Pokémon GO: Before the game, it was a Google April Fool’s Joke

Pokémon GO: Before the mania, there was the Google April’s Fool joke.
Pokémon GO might have taken over the world, but the idea of going around the world to catch Pokémons was first part of an Google April Fool’s joke.
In April 2014, one of Google’s pranks for April Fool’s was a ‘Pokemon style’ quest via Google Maps. The Google blogpost is still live, and it talks of how Google has worked with “Pokémon and Nintendo to develop