[Electronics-talk] Video Games

[Jolynn Page]

On 4/21/12, Jolynn Page <linnie1516 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I will try the link and see what games I can find.  I was trying to
> figure out if there are any video games a blind person can play
> whether on a playstation, nintendo wii, 3ds or any of those systems.
> I went online and saw something where a blind woman was playing a game
> on the nintendo 64 but wasnt sure if there are any other games out
> there.  I was just trying to find something that I can play with my
> family or on my own.  Thanks for any help you can give me
> Linnie
>
> On 4/21/12, Jolynn Page <linnie1516 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Apr 21, 2012, at 3:59 PM, "Brett Boyer" <bboyer202 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> 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"
>>>> <electronics-talk at nfbnet.org>
>>>> Sent: Friday, April 20, 2012 9:48 PM
>>>> Subject: Re: [Electronics-talk] Video Games
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> 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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