Everyone assumed "I am Error" was broken English from a rushed NES translation. The character's name is Error, and Nintendo UK later ran the line on its 404 page.
"I am Error" was never a mistranslation — it was a programmer's jokeEarly 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…boingboing.net