Joystick in a sentence as a noun

Had the other first officer pushed his joystick forward, would the plane begin to dive?

He had purchased it from a co-worker of his, along with a bunch of games on floppy disks and cartridges, a joystick, and a KoalaPad.

And the Steam controller will probably leave both joystick users and mouse users somehow frustrated because it tries to be both at the same time.

Awesome, awesome project, but for the purist please keep in mind that 8-direction joysticks can be a bit tricky on games that were built for a 4-direction joystick.

It's interesting that First Officer Bonin is able to doom the plane by continuing to hold back on his joystick, even when that action isn't having positive results.

I remember creating an interrupt subroutine in assembly on my commodore 64 that listened to the push button on the joystick and quickly changed the background colors on the screen.

I assume that one joystick has precedence over the other...It seems dangerous to have two joysticks, both capable of controlling the plane, that have no physical or simulated physical link.

"Apps" had been around for years on the "smartphones" of yesteryear, be it J2ME, Windows Mobile, Blackberry, etc. They were a clunky mess, however, and you had to pull out a stylus or fuddle around with a tiny joystick to use them.

The inverted acceleration-style interface was designed to accomodate a joystick.

Joystick definitions

noun

a lever used by a pilot to control the ailerons and elevators of an airplane

See also: stick

noun

a manual control consisting of a vertical handle that can move freely in two directions; used as an input device to computers or to devices controlled by computers