Hmm, true. True if you're into old style, I guess.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Raul A. Gallegos" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, February 27, 2006 11:24 AM Subject: audyssey: Games, old style or new? > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Here Here. And it's not just blind people interested in older style > games. At Wal-Mart one can for $30 or so buy a little hand-held device > which connects to the A/V of a receiver or your television and one can > play the classic 80's arcade Pacman, MS Pacman, Space Invaders, etc. > There are about 4 or 5 games in each cartrage and one can buy more for > around $10 or $15. The unit urns off of 4 AA batteries. Not accessable > to a totally blind person yet these are selling a lot. Who buys them? I > bet you mainly people over 30 do but I have seen kids get them too. My > daughter has learned to appreciate the things which were popular when I > was a kid. Things from 80's music to 80's games are just a few of them. > Do we have one of these devices? You bet we do. Much better for the kids > I think than the violence-filled games out today. > > > Thomas Ward said the following on Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 10:55:24AM -0500: >> Hi, Orin. >> I'm interested to know why you are so aposed to old games. You flat out >> said there is no point, but I bet you there is quite a few people on >> this list that would disagree with that point of view. I'm one of them. >> You see, I think the diference is our ages. I know you are quite a bit >> younger than me, and I lived during the 80's at the height of the Atari >> madness. Having games like Aliens in the Outback, Pacman Talks, >> Montezuma's Revenge, is for me like going back in time and visiting >> those games. Games I enjoyed. If you have no personal connection with >> them, and then you would likely see them as pointless. > > > - -- > We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the > machinations of the wicked. > Raul A. Gallegos ... IliwSsmc > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.7 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFEAyfFqqqqyw8Or2IRAhroAJ4hkvqbB7a5l53Uov8NbO8LscEp/gCfUlya > iBnKLdACHW7ya5YpRezi4Z4= > =H7nK > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > 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! Groups Links > > > > > > 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! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/blindgamers/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
