[Electronics-talk] Video Games

[Mary Ann Sears]

Hello could you also play them on a computer

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You can find recommendations for accessible games at www.applevis.com

Some of the games I play on iPad are AudioRun, Moxie, Blind Memory, Moose, 7
Words, Mind Sweeper, Stem Stumper Lite, Tic Tac Free, Word Quest.

Hope this helps.



On Apr 21, 2012, at 6:12 PM, 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"
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>>> Sent: Friday, April 20, 2012 9:48 PM
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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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