game controller
A device used to provide input to a computer or video game. Normally this refers to a controller that is separate from the main machine, connected by wire or wirelessly, as opposed to the controls built into a handheld portable game machine such as Game Boy or Nintendo DS. Examples of game controllers may include gamepad, joystick (which should really not be confused with gamepad), arcade stick, flightstick, steering wheel, lightgun, the Microsoft Kinect for Xbox 360, and many, many more.
See Wikipedia definition for more details.
See also
- Dreamcast controller
- DualSense
- DualShock
- Famicom gamepad
- GameCube controller
- Joy-Con
- Nintendo 64 controller
- Nintendo Switch Pro Controller
- Playstation controller
- Super Famicom gamepad
- Wii remote
- Wii U GamePad
- Xbox controller
This tag implicates controller (learn more).
The following tags implicate this tag: arcade_stick, gamepad, holding_game_controller, and wii_remote (learn more).
