Which hand do you play Pac-Man with

[xertcev]

(on arcade games...)
On any game with a "fire" button I am much more comfortable with the joystick in my left hand.
But playing Pac-Man games I use my right hand for some reason.
And on games where you have the choice of right or left sided buttons, I will always choose the right

P.S. I am right handed

[Arqueologia_Digital]

I use both hands, but i´m better with left hand

[zektor]

I must use the right hand. If I use my left I'll die in the first round :)

[Felixthegamer]

I was just thinking about this yesterday as I tried playing Pac-man with the left hand. I did as well as I would with my right, terrible! I usually use the joystick with my left hand and hit the fire button with my right hand. However, I typically use the joystick with my right hand when playing Pac-man or Ms. Pac-man.

[Charlie]

Whoa... never noticed this until I read this thread... I play with my right hand! Bizarre.

[jdllama]

Our Gameworks has a Ms. Pac Man / Galaga cocktail, meaning it's crunched up together pretty tightly under the glass.

While playing Ms. Pac Man, I go right handed because I corner awesomely with it.

With Galaga, though, the Galaga shuffle is a lot easier with the left hand. Odd.

[Mayhem]

All arcade joysticks = left hand for me

[Starcade]

*Agrees with Mayhem* 8-)

[CRaCKeRJaCK1980]

For pacman is use my left big toe.

[bargora]

Prefer the right hand, although I'm left-handed. I hate the fact that all of the (home, console) arcade sticks are set up with the buttons to the right.

[Mayhem]

I'm pretty much ambidextrous when it comes to games playing anyhows. I'm left handed naturally (writing, throwing) but do most tasks with my right side (using scissors, catching, kicking a ball etc). Hence arcades are more suited to me in general with the stick in my left hand and buttons on the right. But obviously for home computers the stick is in the right hand and the left thumb on the fire button. I'm equally comfortable in either config 8-)

[punkoffgirl]

I am more than right-handed, I'm right-bodied. Anything that demonstrates some kind of dominance or skill level for one side of the body, I always need the right side parts to do it. Kicking things. Playing games. Scissors. Someone wants to whisper in my ear, I'll turn my right ear toward them. I don't know why, but it's always been that way.

[scooterb23]

I play Pac-Man with my roight hand...in fact, every video game I play, I try to use my right hand...which I guess is opposite of most right-handed people...

I'm in the same boat as Borgora I guess...

[Six Switch]

I use my right hand for all arcade games,I have never tryed my left hand but I don't really want too.

[Gunstarhero]

Which hand do I "play Pac-Man with"? Is that a metaphor? :D

[nesman85]

All arcade joysticks = left hand for me
me too.

[ehall]

With my right hand, but I'll use my left if I want to feel ike someone else is playing it.

Seriously, my right.l

[tynstar]

Which hand do I "play Pac-Man with"? Is that a metaphor?


Does it matter even if it is the answer would be the same.

Right.

[rbudrick]

I use my left nut.

:ass:

-Rob

[NE146]

I think I'm somewhat ambidextrous.. but when I think about it it, it's odd because I can't imagine playing a game like Galaga at the arcade with a joystick on my right and a fire button on my left (or at least it would feel odd). But I can play it no problem on my computer keyboard that way. .. Go figure

[Gunstarhero]

I'm left handed, and I have to hold 'the joystick' with my left hand. *snickers to self*. When I would come across a game at the arcade that would have the joystick on the right with the buttons to the left, I would cross my arms, no shit. I can't hold the joystick with my right hand, it just doesn't feel natural :hmm:

[Sylentwulf]

well, it's been slightly hinted at.... but there's only one thing I can think of through this whole post.

I use my right hand, but if I want to cheat on my right hand, then I hide it behind my back and use my left hand.... it's almost like having a second girlfrie.... er... player! And then there are the threesomes when I grip the unit with my left hand, and the stick itself with my right hand... high scores all the way!

OK, I got that out of my system (NO, not literally, you don't have to feel dirty and go take a shower....yet...) But seriously, I suppose I would play pacman with my right hand.

Sigh.... I can't even type that with a straight face.

[bargora]

well, it's been slightly hinted at.... but there's only one thing I can think of through this whole post.

I use my right hand, but if I want to cheat on my right hand, then I hide it behind my back and use my left hand.... it's almost like having a second girlfrie.... er... player! And then there are the threesomes when I grip the unit with my left hand, and the stick itself with my right hand... high scores all the way!

OK, I got that out of my system (NO, not literally, you don't have to feel dirty and go take a shower....yet...) But seriously, I suppose I would play pacman with my right hand.

Sigh.... I can't even type that with a straight face.
Wocka wocka

[chadtower]

I play with my tongue to impress chicks at parties. Works every time. :P

[Tetsu]

I use my left hand on the stick, like a true neo-classic gamer. I was weaned on SFII and pretty much every game made after the Golden Age of abstract representations in video games. Had I been born in an earlier era, and cut my teeth on the games with zero to one fire button, I would have learned to have the right hand on the stick, as motion was emphasized more than button presses.

[Kid Ice]

Being an Atari baby, I always used my right hand on the classics. On Donkey Kong I would actually cross my right arm over my left arm so I could use the joystick right-handed. When the NES came out I couldn't believe the D-pad was on the left. It was all downhill from there.

Here's the weird part; when I play MAME, I play the classics with a right-handed joystick set up (Ms. Pac Man, Frogger, Berzerk). But the newer games I stick to the default left joystick, especially the games where I have to press fire a million times (Don Pachi, Raiden, etc.)

the kid