Spinner Mouse Game Controller If you ever tried to play the arcade version of Arkanoid on an emulator, you may have found the game impossibly hard. And by that I mean impossible. That's because the game was designed to be played with a rotary controller (called a "spinner" or "dial"), not a joystick. With a spinner, you're directly moving the paddle – spaceship – not pushing it. In most arcade emulators – lr-fbneo and lr-mame2003-plus are my current choices – you can use a mouse instead. As the ...