5 Amusing Easter Eggs Hidden Within Google Services

By Alex Antliff /

2. Do A Barrel Roll

Starfox, a series that initially debuted on the SNES (Super Famicom) in 1993, is one of Nintendo€™s secondary games franchises. It has sadly yet to debut on either the Wii or Wii U, with the last entry in the series being a 2006 DS game. Perhaps its most well-known iteration is Starfox 64, in which supporting character Peppy Hare, who dispenses advice throughout the game, is notorious for his repeated instruction to €˜do a barrel roll€™, a manoeuvre that can be performed by pressing either the Z or R buttons on the Nintendo 64 controller twice in quick succession. Google integrated the move into its search function in late 2011. Typing either €˜do a barrel roll€™ or €˜z or r twice€™ will cause the site to perform a three hundred and sixty degree rotation before presenting its search results, as the following image depicts.