The video game emoji shows a controller which could be used on a gaming console; the controller features different colour buttons, a d-pad and analogue sticks for movement.
The video game emoji was introduced in 2010 and released as part of the Unicode 11.0 standard. This emoji can be found under the activities category. Because the video game emoji has been around for quite some time, it should display correctly in the majority of operating systems.

Here you'll find a range of emojis on how they will look using different operating systems. Each company will design an emoji according to their own style. Here we have listed the most popular platforms around to see how the emoji will look on their screens.

Short Codes:

:video_game:

Hex Code:

🎮

Decimal Code:

🎮

Punycode:

xn--fl8h

URL Escape Code:

%F0%9F%8E%AE

JavaScript & JSON:

\ud83c\udfae

CSS Code:

content: '\01F3AE';