Link to video
at bottom of this page.
This image has found its way into the "All Your Base Are Belong To Us"
video craze. I learn about it 1 1/2 years later when a reader sends
this note:
Hello Robert,
My name is Davis. I
came across your web site about a year ago while searching for information
on Montana. I was glad to see the sign for Bad Route at least to know
it existed (it's a long, but interesting story.)
I was wondering if anyone
has asked about the sign before? I'm sure you realize now the sign
(the exact picture) was in the video for "All your bases are belong to us."
You see, my computer is pretty old and I haven't kept up with the latest
fads, but my friend was showing me the video and I knew that was the same
picture from your web site. I was just wondering if you gave the picture
to them or did the people copy it off your web site?
From a later email:
The story of the video is
that a video game from 1989 was being translated for the first Sega console
and the translations didn't come out to well from the Japanese interpreter.
Someone about three or four years ago posted the humorous lines of bad dialogue
to a forum and people were using them as sort of inside jokes. Another
person added music to the actual screen shots and put it on the web.
Then ANOTHER person added pictures from the Internet with the saying "All
your base are belong to us" photoshopped into the picture (stuff like McDonalds,
billboards, road signs,etc.) I guess it was supposed to look like
some sort of conspiracy or alien invasion.
Anyway, if you can play flash
movies it's all over the net. Here's a
link: See bottom of
page.
Find your sign here too:
(Page no longer there)
They even added a little story
-
"This photograph was taken
by Emma and David Hess in April of 1997 on a remote highway in rural Montana.
They claim to have returned to the same location 6 months later, only to
find the sign had been removed."
Davis
A very insightful comment from another reader
Robert, it was interesting that they used your picture
there. That's quite a compliment. However, the funny thing is
that they took the most interesting thing about the picture, the wording,
off. But maybe that picture had the distinction of being used precisely
because it was so interesting, even though you now can't tell what was so
interesting about it looking at the video.
--Ted.
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