Hi Claudio,
There was a Tech Talk conference last night featuring Jim Kitchen and
his games. During the conference Jim showed off Monopoly, Football,
Casino, and baseball. He talked about his plans for puppy 1, and how he
got into accessible games.
After the main part of the conference everyone drifted into how Audyssey
and the magazine has grown into a community and family thanks to Jim's
games. How Jim's games really were the first accessible games most of us
played which is certainly true for me.
He talked about how around 1989 he got an NEC with Jaws For Dos and
there wasn't really any accessible games out there. So he began to write
his own.
In that regard he and I are a lot alike. After I lost my sight I didn't
think there were any accessible games so I started programming games.
When I found Audyssey I discovered there were games, but nothing like I
had been playing before loosing my sight. hence the creation of USA Games.
After listening I did get a greater respect for Jim just seeing how much
enjoyment, help, and education his games have done for a lot of people.
Many of them from an older generation who aren't interested in Tomb
Raider, Jedi Knight, Resident Evil, and the kind of games us from a
younger generation are after. It is easy to loose sight of that when we
are looking ahead at the future rather than the history and how much we
were all effected by someone like Jim and Phil who opened the door for
accessible games in the first place.
I kind of have to laugh, but some of PCS Games older titles like
Panzers In North Africa are still on my wish list for Windows games. the
game rocked and I miss having it.
I remember Trek 99 and I really enjoyed that game. It was Trek 99 and
Trek 2000 that influenced STFC.
Claudio Zeni wrote:
Hello Josh!
About what conference do you talk please?
Regards, Claudio.
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