Oh they've been in the states since at least the nineties. I remember my
sister babysat a kid who was obsessed with those cartoons.
Life, don't talk to me about life.
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From: Thomas Ward
Sent: Saturday, June 09, 2012 7:24 PM
To: Gamers Discussion list
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] board games for the blind - Re: Accessible Checkers
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 <d...@xgam.org> 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.
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