Spectacle Rock

In the Legend of Zelda video games, Spectacle Rock is a spectacle-shaped rock. It is found on Death Mountain, and is a useful landmark.

Appearances
In the original The Legend of Zelda, Spectacle Rock was the location of Ganon's lair, Level 9, in the first quest, found by bombing an entrance in the rock itself.

In Zelda II: The Adventure of Link, Spectacle Rock was found in the southwestern region of Hyrule, and contained a hammer and a secret Magic Container (in a hidden cave opened by using said hammer).

In The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past, this rock, at the top of Death Mountain, is somehow an entrance to the Tower of Hera. To get past the rock, the player must go into the Dark World. Once there, the player uses the Magic Mirror on the spectacle-shaped area to get to the top of the rock. At the top, the final step is to jump off the side that is facing the tower.

In The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening, an identical formation once again served as an obligatory route to the mountaintop. However, this Spectacle Rock must be a different one as it is on Koholint Island.

In The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, there are two pillars in the Death Mountain Crater, and speculation went around if this, too, was an identical of Spectacle Rock. One of the pillars has a heart piece located on the top, which can be accessed with the Magic Beans/Plant. Behind the rocks is the entrance to the Fire Temple. In BS Zelda: Kodai no Sekiban, it was the exit to the eighth dungeon and the only way to the top of Death Mountain.

In The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker, Spectacle Rock (the summit of Death Mountain) was an island of the flooded Hyrulean World, known as Spectacle Island. The Great Sea, the setting in The Wind Waker, is the result of the flooding of Hyrule and the top of the mountain is the only surviving landmark of that area.