Which games? Are these PC games, or have you played some games on some consoles too?
-Vapour ----- Original Message ----- From: "mvfegund" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, January 14, 2006 8:51 AM Subject: Re: audyssey: Fw: Blind video game star prepares for Mortal competition in Japan >I all ways play sighted video games. And I am blind. All it takes, is a > surround system, and a sighted person to read the scores and all that. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "FigureInTheCloak" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Saturday, January 14, 2006 7:21 AM > Subject: Re: audyssey: Fw: Blind video game star prepares for Mortal > competition in Japan > > >> Wow! That is cool! >> >> I actually saw this article, or one very much like it, on a sighted >> gaming >> message board, which I proceeded not to join, because the assholes there >> didn't believe what they were reading and even had the f**ing nerve to >> insinuate that the guy was faking being blind just to get attention. AS > if >> anyone would! God people can be such bakas! >> >> But I'd very much like to believe it's true. I have heard before, in > other >> than gaming contexts, of blind people who's ears are that good. So >> unlike >> those dorks, I don't see why it couldn't be possible, just rare, and I >> certainly don't think anyone would fake. That's just sick. But boy >> wouldn't you just love to meet the guy in person, just to see for your > self, >> not to mention get some tips on how he does it? More to the point, I'd > love >> to be that good myself. Well, not that good maybe, but good enough to >> actually play mainstream games like that. LOL But I suppose I'd better > get >> my hand-ear coordination up to getting all the way through Dark Destroyer >> first. >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Ryan Strunk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> To: <[email protected]> >> Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2006 11:26 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. "They're scared to lose." >> > >> > By listening to the different sounds in the game, Brice said, he can >> > anticipate what his opponent will do. >> > >> > "But you've got to attack, too," he said. >> > >> > After Brice defeated all of his challengers Sunday, a member of the >> > Japanese film crew asked him if he was confident he would always win. >> > >> > "Who knows? There could be somebody out there better than me," Brice > said, >> > rocking in his chair. "That's why I've got to keep playing, so I can >> > win >> > if we >> > ever meet." >> > >> > Reach Hilary Kindschuh at 473-7301 or >> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> > >> > >> > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] >> > >> > >> > >> > to leave send a blank Email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> > You can contact the list owners/moderators by Emailing >> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> > to go nomail send a blank message to: >> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> > change "nomail" to "normal" to resume messages. >> > Yahoo! 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