[Electronics-talk] Video Games

[Kenneth David Tuck]

I have bowled with the family on a wii.
Original message:
> 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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>>>>>> Jude <jdashiel-at-shellworld-dot-net>
>>>>>> <http://www.shellworld.net/~jdashiel/nj.html>


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