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all your base are belong to us 

A declaration of victory or superiority. The phrase stems from a 1991 adaptation of Toaplan's "Zero Wing" shoot-'em-up arcade game for the Sega Genesis game console. A brief introduction was added to the opening screen, and it has what many consider to be the worst Japanese-to-English translation in video game history. The introduction shows the bridge of a starship in chaos as a Borg-like figure named CATS materializes and says, "How are you gentlemen!! All your base are belong to us." sic In 2001, this amusing mistranslation spread virally through the internet, bringing with it a slew of JPEGs and a movie of hacked photographs, each showing a street sign, store front, package label, etc. hacked to read "All your base are belong to us" or one of the other many supremely dopey lines from the game (such as "Somebody set us up the bomb!!!" or "What happen?"). When these phrases are used properly, the overall effect is both screamingly funny and somewhat chilling, reminiscent of the B movie "They Live".

The original has been generalized to "All your X are belong to us", where X is filled in to connote a sinister takeover of some sort. Thus, "When Joe signed up for his new job at Yoyodyne, he had to sign a draconian NDA. It basically said, `All your code are belong to us.'" Has many of the connotations of "Resistance is futile; you will be assimilated"
all your base are belong to us

all your base are belong to us 

A Japanese Genesis game called zero-wing got poorly translated into English. This sentence is now spread all over the internet.
English version:

In A.D. 2101
War was beginning.
Captain: What happen ?
Mechanic: Somebody set up us the bomb.
Operator: We get signal.
Captain: What !
Operator: Main screen turn on.
Captain: It's You !!
Cats: How are you gentlemen !!
Cats: All your base are belong to us.
Cats: You are on the way to destruction.
Captain: What you say !!
Cats: You have no chance to survive make your time.
Cats: HA HA HA HA ....
Captain: Take off every 'zig' !!
Captain: You know what you doing.
Captain: Move 'zig'.
Captain: For great justice.

All your base are belong to us 

All your base are belong to us" (often shortened to "All Your Base", "AYBABTU", or simply "AYB") is a broken English phrase that sparked an internet phenomenon in 2001 and 2002, with the spread of a Flash animation that depicted the slogan. The text is taken from the opening cut scene of the European Sega Mega Drive version of Zero Wing, a Japanese video game by Toaplan which was rushed and so was rather poorly translated into English, and is often regarded as butchering the English language.
In A.D. 2101
War was beginning.
Captain: What happen ?
Mechanic: Somebody set up us the bomb.
Operator: We get signal.
Captain: What !
Operator: Main screen turn on.
Captain: It's you !!
CATS: How are you gentlemen !!
CATS: All your base are belong to us.
CATS: You are on the way to destruction.
Captain: What you say !!
CATS: You have no chance to survive make your time.
CATS: Ha ha ha ha ....
Operator: Captain !! *
Captain: Take off every 'ZIG'!!
Captain: You know what you doing.
Captain: Move 'ZIG'.
Captain: For great justice.

all your soul are belong to us 

All Your Snakes Are Belong To Us 

All Your Snakes Are Belong To Us is created using the same video game animation as used in All Your Base Are Belong To Us. The video can be found on the website of the same name, and is unique in that it alters the dialogue found in the 'All Your Base Are Belong To Us' and uses different images containing the 'all your snakes are belong to us' phrase.

All your snakes are belong to us can also be use as a victorious battle cry after having achieved something.

Inspired by the badass movie "Snakes on a Plane", starring the Number 1 badass himself, Samuel L. Jackson.
Guy 1: Dude we totally owned you Guy 3!
Guy 2: Yeah, all your snakes are belong to us, for sure!
Guy 3: You guys suck... :(

or

(after walking out of Snakes on a Plane)
Guy 1: This movie owns your life Guy 3!
Guy 2: All your snakes are belong to Samuel Jackson.
Guy 3: Leave me alone! ;'(

All your base belong to us

Infamous mistranslated line from Zero Wing(1991) Correctly, this would read " All of your bases belong to us." This is so popular it has randomly been observed drawn by sticks in Nevada. Aliens
Robot dude : All your base belong to us.

Internet:(Laughes)
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