“Just 3 days before the deadline, I discovered something horrible…
A really fun 2021 story by Fabien Sanglard at the perfect-for-me intersection of bugs and typography.
In 1991, just days before the final deadlines, Akira Nishitani, one of the graphic designers of the absolutely seminal arcade game Street Fighter II realized they misspelled the world “Warrior” as “Warrier.”
The typo was there for months and no one noticed. But the moment it was noticed, the graphic ROMs were already burned and impossible to change, and the code was due in three days.
What would you do? I’ll let you click through to read, but I really enjoyed this short story.