oh cool, do you know where you can get that rowing machine? Jen K
--- ari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks guys, this is the kind of stuff I was > thinking of. One I now remember > seeing, you could sort of clasify it as a game, was > a rowing machine, not > really accessible though. The point about this thing > was you actually set > your resistance, and for sighted people, you were > actually in a race against > other boats. Even for blind people, their was also > excitement, since you > could sometimes hear this shark, and you had to row > faster to get away from > him, or it would eat you and the machine would stop. > I also heard of an > excersise bike where you ride a planned route on the > screen, e.g through a > maze, or a race, and you had to pedal, look, and > turn the handle bars to > turn the bike. > The problem about hand games, is that people assume > that if it talks, it's > sort of accessible. Their are some handgames where > you can shoot quite a lot > of things before you die. > My friend actually had a game on the Nintendo called > Wild Gunman. This game > was totally accessible! You plugged a gun into the > console, centred it on > the screen, and waited. The guy would say 'Fire,' > and if you fired first, > you would go to a faster level, but if he fired > first, you'd die and have to > start from the beginning. This was probably to test > hand-ear reflex, but it > was hard, since it somehow knew when you weren't > aiming the gun to the > middle, and your hand really has to be steady and > you really have to have > nerve to wait tensely before hearing the fire to > shoot. I often wonderd how > fast that game could get, or if it had an ending, > since I think the > furtherest I got was I think level 16. > Ari > > > _______________________________________________ > Gamers mailing list .. [email protected] > To unsubscribe send E-mail to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can visit > http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org > to make > any subscription changes via the web. > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Gamers mailing list .. [email protected] To unsubscribe send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can visit http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org to make any subscription changes via the web.
