ms. pacman....right or left handed

[notaburger]

undoubtedly this has been answered before but i'm drunk and too lazy to do a search 
do you guys/gals use your right or left hand to play ms. pacman
for one reason, i use my right hand
after a crazy good round the other night at the local theater my hand was killing me
i just find it weird that i can't play it with my left hand, yet i play every other arcade game with it

my girl also uses her right hand (we are both right handed)

[fjl]

I'm right handed but have better dexterity with my left hand using a joystick for movement. My right hand is better at button presses. I tried switching it and I can't play right.
 

[NoOne=NBA=]

The general consensus on this was that right-handed people play games with joysticks only with their right hand, but games with a joystick and buttons with their left hand.
The best explanation was that they prefer to use their most coordinated hand for the most difficult task.

Most of the early games had buttons on both sides, so you could choose which hand to play with.
That went out when the fighting game conversions took over, and there wasn't room for buttons on both sides of the joystick.

[FrizzleFried]

I usually use a stick with my left hand regardless of the number of buttons.  I use a spinner with my right hand and a trackball with my right hand.  Sometimes I will play joystick only games with my right,  but usually it is my left.

[vintagegamer]

I'm a righty and use my right-hand when playing my Ms Pac Man at home.

VINTAGEGAMER

[deadkenndys1105]

I use my right hand for trackballs, spinner, or any game that only needs one hand.  I left hand is good with buttons because I play a lot of millipede.

[Apollo]

left hand for joystick games (unless it's robotron or karate champ or something) and right hand for spinner. Trackball games are a little different, left hand for something like centipede and right hand for golf or bowling games.

[Jeff AMN]

I always use my left hand for joysticks. It's burned into my muscle memory and I can't change that.

[notaburger]

I guess I never thought about trackball games, but for bowling games, I use two hands (actually, just my thumbs)

i've only played golen tee a few times, but  I think I used my palm for that game

centipede, it just depends on the unit, i'm pretty comfortable playing it either way so i'll just play it however it's wired up

[Crowquill]

Most of the early games had buttons on both sides, so you could choose which hand to play with.
That went out when the fighting game conversions took over, and there wasn't room for buttons on both sides of the joystick.

Actually it pre-dates the fighting games. It was when 2-player simultanous games started coming out. Look at Joust. Nintendo also seemed to think you should use your left hand to control the joystick from the beginning.

Back in the glory days, I always played ambidexterous games with my right hand on the joystick. Nowadays if there are buttons involved I use my left for the joy. I think I've been conditioned to play that way. If I'm playing a Pac or Frogger, I use my right.