Paddle

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What Wikipedia says

A paddle is a game controller with a round wheel or dial and one or more fire buttons, where the wheel is typically used to control movement of the player object along one axis of the video screen. A paddle controller rotates through a fixed arc (usually about 330 degrees); it has a stop at each end.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article “Paddle (game controller)”, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Read the article on Wikipedia

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