In the video game The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening, Tarin is the father of Marin. At the beginning of the game, Tarin gives Link his shield when he wakes up from his state of temporary unconsciousness. He is often seen getting himself into wacky situations on his expeditions into Koholint Island's forests. Throughout the course of the game, he has a hallucinatory vision of himself as a mischievous raccoon who hides important items from Link and later on gets stung by bees while poking at their honeycomb with a stick. He can sometimes be found in bed at his house in Mabe Village recuperating from these events shortly after they occur. Near the end of the game you see a scene of him holding yet another mushroom/toadstool, indicating he certainly never learns anything from his (mis)adventures!

A Tarin-like character appears in The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time under the name Talon.