Google has shipped a new Easter egg for The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, and it's a time machine in more ways than one. Trigger it and the search engine transforms into its 1998-era presentation — the year Ocarina of Time launched on the Nintendo 64 — with results rendered as the plain blue links of the early internet.
The nostalgia play is a clever match of subject and format. Ocarina of Time is itself a game about hopping between two eras, and the throwback search page drops users into the web as it looked when Link first stepped onto Hyrule Field in 3D.
Google has a long track record of gaming-themed surprises. As Nintendo Life notes, past collaborations have included an inkable results screen for Splatoon 3, multiple Pokemon tie-ins, and even a Katamari-themed stunt that let users roll up the page.
The timing is no accident: Ocarina of Time is back in the conversation thanks to Nintendo's new remake, making the original's 1998 debut a fresh reference point for a new generation of players. For everyone else, it's a free hit of late-'90s internet — no dial-up modem required.

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