Joystick
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- Shortcode
:joystick:- Unicode
U+1F579- HTML
🕹- CSS
\1F579- JavaScript
"\u{1F579}"- URL
%F0%9F%95%B9%EF%B8%8F
What ๐น๏ธ means
An arcade joystick on a base. It means retro gaming, arcades, and old-school video games.
Nostalgia posts, arcade bars and pixel-art projects use it, often with ๐พ. It can also mean being in control, as in steering a project or a situation from behind the scenes.
Facts
Joystick ๐น๏ธ is an emoji in the activities category, under game. It is one of the early emoji from Japanese phones, standardized in Unicode 7.0 (2014). On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :joystick:. People also look for it with words like โgameโ, โvideoโ, or โvideogameโ.
Timeline
- 2014Added to the emoji standard (Unicode 7.0)
Design history
Google (Noto)
2017
2021
Twemoji (X, Discord)
2016
Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.