes])

Darmok and Jalad at 2 metres! (See also: 2 metres physical distance helps you to avoid droplets [infected spittle] but "COVID is airborne" and floats like cigarette smoke, so even 2 metres still means a risk of airborne transmission [from infected breath]. Like Tanagra, 2 metres from a potential source of infection is still a place of potential danger. [mirror on zeroes])

Napoleon Dynamite (the shirt with "COVID IS AIRBORNE" originally says "VOTE FOR PEDRO"). (See also: I spent last summer making Corsi-Rosenthal Box filters, like, fifty of 'em! The SARS-CoV-2 floating in the air kept trying to attack my cousins, what the heck would you do in a situation like that? [mirror on zeroes])

Pokemon! (See also: if COVID aerosols/breath builds up somewhere indoors that isn't well ventilated, and the air is not filtered well enough, you may get sick even after an infected person has left the room. [mirror on zeroes])

AVATAR. (And yes, the font used for "AIRBORNE" is Papyrus.) (I am once again asking you to remember that I am not affiliated with the Aerosol Science Research Center.)

GONCHAROV!!! GONCHAROV!!! (Thanks Beelz!) (See also: Written by Mattwo JWHJ 0715. [mirror on zeroes])

The Always has been meme. (See also: Aerosols/breath (tiny bits of infected moisture) can remain suspended in the air and are able to float distances greater than a metre. [mirror on zeroes])

(I am once again asking you to remember that I am not affiliated with the Aerosol Science Research Center.) Aside from the images which just are what the are (e.g. the CDC infographic, the ASRC graphics), and the six images related to paintings, all memes were put together by yours truly. <3 The song was, originally, "Invasion of the Gabber Robots" by the Laziest Men on Mars, which sampled music created by Tatsuya Uemura and Noriyuki Iwadare.

Re-writing of lyrics, and the audio and video editing, were also my doing; REAPER for the audio editing, GNU Image Manipulation Program for the meme making, Shotcut for the video editing.

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[retrogamelovers]

Zero Wing 🎮

[archoneddzs15]

PC Engine - Zero Wing

Title: Zero Wing / ゼロウイング

Developer/Publisher: Toaplan / Naxat Soft

Release date: 18 September 1992

Catalogue No.: NXCD1003

Genre: Horizontal Shooter

Format: CD-ROM2

Yep, the game that spawned the "All your base are belong to us" internet phenomenon is also on the PC Engine in CD-ROM format. I can't help but feel that the Mega Drive cartridge version is better than this CD version, but that's not to say it's a bad game on the PCE CD. Oh no, this is actually a pretty great game. The PC Engine version has been given a nice anime intro with lots of characters, some cutscenes, and even two extra levels (including the final stage with a new final boss). However, the very colorful and relatively sparse graphics don't quite match the hard shooting action. Furthermore, the weapons you have on offer can only be upgraded up to three times. From the sixth level onwards, there are also a few bouts of stuttering, which dampens the fun a little. Several other shooters on the PC Engine are really much, much better and leave Zero Wing several light-years behind, but again that is not to say this version is bad, oh no. It is still a great game to play all those years later whether it be this, the Mega Drive, or the arcade original.

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art by kevinbolk

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