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I'm constantly amazed by the number of people that still refer to videogame controllers with the outdated terms "joystick" or worse, "paddle". I occasionally even catch myself using the term "gamepad", but normally when referring to USB controllers. Browsing some NES auctions last week, I discovered one I've never heard before: "handle". Is this a regional thing like the difference between "soda" and "pop", or is this just people that clearly don't know any better?
 
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Generally it's "Controller" for me, though sometimes I say "pad" or if it's an arcade stick, it's "stick" everyone I know usually goes wth the standard "Controller" too.
 
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I think I've heard "handle" before... for me, though, a joystick is a joystick, and anything else is a controller.
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Well, I usually call mine "fjernkontroller", or just "kontroller". In English I would just call them controllers. No more, no less.
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i call it a "controller" and a joystick is a "joystick" one thing i can't stand though, is when people call a tv remote either a "clicker" or "channel changer" or i can't think of anymore, but i've heard some pretty wacky ones. it's a "remote" damn it! :x
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Controller.
Some people also say "joypad" to them in allusion to "joystick".
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Over in the north, we get lot of tards who say "Paddle" I slap them as hard as I can. I call it a controller.
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Paddle isnt that bad i call it that from time to time i usually call it the Controller or with an i in it the controiler. it makes them feel smart.
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I call them controllers. Unless I'm playing my Atari 2600, then it's a joystick and paddle (because that's what they are).
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"Commander Campkill" wrote:
one thing i can't stand though, is when people call a tv remote either a "clicker" or "channel changer"
That annoys me too. Especially "clicker" :roll: I've always reffered to them as "a controller" or "controllers" maybe I have called them a "pad" once or twice.
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Controller... Although I also refer to it as "buttons" :P. ie: I was pushing buttons all weekend :D
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"logandbz" wrote:ie: I was pushing buttons all weekend :D BUTTON PUSHER!!!!!!!! oooooooooohhhhhhhhh burn! you need some ice for that?! :lol:
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"Commander Campkill" wrote:"logandbz" wrote:ie: I was pushing buttons all weekend :D BUTTON PUSHER!!!!!!!! oooooooooohhhhhhhhh burn! you need some ice for that?! : :lol: :lol: :lol: (goes to the freezer).... I guess I asked for that one :(
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"David" wrote:"Commander Campkill" wrote:
one thing i can't stand though, is when people call a tv remote either a "clicker" or "channel changer"
That annoys me too. Especially "clicker" : I periodically will call the remote a clicker. Partially because that's what my family always called it. And partially because it bugs the hell out of one of my friends.
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"Jenni" wrote:I call them controllers. Unless I'm playing my Atari 2600, then it's a joystick and paddle (because that's what they are). Yeah, to me, that is the only correct usage of "paddle": The pong PADDLES for the Atari. Is that where that originates from? How did paddle stick around for so long?
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I just call it "the controller". Never felt the need to call it anything different.
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Controller. Or maybe pad. Or joystick if, you know, it actually is a joystick.
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"ZombieHunterX" wrote:Yeah, to me, that is the only correct usage of "paddle": The pong PADDLES for the Atari. Is that where that originates from? How did paddle stick around for so long? because EVERYONE has played Pong :lol:
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I call my controller Carlton.
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