Holy cow! That is what I call a ridiculous collection lol. Makes my
collection of Atari and some other of the older stuff look downright
small. So far I have not had the best of luck with any of the cartridge
based games for my Sega Genisis unit and the few cd drive boxes I have
seen for it would cost me way more than the unit itself did. Quite a
few of the mainstream games I want to try seem to be pretty much out
only for the ps2 or xbox so I am probably going to start saving my
nickels to pick up a ps2 when I can, at which point I will have to put
my genisis away or do some other rearranging since space is at a premium
here.
Oh well such is life.
Game on.
Tom
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On Behalf Of constantine (on laptop)
Sent: Monday, September 29, 2008 3:50 PM
To: Gamers Discussion list
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Mainstream games
Hi
I really hope mortal kombat gets released for the psp, similar to ps3's.
I
love my psp and won't ever go with anything else- actually, another
console
to add here - am I the only one that has good luck with it? - is the
nintendo 64! Such good memories, much fun and a lot, and I mean a lot,
of
trial and error. I stil own this beauty and have a lot of non accessible
games for it. But I love it, nonetheless.
I also own most other systems you can think of. Sega products, including
sega cd, sega genny, (1, 2, and the horrid 3), cd x, sega saturn, sega
dreamcast, game gear, nomad. Master system, 3 do, super ness, nes.
Jaguar
cd. Jaguar.
Note: some of these systems are extreeemely rare! I had a heck of a time
obtaining a 3do at a reasonable price, same with the nomad. I love them
all
though and, eventually, will do podcasts on the ones I can. I can't
really
do podcasts very good, and am practicing, but these podcasts will come
in a
while, I hope.
I have 1 or two accessible games for each system, some systems, though,
don't even have one. I own the system for the joy of it- and yes,
sometimes
regret it- but if your looking for a portable system, why not try the
gameboy. I agree, the newer systems are good, but older systems have a
certain charm to them, pokemon series for one is completely accessible
(well, not completely but very close).
hope that helps
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From: "Tom Randall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "'Lindsay Cowell'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "'Gamers
Discussion list'" <gamers@audyssey.org>
Sent: Saturday, September 27, 2008 1:43 PM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Mainstream games
Hi Lindsay and all.
Well Thomas did a really excellent job of explaining a lot of aspects
of playing mainstream games but I will add my two cents as well. It
apparently really depends on what console you have as to what games
are playable and how easy it is to get them going. From what I have
read here it seems that the Sony consoles e.g. playstation,
playstation 2, 3, psp etc. seem to be the ones to get, although the
new Nintendo console is supposed to be good as well if you want to
spend the cash for it. If you are going to go with one of the
nonportable playstations, probably a ps2 or 3 is the best because they
are apparently backward compatible, meaning you can play old
playstation games on them as well as the newer ones. I personally own
a playstation portable and I love it but am also looking into getting
one of the nonportable ones for home use. As I commented in another
message it will probably be a playstation 2 as the ps3 is just too
expensive right now.
I would definitely agree with Thomas that you should start with
something relatively simple like one of the fighting games such as
Tekken or Mortal Kombat even if you are not sure that you like that
kind of game. If you start with something too complicated too soon or
you have a bad experience and run into an unplayable game too soon
then you are more likely to get frustrated and give up. As he says
you are going to need to memorize the game menus e.g. press down arrow
three times and press the X key, then press down arrow twice and press
X again things like that. Fortunately most of the menus at least on
the psp seem to make a sound when you press a direction key so you
know that it took, I would assume that at least the other Sony
consoles are similar. Once you are into the game itself then you will
find it is a matter of memorizing moves and combos and quite a bit of
trial and error especially at first. It is easy to get frustrated and
give up and I imagine quite a few people do at this point but just
stick with it. The thing to remember is that although you will
probably never be as good as a sighted player at most of these
mainstream games so long as you can play it far enough to have fun and
you feel you've gotten your money's worth that is what is important.
I still only have the one game that I can play on the psp that is
Tekken dark resurrection but I have a blast with it and play it all
the time and have not tired of it yet. One option for trying games
out that might be convenient for us is gamefly.com, this is a service
similar to netflix where you get a certain number of games sent to you
per month depending on how much you pay them. It starts at ten or
fifteen bucks a month or something along those lines, I've considered
it but haven't actually taken the plunge yet.
Well that's enough for now, feel free to drop me a note if I can help
you more. Happy gaming.
Tom
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Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2008 9:38 PM
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Subject: [Audyssey] Mainstream games
What mainstream games are accessible for blind people?
lindsay Cowell
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