Error

"I am Error."-Error 

There is a phrase that has become a wide spread internet meme. It's a fairly simple meme, but it is still an interesting and popular one. It goes, "I am Error." which appeared in the Legend of Zelda 2. Error himself was a very minor character who didn't play much of a role in the game, and yet he has attained internet fame.

When fans originally saw this piece of dialogue they weren't quite sure what to think about it. Some believed that there was a bug in the programming that didn't allow the name to be properly rendered and produced an error message.

There is also another theory about Error. In another town in the game there is another character, who looks very similar to Error, named Bagu. The interesting thing about the word Bagu is how in Japanese it means bug. So it is thought that when Nintendo were making this game they decided to reference errors and bugs in programming. 

It's hard to tell what Nintendo were doing when they created Error. Was it an error in the game coding that presented an error message in the dialogue box? Or, was it the case that Nintendo referenced bugs and errors in coding? Nintendo has not commented on this and Miyamoto hasn't been very helpful either. We may never know the truth about Error for years to come, but until we know we have the theories.

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