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  2. Joystick - Wikipedia

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    A variation of the joystick is the rotary joystick. It is a type of joystick-knob hybrid, where the joystick can be moved in various direction while at the same time being able to rotate the joystick. It is mainly used in arcade shoot 'em up games, to control both the player's eight-directional movement and the gun's 360-degree direction.

  3. Game controller - Wikipedia

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    A dual-joystick controller for the original PlayStation An arcade style controller for the Sega Dreamcast. A joystick is a peripheral that consists of a handheld stick that can be tilted around either of two axes and (sometimes) twisted around a third. The joystick is often used for flight simulators.

  4. Analog stick - Wikipedia

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    Cromemco JS-1 analog joystick, the first known for microcomputers. Shortly after the introduction of the first microcomputers, Cromemco introduced a S-100 bus card containing an analog-to-digital converter, and shortly after, a card with two of these and an associated analog joystick, the JS-1. This is the first known example of such a device ...

  5. Arcade controller - Wikipedia

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    A typical joystick is a digital input device that registers movement according to the range of motion that it is designed to detect. Most modern joysticks have an 8-way configuration, allowing for movement in the cardinal directions and the diagonals.

  6. PlayStation controller - Wikipedia

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    In an interview with Teiyu Goto, designer of the original PlayStation controller, he explained what the symbols mean: the circle and cross represent "yes" and "no", respectively (as common in Japanese culture, which explains their common use as "confirm" and "cancel" in most Japanese PlayStation games, placed similarly to the A and B buttons on ...

  7. Joy-Con - Wikipedia

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    On January 16, 2025, when the Nintendo Switch 2 was confirmed by Nintendo, a new Joy-Con color palette was also revealed. The new Joy-Con appear to be black, having an inner ring around the joystick, and side, sporting the original red and blue colors, on the right and left controllers respectively.

  8. Pointing device - Wikipedia

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    a joystick is an indirect, relative, elastic, rate-control, translational input device with two degrees of freedom (x, y angle) and two states (tracked, dragging). a Wiimote is an indirect , relative , elastic , rate-control , translational input device with six degrees of freedom (x, y, z orientation and x, y, z position) and two or three ...

  9. Nintendo 64 controller - Wikipedia

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    That works assuming the hands are off the joystick when the Nintendo 64 is powered on. The joystick can also be recalibrated while the Nintendo 64 is on, by pressing L+R+START to indicate that the current position of the joystick is the center position.