Google, never a company afraid to innovate, has decided to take it’s popular Maps site forward into the past, recreating those wonderful days when we were all playing King’s Quest on CGA monitors:
That, of course, was their Arpil Fool’s joke. Hah! š
Google often annoys the heck out of me as a company, but they do have a pretty good sense of humor.
PS: Speaking of King’s Quest, I really miss Sierra’s style of computer games.
I was looking up directions on Sunday and I was like, “Oh come on, ANOTHER beta version of some app I’ll never use? Come on, Google.” I didn’t actually find out it was part of their annual prank until later on – well done, guys.
They’re tricky that way. š