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Chet Weaver would like to point out that Halloween lasts an hour longer this year wrote:
> richard e white wrote:
>
> > I told them to click on every thing and they said they did.
> > Then I goof around with it for a bout ten minutes and I find it and I can no
> > longer even see the screen.
> >
> I have a couple questions for you, personally:
> 1. Do you play Pokemon or any other video games?
> 2. If yes, how do you do it? You're blind, as your signature says. I
> once saw this documentary on video games and at one point they introduce
> us to this blind girl who plays Pokemon on a GameBoy Color (I think.
> Could be Pocket). She even has a favorite, which is Bayleef. It just
> baffles me that someone who can't see can play a video game. How could
> it possibly be accomplished?
>
> --
>
> Chet "Tech" Weaver
>
> AIM: PanGatomon
> MSN: Nichirasu@hotmail.com
> eMail: zeroohki at netscape dot net
> Yahoo! Messenger: tech_weaver
> ICQ: 122744531
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>
> My Adventure Quest character:
>
http://www.battleon.com/aq-chardetail.asp?temp=131213
> You can play Adventure Quest at
http://www.battleon.com
>
> Sometimes, I notice someone has posted a reply to one of my messages and
> I think, "Oh, great, what did I say this time?"
Well the first thing you need to know is that blind does not all ways mean that you see
nothing. I was leagly blind for for or five years and still played pokemon by my self. I
had just enugf vistion to find my character on the screen given about five minets and the
right size tv. I have never been able to use any of the game boys.
But silver and gold was the last ones I could play by myself. Now I need people to read
me what is on the screen. By the way if a pokemon game spoke rather then just put stuff
on the tv screen I could still play all by my self. these days I need some one else to
read the text.
as to moveing the character on the screen you do it by moveing one step at a time and
counting as you go. The reason that many leagle blind people play pokemon is that you can
just have your character stand there as you try and find him on the screen. so it does
not matter how long it took for me to find out where I am. These days i spend most of my
time looking for things. I bump in to a lot of things as someone trys to help me. Half
the time it is even more fun because the other person says go left and I think left of the
screen and as they saw the character faceing right they ment up.
At other times like when I play with my brother he tells me what is on the screen and I
tell him what to do, or witch attacks to keep as we get new ones or even what attack to
use.
It takes some getting use to and is often a team event these days. but it is much better
with a person who likes to help and read what is on the screen. so oddly it is often
better with young kids who like to read and with people who like to help but don't like to
play them self. people who like to play often slip and would just rather play them self
cutting me out.
But it does take some time to work out where things are and finding the poeple that move
in the game are hard.
As to playing other games there are some that are sound only like the ones made by
babysoft That dos not sound right so I think I mispeld it. in these games you have a
narrater that tells you what is in the room or in your area and you go throught a list for
the action you want.
and there are some games where a screen reader can give me the writen info.
But weather I can play often depends on how much work was done on the sounds of the games.
once you learn the pattern of sounds that are made and when the next thing you need to
learn is the pattern of commands that you can do.
for the most part that is easy on pokemon as the option points are in either list form or
the one down and one to the right.
But I will admit that the new pokemon switch dureing battle has still got me stumped as it
moves the list around some where the old games left it with the list you made.
I know I ramblued a bit here so ask more if I missed something.
--
Richard The Blind Typer
Lets Hear It For Talking Computers.
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