Bring it! Seriously! My only difficulty would be in the fact that the game is Mortal Kombat 4. TO be honest, I barely played that particular addition to the series. But if he stepped up to learn MK Deception, I'd take him any day of the week. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Liam Erven" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2006 10:37 AM Subject: RE: audyssey: Fw: Blind video game star prepares for Mortal competition in Japan
> Well then. I think a match is in order? > :P > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Brandon Cole > Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2006 3:35 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: audyssey: Fw: Blind video game star prepares for Mortal > competition in Japan > > > I'm not jealous! I am perfectly capable of demolishing the sighted in > games > like this, as are several others on this list. I just happen to consider > him > > either extremely lucky, or extremely spoiled. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Liam Erven" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2006 9:41 AM > Subject: RE: audyssey: Fw: Blind video game star prepares for Mortal > competition in Japan > > >> I'd like to actually be there and watch him play. >> Let's face it. How many of us can bowl over our sighted counterparts >> in a game? If the kids good, he's good! No need to be jealous. >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> On Behalf Of Brandon Cole >> Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2006 2:16 PM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: audyssey: Fw: Blind video game star prepares for Mortal >> competition in Japan >> >> >> Ridiculous. Absolutely positively ridiculous. Do you have any idea how >> many >> of us could get this same kind of publicity if we tried? I find this >> pathetic. >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Ryan Strunk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> To: <[email protected]> >> Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2006 8:26 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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