Video games will be in high demand this holiday season especially with the launch of Nintendo’s Wii console and Sony’s Playstation 3. This will cause many gamers to flock to their favorite retailers to buy the lastest and greatest video games from North America and Japan for their favorite systems. Video games now have expensive budgets and every detail must be fixed before a product’s release date.One major problem comes from the fact that games that are developed in Japan are later released in North America and need to be translated for the American gamer. Recently there has been more effort given to this practice to avoid any errors but that hasn’t always been the case. Over the years, there have been many translation errors from Japanese to English in what we like to call Engrish. The one that takes the cake though is from the video game Zero Wing. The text is taken from the opening cut scene of the English version of the 1989 Japanese video game Zero Wing by Toaplan- in which the translated quote turns into this masterpiece about invading something or someone.
| -“All your base are belong to us” |
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