Perhaps I am. But if I was able to challenge him, at least another blind voice would be heard. ----- Original Message ----- From: "FigureInTheCloak" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, January 14, 2006 6:52 AM Subject: Re: audyssey: Fw: Blind video game star prepares for Mortal competition in Japan
> Oh you'r asking for it. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Brandon Cole" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2006 4:40 PM > Subject: Re: audyssey: Fw: Blind video game star prepares for Mortal > competition in Japan > > >> Bring it! Seriously! My only difficulty would be in the fact that the >> game >> is Mortal Kombat 4. TO be honest, I barely played that particular >> addition >> to the series. But if he stepped up to learn MK Deception, I'd take him >> any >> day of the week. >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Liam Erven" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> To: <[email protected]> >> Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2006 10:37 AM >> Subject: RE: audyssey: Fw: Blind video game star prepares for Mortal >> competition in Japan >> >> >>> Well then. I think a match is in order? >>> :P >>> >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> On >>> Behalf Of Brandon Cole >>> Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2006 3:35 PM >>> To: [email protected] >>> Subject: Re: audyssey: Fw: Blind video game star prepares for Mortal >>> competition in Japan >>> >>> >>> I'm not jealous! I am perfectly capable of demolishing the sighted in >>> games >>> like this, as are several others on this list. I just happen to consider >>> him >>> >>> either extremely lucky, or extremely spoiled. >>> ----- Original Message ----- >>> From: "Liam Erven" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> To: <[email protected]> >>> Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2006 9:41 AM >>> 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. 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