For me, Simon, that's the point. I have met this guy in person before, and though he sells himself as a great gamer, I believe he's deluding himself. Certainly it is one thing to be able to play a fighting game, but to play any other game with free movement, reading, color matching, or the like, which constitutes a vast majority of the games out there, you would have to see what you're doing. To sell yourself as a great gamer in that instance, to me, just isn't factual. To be more honest, you'd really just have to label yourself a one-trick pony. Maybe that's just me, though.
Ryan ----- Original Message ----- From: "simon.dowling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2006 11:59 AM Subject: Re: audyssey: Fw: Blind video game star prepares for Mortal competition in Japan > well I used to knock seven bells out of my sighted mates when playing > Mohammed ally and streets of rage 2 on the mega drive, and sometimes on > mortal combat too! > I think that this particular kid must have a pretty dull life if he only > plays that game, but good luck to him I suppose he will be labelled in the > same as the late great ray Charles and the legendary stevie wonder. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Liam Erven" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2006 5:41 PM > Subject: RE: audyssey: Fw: Blind video game star prepares for Mortal > competition in Japan > > > > I'd like to actually be there and watch him play. > > Let's face it. How many of us can bowl over our sighted counterparts in a > > game? If the kids good, he's good! No need to be jealous. > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > > Behalf Of Brandon Cole > > Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2006 2:16 PM > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: Re: audyssey: Fw: Blind video game star prepares for Mortal > > competition in Japan > > > > > > Ridiculous. Absolutely positively ridiculous. Do you have any idea how > > many > > of us could get this same kind of publicity if we tried? I find this > > pathetic. > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Ryan Strunk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: <[email protected]> > > Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2006 8:26 PM > > Subject: audyssey: Fw: Blind video game star prepares for Mortal > > competition > > > > in Japan > > > > > >> Ladies and Gentlemen, > >> > >> Please let me know your thoughts on this situation. > >> The individual, in another article, is now styled as "the blind > >> gamer." > >> > >> Ryan > >> ----- Original Message ----- > >> From: Amy Buresh > >> To: undisclosed recipients: > >> Sent: Monday, January 09, 2006 9:29 AM > >> Subject: Blind video game star prepares for Mortal competition in Japan > >> > >> > >> This article from today's Lincoln Journal Star > >> > >> Blind video game star prepares for Mortal competition in Japan by > >> hilary kindschuh/Lincoln Journal Star > >> > >> The latest challenger stands up, defeated. > >> > >> LINCOLN, NE- 06 JAN 07 - Blind videogamer Brice Mellen plays a > >> practice > >> game of Mortal Kombat before taking on anyone willing to challenge him at > >> DogTags > >> Gaming Center on Sunday afternoon. Filming him was a crew from Nippon > >> Television in Japan, who is sponsoring Mellen's upcoming trip to Japan to > >> take on > >> that country's best players. Jill Peitzmeier/jp Lincoln Journal Star > >> > >> "Next victim," says someone in the crowd. > >> > >> Another competitor trudges to the front of the room, sits in a black > >> chair > >> facing a large television screen and picks up a video game controller. > >> > >> Everyone knows it's hopeless. > >> > >> During a special Mortal Kombat competition on Sunday at the DogTags > >> Gaming > >> Center in northeast Lincoln, Brice Mellen effortlessly defeated one > >> opponent > >> after another as he rocked in his chair, his back to the television > >> screen. > >> > >> Brice wasn't showing off by turning away from the video characters > >> fighting on a platform under a rainy, overcast sky. He can't see them. > >> > >> Brice, 18, who has been blind since birth due to Leber's disease, > >> began > >> attracting attention for his video gaming prowess last summer when he was > >> featured > >> on several television programs, including NBC's Today Show. > >> > >> Later this month the Lincoln East High School senior and his father > >> will > >> travel to Japan, where Brice will compete with some of Japan's best > >> Mortal > > > >> Kombat > >> players as part of a special for Nippon TV's Power of Memory, Part III. > >> > >> A Japanese film crew from Nippon TV came to Lincoln over the weekend > >> to > >> shoot footage of Brice at his home and at the gaming center. > >> > >> Sunday's special competition at DogTags was designed as a warmup to > >> help > >> Brice prepare for the tournament. > >> > >> Brice trumped all challengers in best of three rounds competition - > >> most > >> were defeated in under three minutes. A couple managed to win their first > >> round > >> but Brice always came back to win rounds two and three. > >> > >> Brice's sister, 19-year-old Sharon Mellen, said they started playing > >> Mario > >> Brothers video games with their step-sisters about 10 years ago. > >> > >> "We went through a lot of controllers," Sharon said. > >> > >> Eventually, Brice moved on to a Sega Genesis, Sharon said. That's when > >> he > >> started playing Mortal Kombat. > >> > >> "Then it was love thereafter," she said. > >> > >> Brice's family didn't realize how talented he was until he came to the > >> DogTags, Sharon said. > >> > >> "Kids don't want to play him," she said. 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