[Electronics-talk] Video Games

[Jude DaShiell]

nethack was the original top down view video game and can be played on 
text-based systems with the text interface like Linux and dos at least a 
386 computer for dos and is a free download from nethack.org.  Use the 
enter link when you get there if you decide to download that one.  There 
are people that spend their entire lives and never win nethack.  Its 
support list is rec.games.roguelike.nethack on usenet.  If you play with 
accessibility defaults it uses ascii for screen display and that makes 
it possible.  A mac in terminal mode can do this too.  The game maps are 
randomized so never the same between games.  If you use the (?) 
character inside the game you get to all of the game's help.  Use of (/) 
will allow you to move the cursor to a character and when you hit enter 
have the character under the cursor described.  Best I ever did was 
experience level 12 out of 30 and I usually get killed off on experience 
level 7 these days.  Cursor movement is done with arrow keys or letters 
on keyboard  hjkl left down up right and variants.

On Fri, 20 Apr 2012, Jolynn Page wrote:

> Hello,
>   I am looking for any video games that may be played by a blind
> person even if not made for blind people just something that wouldn't
> be too difficult for a blind person to play.  My son has been asking
> me to play games with him and I have been doing some research online
> and there are articles about blind people playing different games but
> I haven't had any luck finding out what those are.  If you have any
> ideas of any video games and what system they are for I would really
> appreciate it.  Thanks so much for any help you can give me
> Linnie
> 
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