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

Boing Boing reports that the famous "I am Error" line from Zelda II has been misunderstood for decades. The phrase, from the nineteen eighty-seven Nintendo game, was long assumed to be a mistranslation, lumped in with other notorious localization blunders like "All your base are belong to us." But the article reveals it was actually an intentional programmer's joke, not a translation error at all.

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