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By Pixel Pilot, Gaming Nostalgia Desk

What does it mean? Is it a cheat code? A glitch? A dare?

We broke it down. First, a quick history lesson. In Star Fox for the SNES, Peppy Hare famously instructs Fox McCloud: “Do a barrel roll!” (Technically, what Fox performs is an aileron roll, but internet pedantry has never stopped a good meme.)

That is, until someone asked: What if we spin 20 times? No official Google command triggers 20 consecutive barrel rolls. But that hasn’t stopped users from trying to force it.

If you typed “do a barrel roll” into Google right now, you already know what happens: the screen spins 360 degrees, a tiny nod to the 1993 space shooter Star Fox . But a new command has been quietly circulating on gaming forums and meme pages: