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Midway removed the ERMACS listing from the game's fifth and final update in March 1993, but speculation about the character intensified after Electronic Gaming Monthly (EGM) published a submitted screenshot from the first Mortal Kombat game and a letter from 'Tony Casey' that claimed he had played against a red ninja named Ermac and taken a Polaroid of the screen as evidence. However, when Boon added the hidden character Reptile into the third revision, ERMACS was listed on the menu below the counters 'Reptile Appearances' and 'Reptile Battles', which provoked players into searching for a second secret character called Ermac. In early revisions of the game, it appeared on the audits screen beneath a counter titled ' Shang Tsung Beaten' (in reference to the game's final boss fight). It was spelled as ERMACS-a pluralized contraction of error macro-as in the number of times the program would execute.

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This practice had been employed by series developer Midway Games since their 1990 arcade release Smash TV. In the diagnostics menu of the 1992 original Mortal Kombat game, an audits screen displayed a macro that had been created by Mortal Kombat co-creator and programmer Ed Boon in order to catch coding errors. He has received positive reception for his special abilities and Fatality finishing moves, while his origins are considered among the most memorable legends of video gaming. Although the rumors were false, growing interest led to him becoming an official character.Д®rmac has appeared in other Mortal Kombat media, including the 1996 animated series Mortal Kombat: Defenders of the Realm and the 2011 web series Mortal Kombat: Legacy. His name was derived from a diagnostics menu in the first game that displayed the text 'error macro' as ERMACS. The character originated from rumors alleging he appeared as a glitch in the original 1992 game, which were perpetuated by video game magazine Electronic Gaming Monthly ( EGM). Debuting as an unlockable character in Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 (1995), he is an amalgam of the souls of deceased warriors and possesses telekinetic abilities.

Ermac is a fictional character in the Mortal Kombat fighting game franchise by Midway Games and NetherRealm Studios.

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