[Electronics-talk] Video Games

[Jolynn Page]

I do have an iPad 2 I haven't been very lucky in finding games that
are accessible with voice over.

On 4/21/12, Linda Bloodsaw <lbloodsaw2018 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Do you have an iPad? I play games on my iPad.
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> On Apr 21, 2012, at 3:59 PM, "Brett Boyer" <bboyer202 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Hi. Is this a video game though? does it use graphics and sounds? Or is it
>> like a text adventure.
>> thanks
>> bb
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jude DaShiell"
>> <jdashiel at shellworld.net>
>> To: "Discussion of accessible electronics and appliances"
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>> Sent: Friday, April 20, 2012 9:48 PM
>> Subject: Re: [Electronics-talk] Video Games
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>>> 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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