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Title: Do you play rotary games (Ikari, etc) with your left or right hand?
Post by: Ninten-doh on February 04, 2006, 09:14:47 am

For those of you who enjoy these games, do you normally use the joystick with your left or right hand?  Thinking about a 2-player CP and want to keep guests in mind so I'm trying to get an idea.  I would assume the left hand like other games, but you know what happens when you assume.   ;)

Title: Re: Do you play rotary games (Ikari, etc) with your left or right hand?
Post by: Kremmit on February 04, 2006, 11:49:54 pm

Left.  It's the way the original cabs were set up for those games, so it's what feels right to me now.

Title: Re: Do you play rotary games (Ikari, etc) with your left or right hand?
Post by: maxlamer on February 05, 2006, 04:02:26 am

I've seen some cabinets with buttons on both sides of the joysticks (1 player only) but if you were worried about guests and that issue you could do your cp like that

Title: Re: Do you play rotary games (Ikari, etc) with your left or right hand?
Post by: brandon on February 05, 2006, 08:47:01 am

left.  But then again I AM left-handed ;D  not sure who started the joystick on the left idea..  Maybe Nintendo?  They invented the modern gamepad and its on the left..   glad they did it that way though :)


EDIT:

btw, somewhere I saw a "left handed" gamepad with the D-pad on the right!  Wouldnt that be a right handed one?   strange... ???

Title: Re: Do you play rotary games (Ikari, etc) with your left or right hand?
Post by: Gh0sty on February 05, 2006, 07:02:14 pm

joystick is allways left, shooting and bombing and the rest right. Thats the way i
played real arcades since 1982 - up today, and i'm righthanded. I knew, shooting
and bombing was more important (if you are fast enough) then to avoid the enemy fire ;)

Title: Re: Do you play rotary games (Ikari, etc) with your left or right hand?
Post by: XtraSmiley on February 05, 2006, 07:11:58 pm

Well, I was thinking normal on the left, buttons, then a rotary on the right.  That way I could play games like smash tv/robotron with two sticks, a normal stick for most games and a rotary for games, but then buttons would be on the left of it...

Not sure it matters to much, you get use to whatever after awhile.