Probably the weirdest practical joystick ever built.
Terminator was shaped exactly like a fragmentating hand grenade.
The wire to the computer (with a standard-of-the-day Atari-joystick 9-pin D-connector, used in most 8- and 16-bit computers) came out from the "bottom" of the grenade, and the top that had the pin and everything had a short metal stick, used as the 8-way controller. The "handle" acted as the fire button.
The reasons for its coolness:
- For a flight sims of the day, the sticks may have been nice. For Commando on C64, you need something more appropriate to get to the proper mood. =)
- The mechanics used microswitches, which meant the stick was very durable (beated most cheap leaf switch-based designs).
Some people didn't like the stick part because it was somewhat short, though.
I don't know the manufacturer. A review of many, many joysticks in MikroBitti in 1989 said it was made in Denmark - the review also said that this sort of joysticks may be difficult to transport in airplanes...
(TAC-2 remains my favorite C64 joystick, though.)