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Sunday Comics: Dead Island The undisputed Internet-age leader in April Fools’ hoaxes gets a one-day head start on its latest gag — a brilliant announcement video for “Google Maps 8-Bit” a port of the popular, well, map service to the Nintendo Entertainment System/Famicon.
Google recently updated Google Maps with a full screen street view. They also took the time to update the street view of their own building. Guess which game character someone found lurking outside Google HQ?
Capital Wasteland/A survivalist nightmare/Google Maps can help.
Want to go to Akihabara and bask in the glory of millions of tons of video games, capsule toys, manga and electronics? Probably not if you’re paying for the plane ticket over there. Fortunately, with the awesome power of Google Maps and Street View, you can scoot around Akiba virtually, checking out all the good game shops — their facades anyway.
To complete the illusion, you can import stuff from Play-Asia or NCS while you browse. It won’t have the same sort of instant gratification, but at least you’ll know where Super Potato is, unlike me, who has never been able to find the goddamn place whenever I go to Electric Town.
Akihabara Street View [Google Maps via Gizmodo]
Google Maps is pretty great, don’t get me wrong, but it’s lacking…something. Like interactivity. Interactivity like a free, hidden flight simulator. Wait. What’s that, internet? Such a thing exists? Wonderful. Google Map’s flight sim is accessible by running Google Maps then hitting Ctrl+Alt+A (or Command+Option+A for Mac users). Do that and you can choose between two planes (F-16 or SR22), then fly anywhere on Google Maps. Which is…anywhere. Good stuff! Now all we need is someone to work out a way you can hook this thing up for multiplayer and we’ll never have to pay for a game again. Google Earth’s Hidden Surprise: A Flight Simulator [Tech Crunch, via Boing Boing]
