Zelda’s Link is Google Maps’ latest Easter egg

Link mapsIt’s dangerous to go to that new antique store in that part of town you never go to alone! Take this.

Link, the hero from publisher Nintendo’s The Legend of Zelda series, is the latest video game Easter egg buried in a Google product. If you boot up Google Maps on your browser, you’ll see that standard yellow “street view” icon now has a sword and is wearing Link’s famous green outfit. You can grab this Link, drop him on any road, and see him trot around the map. This is part of Nintendo’s attempts to market Twilight Princess HD, a rerelease of a classic Wii and GameCube game that is out today for the Wii U (read our review). This gaming Easter egg is just one of a dozen that you can find across Google websites, and it is part of a few that are explicitly related to video games.

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