Hi, Well, as many of you know I was sighted for many years. the very first video game I can remember playing was Packman on my Atari 2600 around 1982 or so. I later got several more games from that era such as Demon Attack, Space Invaders, Missile Command, etc. All the classics in other words. Around 1985 or so I got a Colleco for Christmas and started playing games like Donkey Kong, Mouse Trap, Smirfs, Zaxon, and several other games I probably don't recall any more. 1987 I had switched game consoles yet again moving to the Nintendo Entertainment System. It pretty much goes without saying I had all the major games such as Megaman, Mario, Double Dragon, Ninja Turtles, Castlevania, and several more. In fact, I still have the NES and most of the games in my living room closet. By this time in my life I was beginning to have a harder time playing the games because I couldn't see the tv screen very well. Things were often blurry, but it didn't stop me from continuing to play. By the 1990's my next major game console, if you wish to call it that, was an IBM 486 with 4 MB of ram. I played various games such as Duke Nukem, Overkill, and plenty of games I just don't remember now. I had several. In 1996, when I was a senior in high school, I got a new IBM with Windows 95 on it. About that time there were a number of popular PC games such as Heroes of Might and Magic, Tomb Raider, Top Gun, Doom, Jedi Knight, etc which I played. These were really the last games I could really play as I really couldn't see them well, and I was using Jaws 2.0 to access the PC because I couldn't see the words, icons, etc. It basically was just a mindless mess of blurry colors. Around 1998 I started looking for accessible games. A friend of mine in college gave me some of Jim Kitchens self-voicing games. Those proved to be fun little time waisters, but I wanted something more. So I kept looking. Eventually, I found GMA's web site with Lonewolf and Trek 2000 which I purchased right away. About this time Shades of Doom was in testing, and I recall buying it not long after it came out. As it happens the GMA Games site had a link to the Audyssey Magazine list and I joined to find out more about it. After that the rest is history. I have been floating around in the audio games community ever since.
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