joystick

A device used to control a character in a videogame. Distinguished from the more generic game controller tag by the presence of an obvious stick, e.g. a fightstick, a flightstick, a hand-stick as found on most arcade videogames, or analog thumbsticks as found on the controllers for home consoles such as Nintendo 64, Playstation 2/Playstation 3 or Xbox 360.

A game controller for home console, without sticks as described above, would be a gamepad.

Also used to control actual vehicles such as aircraft, but also occasionally used in pairs for armored land vehicles.

This tag implicates controller (learn more).

The following tags implicate this tag: arcade_stick (learn more).