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"I am Error" was never a mistranslation — it was a programmer's joke

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"I am Error" was never a mistranslation — it was a programmer's joke
I am Error — Evan-Amos / Public domain (Wikimedia Commons)

Early in Zelda II: The Adventure of Link (1987), the player walks into a house in the town of Ruto, where a bearded man in a purple tunic announces: "I am Error." For decades, gamers filed it alongside "All your base are belong to us" as botched translation. — Read the rest

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