Editing Zero Wing (section)

== Legacy ==
''Zero Wing'' was the last side-scrolling shoot 'em up title to be developed by Toaplan, as the developers believed they did not know how to make a side-scrolling shooter interesting, despite positive reception from players.<ref name="STGv4a"/> 

''Zero Wing'' is one of the most widely-known examples of poor linguistic translation in video games.<ref name="Eyman2">{{Cite book |last1=Eyman |first1=Douglas |title=Games & Play in Chinese & Sinophone Cultures |last2=Eyman |first2=Douglas |last3=Sun |first3=Hongmei |date=2024 |publisher=[[University of Washington Press]] |isbn=9780295752402 |editor-last=Guo |editor-first=Li |location=Seattle, WA |chapter=Translation and Chinese Culture in Video Games |editor-last2=Eyman |editor-first2=Douglas |editor-last3=Sun |editor-first3=Hongmei}}</ref>{{Rp|pages=249-250}} Translations were handled internally by the design team, not a professional translator.<ref name="Eyman2" />{{Rp|page=250}} In 1999, the introduction cutscene for the Sega Mega Drive version of ''Zero Wing'' was re-discovered, culminating in the wildly popular "[[All your base are belong to us]]" Internet meme.<ref name="DOG" /><ref>{{cite web|last=Deci|first=T.J.|url=http://www.allgame.com/game.php?id=16227|title=Zero Wing [European] (Sega Genesis) - Overview|work=[[AllGame]]|publisher=[[All Media Network]]|date=1998|access-date=2020-05-20|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141114220006/http://www.allgame.com/game.php?id=16227|archive-date=2014-11-14|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|last=Benner|first=Jeffrey|url=https://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/news/2001/02/42009|title=When Gamer Humor Attacks|magazine=[[Wired (magazine)|Wired]]|publisher=[[Condé Nast Publications]]|date=28 August 2008|access-date=2009-10-21|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090908011236/http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/news/2001/02/42009|archive-date=2009-09-08|url-status=dead}}</ref> 

''Zero Wing'' is also of interest in the field of translation studies in the context of its multiple endings.<ref name="Eyman2" />{{Rp|page=250}} As noted by [[Clyde Mandelin]], who reverse engineered the original game, while the English-language version had three different post-credit endings, the Japanese version had thirty-five.<ref name="Eyman2" />{{Rp|page=250}} Many of those endings referenced then-current Japanese popular culture in ways that would have been hard to translate across cultures, and suggests that the text was written by someone who grew up in the 1960s or 1970s.<ref name="Eyman2" />{{Rp|page=250}} 

In more recent years, the rights to ''Zero Wing'' and many other [[Intellectual property|IP]]s from Toaplan are now owned by Tatsujin, a company named after ''Truxton''{{'}}s Japanese title that was founded in [[2017 in video games|2017]] by former Toaplan employee Masahiro Yuge, and is part of [[Embracer Group]] since 2022.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://tatsujin.tokyo/custom.html|title=ライセンス事業|publisher=TATSUJIN Co., Ltd.|date=2019|access-date=2020-05-19|language=ja|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181225203847/http://tatsujin.tokyo/custom.html|archive-date=2018-12-25|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Bravo|first=Roberto|url=https://www.gamercafe.cl/2018/09/12/nueva-compania-tatsujin-asegura-tener-gran-parte-de-las-ips-de-la-extinta-toaplan/|title=Nueva compañía "Tatsujin" asegura tener gran parte de las IPs de la extinta Toaplan|publisher=Gamercafe|date=12 September 2018|access-date=2020-05-19|language=es|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191021030437/https://www.gamercafe.cl/2018/09/12/nueva-compania-tatsujin-asegura-tener-gran-parte-de-las-ips-de-la-extinta-toaplan/|archive-date=2019-10-21|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://exa.ac/en/editors/tatsujin/|title=Tatsujin|publisher=exA-Arcadia|date=2019|access-date=2020-05-19|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191021030706/https://exa.ac/en/editors/tatsujin/?v=a99877f71bd9|archive-date=2019-10-21|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Bravo|first=Roberto|url=https://www.gamercafe.cl/2019/01/25/tatsujin-los-duenos-de-toaplan-anuncian-que-estan-trabajando-para-exa-arcadia/|title=Tatsujin, los dueños de Toaplan, anuncian que están trabajando para exA-Arcadia|newspaper=Gamercafe|date=25 January 2019|access-date=2020-05-19|language=es|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191021031057/https://www.gamercafe.cl/2019/01/25/tatsujin-los-duenos-de-toaplan-anuncian-que-estan-trabajando-para-exa-arcadia/|archive-date=2019-10-21|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.4gamer.net/games/408/G040821/20190125146/|title=［JAEPO2019］TATSUJINやナツメアタリの参入が発表されたexA-Arcadia。出展コーナーの模様を紹介|work=[[4Gamer.net]]|publisher=Aetas Inc.|date=26 January 2019|access-date=2020-05-19|language=ja|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191021031252/https://www.4gamer.net/games/408/G040821/20190125146/|archive-date=2019-10-21|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Embracer Group Announces the 11[th] Operating Group: Embracer Freemode |url=https://embracer.com/releases/embracer-group-announces-the-11th-operating-group-embracer-freemode/ |access-date=2025-02-14 |website=Embracer Group |language=en-US}}</ref>