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Now I wonder, was the poorly translated game translated that way on purpose? From memory: > Someone set us up the bomb! > Make your time, ha ha ha.
by codazoda 6y ago
Now I wonder, was the poorly translated game translated that way on purpose?
From memory:
> Someone set us up the bomb!
> Make your time, ha ha ha.
- nerdponx 6y agoFor anyone who hasn't seen it: https://youtu.be/jQE66WA2s-A https://youtu.be/jQE66WA2s-A
- stickfigure 6y ago...you are one of today's lucky 10,000!
- howlgarnish 6y agoThat would be Zero Wing of "All your base are belong to us" fame, and no, that was just a bad translation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_your_base_are_belong_to_us https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_your_base_are_belong_to_us Random anecdote: in 2005, when "all your base" was still in peak meme, I happened to be in Kuta Square in Bali with a friend when Jemaah Islamiyah blew up one of their devices. Rattled but unharmed and unclear on what exactly had just happened, we returned to our hotel and watched TV news. Once the penny dropped, the following dialogue ensued: - What happen? - Someone set us up the bomb.
- joshspankit 6y agoWas that dialog on the TV news??
- howlgarnish 6y agoNo, it was us realizing that somebody actually set us up the bomb, instead of it being an LPG canister explosion in a restaurant etc.
- coldpie 6y agoThere's a great discussion of what a proper translation of Zero Wing might have been like here: https://legendsoflocalization.com/lets-take-a-peek-at-zero-wings-all-your-base-translation/ https://legendsoflocalization.com/lets-take-a-peek-at-zero-w...
- colanderman 6y agoZero Wing has nothing on the Vietnamese bootleg translation of Pokémon Crystal: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZ_bhwCgtXg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZ_bhwCgtXg > Do you know how to use the phone? > Of course, first you insert the pin of Xiuci, and then I select the Holy Figure!