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 sim]s of the day, the sticks may have been nice. For [Commando] on [Commodore 64|C64], you need something more appropriate to get to the proper mood. =)
The mechanics used [microswitch]es, 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.)