I’m like Phil and others, my first real audio games were Apple IIE and, later, GS games on a school computer. There was a time in the early 90s when schools had tons of Apple hardware, and so I got to play Great Escape, Lemonade Stand etc. My first Windows audio game was ShellShock from EspSoftworks. I don’t remember how I found it, I think I was looking for “games for the blind,” on MSN or something. That led me to Audyssey, which lead me to PCS and GMA and so on. :) It’s been great fun. Best, Zack. > On Oct 19, 2014, at 7:26 AM, Charles Rivard <wee1s...@fidnet.com> wrote: > > The first game I encountered was not one made for the blind. "Adventures in > C". The first audio game I encountered was Phil's bowling game for DOS. It > was the first one that I bought, anyway. Then I found Rich Destino's DOS > games of a 5.25-inch floppy disk that actually was floppy. Remember those?? > > --- > Be positive! When it comes to being defeated, if you think you're finished, > you! really! are! finished! > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Thomas Ward" <thomasward1...@gmail.com> > To: "Gamers Discussion list" <gamers@audyssey.org> > Sent: Sunday, October 19, 2014 8:33 AM > Subject: Re: [Audyssey] first audio game. > > >> Hi Dark, >> >> Interesting. As I said I'm not quite sure what the first audio game >> was for certain, but some of the earliest ones I know of were for the >> BNS Classic and BNS 640K. There was Mine Sweeper, Simon, Solitaire, >> and a few others released by Blazie Engineering for the device. A >> little later on Daniel Zingaro released a few games for the BNS. >> However, given the fact that the BNS and other blind devices tended to >> be proprietary I'd be surprised if they were actually the first audio >> games per se. I would think, but could be wrong the first audio games >> were probably were designed for MS Dos. >> >> >> It is too bad you missed out on the early audio games as a teenager, >> but don't feel bad. I did too in large part because I wasn't looking >> for them. Oh, I knew games could be played on Dos, Windows 3.1, and >> Windows 95, etc but at the time my vision was still good enough to >> play games available at the time. By the time my vision got bad enough >> I could no longer play graphical games I naturally turned to text >> based games, but still wasn't looking for games made for the blind >> specifically. >> >> How I ended up finding about Audyssey was by accident more than >> anything else. I called a college friend up on the phone, and he said >> he was playing a game he heard about in Audyssey Magazine. I >> immediately got on the net, grabbed the first few issues, and was >> suddenly introduced to all the games I had been missing. In one way >> the games were something of a let down since I had just gone from Tomb >> Raider, Quake, Jedi Knight, etc to games like Life,, Battleship, and >> that sort of thing. However, I was none-the-less happy to find games >> to play even if they weren't what everybody in college was playing. >> >> On 10/19/14, dark <d...@xgam.org> wrote: >>> Hi Tom. >>> >>> I seem to remember hearing an interview with Jim Kitchin at one point which >>> >>> that the first actual audio game which used sound rather than just writing >>> text to the screen was on the eureaca or one of those other specialist >>> braille machines. >>> >>> I think it was a shoot aliens type of game, but as I've never owned any of >>> those specialist braille things I don't know for certain, still I remember >>> Jim Kitchin saying he got some inspiration from that to create actual games >>> >>> with representative sound, sinse after all in the dos days there were lots >>> of text games being produced by many developers anyway, indeed I'm a little >>> >>> sorry I never found out about them as a teenager and was only given a laptop >>> >>> with windows 3.1 on to work and never thought you could do something as >>> interesting as play games on it, ---- it certainly wouldn've improved my >>> computer skills if I had. >>> >>> Beware the grue! >>> >>> Dark. >>> >>> >>> --- >>> Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org >>> If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to >>> gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. >>> You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at >>> http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. >>> All messages are archived and can be searched and read at >>> http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. >>> If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, >>> please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. >>> >> >> --- >> Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org >> If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to >> gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. >> You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at >> http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. >> All messages are archived and can be searched and read at >> http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. >> If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, >> please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. > > > --- > Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org > If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. > You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at > http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. > All messages are archived and can be searched and read at > http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. > If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, > please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
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