Are you a LEFT -or- RIGHT handed joystick user.

[Omega-TI]

This is to gauge the percentage left/right handed people and to determine out of that percentage how many left or right handed people actually use a 'backwards stick'.

[iesposta]

I can't vote because the game dictates the controls.

I am right handed, so my rhythm (accuracy) is in my right hand.

If a game demands precision firing, then I want the fire button for my right hand. (Galaga, Defender, Joust)

If a game demands precision joystick movements, I want the joystick in my right hand. (Pac Man, Dig Dug)

 

This is my 7800 joystick. (Thanks the.golden.ax!)

[CatPix]

I would vote, but I ban the joystick as much as possible. The jerks who decided that racing, platform, RPG and all over kinds of games should be played with a Joystick (especially the horrible flimsy joysticks made during all the 80's should be burned alive.

Thanks Amstrad for THIS :

 

It came late, but it existed.

[Gregory DG]

Just depends on how the controller is configured. I can use either hand (I'm semi - ambidextrous.)

 

Atari Joystick - Left hand firing, right hand controlling.

NES or Xbox Pad - Left hand controlling, right hand pressing buttons.

Keyboard - Left hand for UDLR, right hand moving mouse and firing.

Edited May 17, 2014 by Gregory DG

[IainGrimm]

The stick I use is a Powerplay Cruiser, works perfect for both left and right handed people.

 

Also have a Competition Pro which is perfect for either left or right

 

 

[Omega-TI]

You guys have some nice sticks. I don't have any flexibility with my joystick. The TI-99/4A only had one button on it's joystick, even though many games required button selections, so you never could get far from the console. This is what I use.

 

[JamesD]

In the arcade I usually use the left hand for the stick and the right for buttons.
At home I'm stuck with the opposite.

[Omega-TI]

In the arcade I usually use the left hand for the stick and the right for buttons.

At home I'm stuck with the opposite.

 

 

Doesn't the switching back and forth drive you nuts and ruin your scores?

[+Random Terrain]

This reminds me of something:

 

randomterrain.com/atari-2600-memories-program-seaweed-assault.html#right_left

 

[CatPix]

Nice features, man!

That's not the subject here, but I think more than new games on an old system, I like to see improvements on controls, game mechanics and functions Especially on older systems with limited possibilities.

[Keatah]

I swing both ways.

[Cebus Capucinis]

I play with my joystick with both hands, don't want one of them to get jealous of the other now would we?

[bennybingo]

You guys have some nice sticks.

 

 

[AtariLeaf]

I guess it depends on which hand the lotion is in.

[retrorussell]

I haven't used a joystick in forever. I just stick to joypads. Though the games I play in my YouTube videos are often better utilized with a joystick.

[Cebus Capucinis]

I guess it depends on which hand the lotion is in.

 

Lotion, you say?

 

[MrMaddog]

Right hand for Atari joysticks and left hand for gamepads since there's no choice there really...

 

I was thinking about this when designing my own MAME cabinet, for older arcade games that have fire buttons on both sides I use my right hand on the joystick cause that's how I learned as a kid.

[Cobra Commander]

Over the years I discovered I do some things better left, like bowling, fishing, skateboarding and I prefer a left handed or ambi trackball. I write, throw and wipe by backside with my right, so I'm claiming righty. As far as joysticks I've always used them righty because most are set up that way. However my favorite game is Smash TV which is two joysticks? I've always hated joysticks for consoles in favor of pads mostly for comfort. I gonna try to use them lefty sometime.

[Thomas Jentzsch]

Even though am left handed, got forced to use my right hand for the original joysticks and adapted to it. If the CX40 would have had two buttons, I most likely would use the left hand for the joystick today.