Video game
Your device cannot show this emoji yet. It still copies, and newer phones will show it.
- Shortcode
:video_game:- Unicode
U+1F3AE- HTML
🎮- CSS
\1F3AE- JavaScript
"\u{1F3AE}"- URL
%F0%9F%8E%AE
What ๐ฎ means
Controller in hand: video games, gaming sessions and gamer culture.
"๐ฎ tonight?" is an invite to play. Gamers put it in bios, stream titles and server names, and it fits casual and serious play alike.
๐น๏ธ is the retro arcade joystick; ๐ฎ reads as modern consoles.
Facts
Video game ๐ฎ is an emoji in the activities category, under game. It is one of the early emoji from Japanese phones, standardized in Unicode 6.0 (2010). On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :video_game:. People also look for it with words like โcontrollerโ, โentertainmentโ, โgameโ, or โvideoโ.
Timeline
- 2010Added to the emoji standard (Unicode 6.0)
Design history
Google (Noto)
2015
2017
2021
Twemoji (X, Discord)
2014
2016
2018
Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.