Sure, it's a little early to call winners, but not many tech companies will be able to top Google's genuinely clever, fun, and novel approach to April Fools Day 2012. Any other gag will seem a little ...

Google has announced that its popular Maps tool will soon be available in 8-bit form for the NES. Google has announced that its popular Maps tool will soon be available in 8-bit form for the NES. is a ...

Nearly a decade ago, Google published a video for April Fool's Day that showed an 8-bit version of Google Maps made for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES). That, of course, was a joke, but it ...

Almost a decade before the world finally realized how tedious April Fool’s Day pranks are, Google revealed a farcical 8-bit port of Google Maps for the iconic Nintendo Entertainment System. The prank ...

I'm not really a fan of pranking on April Fools Day. There have been plenty of attempts in the gaming industry to pull off believability over the years, some amusing and some that just fell flat. This ...

Legendary prankster Google is out with some early April Fools’ tomfoolery ahead of schedule, teasing nostalgic gamers with an 8-bit version of its near-ubiquitous Maps application. “In our pursuit of ...

A hacker has ported all of Google Maps to a modded Nintendo Entertainment System. The final product is an 8-bit map of the world. The hacker used several other NES/map mods as a launching point.

Google offers its Maps product on a huge variety of different systems, but the one that it has so far neglected is the hugely popular Nintendo Entertainment System. Finally, the search giant has ...

How big is the Lego ‘Legend of Zelda’ NES Hyrule map? The Lego master uploaded a video to YouTube detailing some of the numbers behind the massive Lego Legend of Zelda Hyrule map build. In the video ...

As per a news story by Kotaku, a "Zelda" fan decided to use a whopping 25,000 Lego blocks in order to recreate the original map from the Nintendo Entertainment System "Legend of Zelda." It took the ...