How did you hold your N64 controller?

How did you hold your N64 controller?

  • Left hand on the middle grip

    Votes: 12 70.6%

  • Left hand on the left grip

    Votes: 3 17.6%

  • Other

    Votes: 2 11.8%
  • Total voters
    17
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The Nintendo recommended way to hold an N64 controller is right hand on the right grip, left hand on the middle grip. I never did that. It never even occurred to me to do that. I went straight for the left grip. Maybe I had giant hands even as a kid.

So inquiring minds want to know: How did you (usually) hold yours?
 
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always went middle grip. it gives you the thumb stick and the z-button. hardly ever had a use to the buttons on teh left hand side. went it can to games like james bond, and perfect dark i would use the yellow buttons on the right for movement, thumbstick for looking around, z-button for shooting, and right shoulder for aiming.
 
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At first I tried to hold it like a SNES controller, but then moved to the right way after seeing how awkward the former is.

(but then games that use the left pad instead of the 3D stick make it more comfy to hold it like a SNES controller instead)
 
Unless you're left-handed I don't see any other way to play most games, it's obvious, natural, and comfortable to hold the middle prong with your left hand and grip the right side, of course, with your right hand.

There's a few 2D games where you'll hold it more like a traditional controller and ignore the middle prong though.
 
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SSj_Ness said:
Unless you're left-handed I don't see any other way to play most games, it's obvious, natural, and comfortable to hold the middle prong with your left hand and grip the right side, of course, with your right hand.

There's a few 2D games where you'll hold it more like a traditional controller and ignore the middle prong though.
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Even for us left handed tards it still felt natural to use our dominant hand to hold the center prong
 
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pretty much the only game I played on it was Mario 64 so I held the middle one since the left side of the control is just camera shit
I assume I played pokemon puzzle league at some point, probably used the left side for that since that was digital, right?
 
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Middle handle left hand, right hand on top of the right side like a fight stick while resting your palm on the right handle. Pinch thumbstick with index and thumb of left hand and use ring/middle finger for Z. If you're using the left D-pad, same finger usage for Z trigger.

Yes, I know this sounds absolutely autistic. It's something I picked up from a friend who would absolutely run my shit in Goldeneye and Perfect Dark when I was a kid. That same friend is one of the best fighting game players of my friend group now. It makes getting to multiple C buttons easier. It's strangely similar to a 6-button Sega Genesis controller. I say "strangely" because no, it's clearly not the same, but the hand feel is quite similar when playing overhand like a fight stick.
 
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Left hand on left prong, right hand on right prong, foreskin gripping the center stick. Tilt and twist the controller for analog input.
 
Knew a guy at university who would play smash this way: put the controller on a leg and then use it like an arcade pad, right hand thumb for stick, fingers for face buttons and R button
 
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