I think he is talking about the nintendo 64, man! Thoes were the times let me tell ya! need tec support? Pleas email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] And I will get back to you as soon as possable. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nicol Oosthuizen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Gamers Discussion list" <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, September 29, 2006 5:47 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] the unfortune regarding accessible games andmainstream games
> > NB: This email and its contents are subject to our email legal notice > which can be viewed at http://www.sars.gov.za/Email_Disclaimer.pdf > > ---- > Yes, more or less. The tv games I played with my friends wasn't known as > Atari at the store where we bought them. It's a cartridge with a > joystick plugged into the tv. The cartridge looks almost like a tape > recorder. Well, I think that's the little machine that hosts the > cartridge. The cartridge is like a tape you put into this container and > then it has a reset button on the box thing which you can press then it > will quit the current game and put you back into the menu of games. You > select a game by moving the joystick up and down. The joystick we played > with have anavigational button. Its one big button thing but it have 4 > places where you can press, almost like the arrow keys on a keyboard. > Then the joy stick has 4 round buttons. I know one of them was > extentsively used for jumping or shooting. And then there were two small > buttons between the navigation button control and the round buttons. > One of them paused the game; I can't remember what the other one did. > But I was solely referring to these tv games in the cartridge, that > they are cheeper than accessible games. I know the play stations is much > more expensive than accessible games. Thom , I wasn't trying to > criticize anyone; I'm just trying to contribute to the discussion > regarding accessible and main stream gaming. I'm just learning in the > process because accessible gaming is quite a new concept to me, I'm > just expressing my thoughts and learnfrom the opinions expressed by > other members, whether they disagree with me or not. > Thanks > But I must say regarding the sounds of accessible games, its much > better sounds than the tv games. The tv games' sounds is only electronic > sounds because sighted people don't need sounds to help them play the > game; they use graphics, we blind gamers use sound as our main medium of > navigation as we obviously can't use graphics. All I was trying to > say is that sighted people are very fortunate to pay so little for the > tv games. > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Behalf Of Thomas Ward > Sent: 29 September 2006 01:34 PM > To: Gamers Discussion list > Subject: Re: [Audyssey] the unfortune regarding accessible games and > mainstream games > > Hi Nicol, > From what you describe are you talking about the new Atari tv games > where you get a joystick which plugs in to your tv, and has several > games on them? > While it is true you can find some mainstream games that are cheaper > than accessible games most mainstream games are much more expensive than > > an accessible game. Games for the PS2, Xbox, and Game Cube are allot > more than what you will pay for an accessible game. Most mainstream > games are $45 U.S. and over. > > > _______________________________________________ > 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. > _______________________________________________ > 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. > > > > -- > Internal Virus Database is out-of-date. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.1.385 / Virus Database: 268.2.1/279 - Release Date: 3/10/2006 > > _______________________________________________ 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.
