The quote is an excellent example of Engrish ; poor translations of Japanese to English involving improper syntax or incorrect subject-verb agreement. All Your Base Are Belong To Us is one example of a meme popularized by SA forum Goons.

We charge money because it costs us $3,400 per month for bandwidth bills alone, and since we don't believe in shoving popup ads to our registered users, we try to make the money back through forum registrations. "All your base are belong to us" is a broken English ("Engrish") phrase found in the opening cutscene of the 1989 video game Zero Wing which became a popular Internet meme.

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All Your Base Are Belong to Us is a quote from the video game Zero Wing.

The quote is included in the European version of the game, which features poor English translations of the original Japanese version.