Left-Buttoned Arcade Joystick for PS2?

Posted by simoniker on Wednesday January 7, 2004 @08:42PM from the upped-right-and-left dept.

GusherJizmac writes "I just got the Midway Arcade Treasures game for my PS2, and, as I found with Activision Anthology, the games are very difficult to play with my left thumb on the gamepad or "analog" stick. What I want is a proper arcade style joystick with big fat buttons. Even a souped-up 2600 joystick would work. The catch is that a number of those games in the arcade (and on the Atari 2600 as well) had a right-handed person holding the joystick with their right hand and using your left thumb/fingers to hit buttons. All of the arcade/retro controllers I've seen for modern systems have the stick on the left side. I guess there was some cultural shift to using your left hand, but I missed it, and I really want to play these games properly, and without building a MAME cabinet and joystick myself. Anyone have any leads on classic style controllers for PS2?"

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OT, but... by bskin · 2004-01-07 20:58 · Score: 1, Offtopic

If we're gonna have these ask slashdot style articles in the games section, couldn't they get their own category? I don't like the regular ask slashdot, and I'd really rather not have it filtering into my games section stuff.

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