Remember the "All Your Base" Internet meme back in 2001 or so?
It might have been the first of the really viral memes that now come and go, and have been tapped by advertisers, some more successfully than others!
If you're not sure you know what this is all about, a short history lesson:
There was a video game called "Zero Wing" and the US release for the Sega Genesis console had an introduction sequence with amusingly poor English. This got picked up on and parodied in various discussion boards, then people started Photoshopping the words into all sorts of settings, and then a techno-beat Flash animation came out and put it all together.
This is how it went:
In A.D. 2101
War was beginning.
Captain: What happen ?
Operator: 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 cache 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
The only connection to this cache is that it's on a Zig of the Zig-Zag!
Now, to find the first waypoint, a small black-coated Sistema under the overhang of a big rock, you'll need to click the image below and download and watch the Flash animation (1.3MB)
Hidden in there are the coordinates you need...
GZ is an ammo can in some rocks, with a view of the valley and over the city (rather like the other ones along the road, but at a slightly lower angle!)
The terrain will probably go up at about half a point a year as the vegetation grows back after a fire went through in early 2007.
vvv Click this image for the Flash file vvv
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