Google is quietly celebrating The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time with a hidden search easter egg — a time capsule harking back to the game's 1998 release on the N64, as spotted by Polygon. The nod lands amid a wave of renewed attention on the classic driven by its upcoming remake.

It is fitting company. Nintendo Life published a deep dive the same day cataloging the best Ocarina of Time references and easter eggs scattered across the wider Zelda series — a reminder of how thoroughly the game's DNA runs through everything that followed. Ocarina set the standard, and often the literal template, for virtually every action-adventure game of its era, and later Zelda entries have spent decades tipping their caps to it.

Between Google's hidden tribute and the fan community's archaeology of callbacks, the N64 landmark is enjoying a full-blown cultural moment nearly three decades on. For a game that defined 3D adventure design, the easter eggs keep multiplying — now even outside the games themselves.