Joystick Emoji
Activities
A classic, retro-style joystick featuring a red ball-topped handle mounted on a grey base with two fire buttons. It captures the look of arcade controllers from the early days of home gaming consoles.
Usage Context
Widely used to discuss gaming culture, video game culture, or the act of playing a digital game. It serves as a nostalgic shorthand for arcades, retro tech, and gaming setups, often paired with the 🎮 controller emoji to signify a gaming session.
History
The joystick was added to the Unicode standard in 2010. It pays homage to the hardware that defined the golden age of arcade gaming in the 1980s, bridging the gap between early mechanical game inputs and modern digital interfaces.
Details
Glyph
🕹
Unicode
U+1F579
Shortcode
:emoji_u1f579:
HTML Entity
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Specifications
Vendor Google
Category Activities
Subcategory game
Unicode Version 6.0
Emoji Version 1.0
License CC-BY 4.0
Google Noto License
Emoji graphics by Twitter/X, licensed under CC-BY 4.0
Noto Color Emoji graphics are copyrighted by Google Inc. and licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0. Font files may also be subject to the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1.
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