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bryan1945:

--- Quote from: hunky_artist on August 13, 2004, 10:30:23 am ---about the joystick ont he left comment. That's how I've always played games, and thats how iill be makin gmy cabinet... but what about left handed players... wouldnt the prefer it that way?

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As a left hander, no.  Played too many games as a youngin' with the stick on the left.
Laurent:


The 2nd player on this custom build cabinet is also inverted (maybe to adapt left-handed player); I never saw this on an official arcade thought.
paigeoliver:
Very, very, very few original machines were "joystick on right".

Starhawk
Gorf cocktail
Rally-X cocktail

Those are the only ones I can recall off the top of my head, but the grand total probably isn't more than ten games.

Lots of early games were ambidextrous and had the buttons on both sides, but 2 player games almost universally put the joystick on the left of the buttons, as did every console Nes and up.
lkench:

--- Quote from: bryan1945 on August 13, 2004, 02:54:01 pm ---
--- Quote from: hunky_artist on August 13, 2004, 10:30:23 am ---about the joystick ont he left comment. That's how I've always played games, and thats how iill be makin gmy cabinet... but what about left handed players... wouldnt the prefer it that way?

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As a left hander, no.  Played too many games as a youngin' with the stick on the left.

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I agree - I'm left-handed as well, but couldn't image moving the stick with my right hand.  Course I never got the hang of using a mouse with my left hand either  :P
mahuti:
Same exact comments as above.

I can't make drawings in Illustrator with the mouse in my left hand, but I sure can with a stylus.

Never got the hang of the buttons on the left, either. Moreso than righties, us lefties are usually naturally a bit ambidextrous anyway... whether it's out of necessity or genetics, who knows, but that's the case.
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