8 Video Game "Mistakes" That Were Totally Intentional - Commenter Edition

4. I Am Error - Zelda II: The Adventure Of Link

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It's not often that a bug or a glitch will seemingly announce itself to the player with some onscreen text, but many gamers thought that had happened when - in the second ever Zelda game, Zelda II: The Adventure Of Link - they came across an NPC who spoke the line of dialogue "I am error".

In actual fact, the word "Error" should begin with a capital "E", because it's not an error at all - it's the NPC's name.

On a separate occasion, players will encounter a similar-looking NPC who says the line "Bagu is my name. Show my note to river man." In Japanese, "Bagu" means "bug", meaning that the game contains two NPCs with glitch-related names. But neither instance is actually a glitch.

It seems like it was just a designer who wanted to have some fun with character names, and so chose an odd pair of monikers. After all, why not?

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