In honour of its blossoming Geek Week, YouTube has set custom searches that produce unusual results, including unlocking arcade game Missile Command and giving the site an ASCII layout.

Simply type these queries into the search bar for appropriately geeky results:

1. ‘/ Geek Week’

Presents users with a search results page in ASCII format, displaying all the latest Geek Week videos that have been uploaded.


2. ‘1980’

Type this in after playing any video and it launches Atari’s classic 1980 game Missile Command, putting you in control of gun turrets and tasking you with protecting the video below – which cracks if you are terrible at it (like us).



3. ‘Use the force, Luke’

Puts a wavy effect on the results, which periodically fly around the screen.

4. ‘Fibonacci’

Arranges the results in a tiled effect in accordance with the mathematical sequence of the same name.

5. ‘Beam me up, Scotty’

Echoes the classic Star Trek effect by ‘beaming’ the videos onto the results page.

YouTube’s Geek Week, which has seen Knightmare remakes and Breaking Bad musicals, run August 4 – 10.

On Wednesday, it added a small ‘pow’ button on all Geek Week videos. When pushed it made the videos appear as if in a hand drawn comic book.