Why Super Mario Runs from Left to Right

There may be a fundamental bias in the way people prefer to see moving items depicted in pictures according to research. An analysis of photos of people and objects in motion revealed a common left-to-right bias. Psychologist Dr Peter Walker of Lancaster University said this widespread evidence for such a left-to-right bias could indicate a possible fundamental bias for visual motion, and would explain why all the main characters in the side-scrolling video games popular in the 1980s and 1990s (eg Super Mario) run from left to right.

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