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I'm left handed and wouldn't think of holding onto the joystick with my right hand and pressing the buttons with my left.
I never understood it. To me, most games are set up for left handed people.
Play with your left and press the buttons with your right...except for Tron, Tempest, Centipede etc with the button on the left side.
I eat, throw, write, punch and yes, control the joystick on a game with my LEFT hand because I'm left handed and it's the hand with the coordination needeed for control.... and I push the jump button on my donkey kong with my right....
Don't you right handers hate that setup?
It's perfect for left handed people....
I'm left handed and wouldn't think of holding onto the joystick with my right hand and pressing the buttons with my left.
I never understood it. To me, most games are set up for left handed people.
Play with your left and press the buttons with your right...except for Tron, Tempest, Centipede etc with the button on the left side.
I'm ambidextrous but my mouse is on the left side. I wish the buttons on it were reversed.
I'm left handed. Being left handed, in general, has nothing to do with button layout. Since you 'learn' how to play games, it's just as easy to learn to play it right handed as it is left handed.
Why anybody (even left handed people) would put all the buttons backwards is beyond me.
This is what I always find funny when this discussion comes up. People think joystick on left, buttons on right is a right handed set up but in actuallity it is a left handed set up. Directional controls are more important and require greater hand eye coordination than button pushes.
I agree in theory, but your PS3 and Xbox gamepads have you generally doing motion with your left thumb and buttons with the right. Interestingly though, Atari 2600 - most of my friends and me used the stick with the right hand and button with the left; in fact the stick is geared toward that model, but Nintendo came out with the first game pad in the reverse configuration. Which! seems to agree with many arcade games that came before the NES!