Thanks, I guess I learn something new every day. allan ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Reagan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2006 11:19 AM Subject: Re: audyssey: Fw: Blind video game star prepares for Mortal competition in Japan
> The rocking is a nervous habbit that most blind people have, it is not > good > for socialability. I've done it sometimes too and have learned to stop > it. > Sometimes though, I do it without knowing it. > Chris > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "allan thompson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2006 10:11 AM > Subject: Re: audyssey: Fw: Blind video game star prepares for Mortal > competition in Japan > > >> Wow, talk about Pinball Wizard. This is pretty cool. >> I don't understand the reference to his "rocking". Was he on a rocking >> chair, or is there something I don't understand going on here? >> Hope he winds. >> >> allan >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Ryan Strunk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> To: <[email protected]> >> Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2006 11:26 PM >> Subject: audyssey: Fw: Blind video game star prepares for Mortal >> competition >> in Japan >> >> >>> Ladies and Gentlemen, >>> >>> Please let me know your thoughts on this situation. >>> The individual, in another article, is now styled as "the blind gamer." >>> >>> Ryan >>> ----- Original Message ----- >>> From: Amy Buresh >>> To: undisclosed recipients: >>> Sent: Monday, January 09, 2006 9:29 AM >>> Subject: Blind video game star prepares for Mortal competition in Japan >>> >>> >>> This article from today's Lincoln Journal Star >>> >>> Blind video game star prepares for Mortal competition in Japan >>> by hilary kindschuh/Lincoln Journal Star >>> >>> The latest challenger stands up, defeated. >>> >>> LINCOLN, NE- 06 JAN 07 - Blind videogamer Brice Mellen plays a practice >>> game of Mortal Kombat before taking on anyone willing to challenge him >>> at >>> DogTags >>> Gaming Center on Sunday afternoon. Filming him was a crew from Nippon >>> Television in Japan, who is sponsoring Mellen's upcoming trip to Japan >>> to >>> take on >>> that country's best players. Jill Peitzmeier/jp Lincoln Journal Star >>> >>> "Next victim," says someone in the crowd. >>> >>> Another competitor trudges to the front of the room, sits in a black >>> chair >>> facing a large television screen and picks up a video game controller. >>> >>> Everyone knows it's hopeless. >>> >>> During a special Mortal Kombat competition on Sunday at the DogTags >>> Gaming >>> Center in northeast Lincoln, Brice Mellen effortlessly defeated one >>> opponent >>> after another as he rocked in his chair, his back to the television >>> screen. >>> >>> Brice wasn't showing off by turning away from the video characters >>> fighting on a platform under a rainy, overcast sky. He can't see them. >>> >>> Brice, 18, who has been blind since birth due to Leber's disease, began >>> attracting attention for his video gaming prowess last summer when he >>> was >>> featured >>> on several television programs, including NBC's Today Show. >>> >>> Later this month the Lincoln East High School senior and his father will >>> travel to Japan, where Brice will compete with some of Japan's best >>> Mortal >>> Kombat >>> players as part of a special for Nippon TV's Power of Memory, Part III. >>> >>> A Japanese film crew from Nippon TV came to Lincoln over the weekend to >>> shoot footage of Brice at his home and at the gaming center. >>> >>> Sunday's special competition at DogTags was designed as a warmup to help >>> Brice prepare for the tournament. >>> >>> Brice trumped all challengers in best of three rounds competition - most >>> were defeated in under three minutes. A couple managed to win their >>> first >>> round >>> but Brice always came back to win rounds two and three. >>> >>> Brice's sister, 19-year-old Sharon Mellen, said they started playing >>> Mario >>> Brothers video games with their step-sisters about 10 years ago. >>> >>> "We went through a lot of controllers," Sharon said. >>> >>> Eventually, Brice moved on to a Sega Genesis, Sharon said. That's when >>> he >>> started playing Mortal Kombat. >>> >>> "Then it was love thereafter," she said. >>> >>> Brice's family didn't realize how talented he was until he came to the >>> DogTags, Sharon said. >>> >>> "Kids don't want to play him," she said. "They're scared to lose." >>> >>> By listening to the different sounds in the game, Brice said, he can >>> anticipate what his opponent will do. >>> >>> "But you've got to attack, too," he said. >>> >>> After Brice defeated all of his challengers Sunday, a member of the >>> Japanese film crew asked him if he was confident he would always win. >>> >>> "Who knows? There could be somebody out there better than me," Brice >>> said, >>> rocking in his chair. "That's why I've got to keep playing, so I can win >>> if we >>> ever meet." >>> >>> Reach Hilary Kindschuh at 473-7301 or >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> >>> >>> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] >>> >>> >>> >>> to leave send a blank Email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> You can contact the list owners/moderators by Emailing >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> to go nomail send a blank message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> change "nomail" to "normal" to resume messages. >>> Yahoo! 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