The "🎮" emote, also known as the "Video Game" emote, is a small icon of a video game controller. It is commonly used in online conversations and social media posts to indicate that someone is playing or talking about video games.

The Video Game emoji depicts a controller used to play video games. It is commonly used to represent gaming and gamers. It is often used with the Joystick emoji and/or the Television emoji.

The video game emoji 🎮 depicts a video game controller, often associated with console gaming. The emoji was added to Unicode in 2010 and can be used to represent video games or gaming culture. It can also be used more generally to represent leisure time or entertainment.

🎮 Meaning: A typical black video game controller with two handles, a pair of similar button hubs at the top, a tiny red button in between, and two smaller but equally round buttons below the described design. The 🎮 Video Game emoji represents gaming and the gamer, of course.

A video game emoji, shown on major platforms as a console gamepad with D-pad, joysticks, and buttons. Video Game was approved as part of Unicode 6.0 in 2010 and added to Emoji 1.0 in 2015.