Hi Dark, Interesting. I didn't even know Thomas was that old. Perhaps it hadn't been imported to the States until later, but the first I heard of the Thomas cartoons and toys was in 2004 when my son Sean was born. Before that I had never heard of it.
In any case the game my son Sean has is like Shoots and Ladders. There are four cardboard trains, and the board is 100 squares of tracks. There is a spinner you spin to move and some tracks go up, to the next level of tracks and others lead back to start.It is a pretty cute game, but as I said in my prior post it is designed for a 3 to 6 year old child so is pretty simplistic as games goes. Although, It would be kind of cool as an audio game. Cheers! On 6/9/12, dark <[email protected]> wrote: > Funny you should mention thomas the tank engine board games Tom, sinse one > of my earlier childhood memories when I was learning braille was my mum > labeling a Thomas board game for me, ---- basically a roll the dice to reach > > the end type of game with a few special squares. > > I must have been about 3 or 4 at the time, and played the game with my mum > and sometimes friends until it fell to bits :D. > > Not that there shold! have been an accessible version, much as I had a bit > of a craze on Thomas and trains when I was little (I own the hole set of > original, metal 1980's trains, which are probably now worth quite a lot of > money), though perhaps a service helping parents braille those sorts of > games for blind children would be a good thing. luckily my mum could do it > herself, but obviously not everyone has a mother who also reads braille > (Indeed my mum pretty much taught me braille for the first year of school > because the councel couldn't find a teacher). > > Beware the grue! > > dark. --- Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [email protected]. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [email protected].
