"I am Error" was never a mistranslation — it was a programmer's joke
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. The Japanese original reads “My name is Error...” —…
