[blparent] Accessible Games?

[Leanne Merren]

I have a friend who is blind and she plays games on the Wii with her 
husband.  She says she likes the bowling game and American Idol...  I think 
you have to have someone sighted set the games up, but for bowling you 
actually pretend to throw the ball I guess, and American Idole you actually 
sing?  I haven't done it myself so just passing along what I've heard. 
*smile*
Leanne
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Veronica Smith" <madison_tewe at spinn.net>
To: "'NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List'" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Wednesday, November 11, 2009 12:17 PM
Subject: Re: [blparent] Accessible Games?


> Hi welcome to this group and if there is such a game out there one of us
> will let you know about it.  My daughter 10 and I stay with board games. 
> I
> am purchasing a Brailled scrabble game and we have playing cards with
> Braille.  I also hear that Monopoly comes with Braille but I haven't 
> checked
> into that yet.   My daughter is also excelled in math and reading and we
> play games without voices or raised lines and I can only hope she doesn't
> cheat. (lol) Veronica
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of Allison (NFBA)
> Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 1:43 PM
> To: blparent at nfbnet.org
> Subject: [blparent] Accessible Games?
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> I just joined this list today because Debby Stein recommended it and I 
> have
> some questions about accessible games.
>
> My boyfriend's little boy is turning 8 this month and I'm shopping for
> birthday presents for him.  He's a sighted second-grader who *loves*
> computer and video games.  I'm trying to find out if there are any fun
> accessible games that I can play with him.  I'm looking for something for
> either the computer or the Wii that I can play without sight but that will
> also be graphically interesting to a sighted 8-year-old.  In short, which
> computer or video games can a blind adult and sighted child both play
> together?  The little guy loves World of Warcraft and Guild Wars, but as 
> far
> as I can tell I can't play either of those.  He's a smart kid who is a 
> grade
> ahead in math and grade level in reading.  I think educational games would
> be appropriate, but I'd really like to find something more action-packed 
> and
> focused on fun.  I'm not an accessible computer game-player myself so I 
> have
> almost no experience in this area.  Any suggestions you guys can give 
> would
> be greatly appreciated!
>
> Thanks,
> Allison
>
>
>
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