Our sighted 10 year old son enjoys having us play games on the Wii with him,
but I get frustrated because with bowling, for instance, as you mentioned, I
don't know which pins are still standing, and Deven has to aim for me so I
can have a shot at knocking down the rest. We play Wii sports with
I often play Wii Sports Bowling with my sighted folks. The only thing they
have to do is tell me where to aim by telling me how many clicks to move the
D-pad in a given direction to aim. I do everything myself and my folks just
direct me. Then I play Wii Fit. My mom or dad makes the menu
If you are the only person in the room, can you play the games with
accuracy? If not, then it is not accessible in my opinion.
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- Original Message -
From: Bryan Peterson bpeterson2...@cableone.net
To: Rhonda Scott earthmag...@sbcglobal.net; Gamers Discussion list
Unless you're a pro at keeping your hand steady and in the same place
everytime memorizing the placement of the menus won't help because you might
hold the controller in a different spot the next time and that thing is
delicate like I said in another post I spent 2 hours trying to find the menu
I've never tried it but I've heard of people being able to do it.
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- Original Message -
From: Charles Rivard woofer...@sbcglobal.net
To: Gamers Discussion list
Two games I have played which are accessible are Wii Sports and Punchout.
Wii Sports: The Baseball, Boxing, and Tennis can be completely accessible, and
bowling and Golf can be done with some sighted assistance.
Punchout: The game play in this is almost completely accessible. Every
character
I've heard some game reviews about this game console that said that the
games are accessible, only to find out that the games cannot be accurately
played. For example, how can you tell what pins remain standing after you
roll your first ball in bowling? How do you know where to aim on any
The other problem with blind people playing the WII games is that one main
idea of the WII is logging your stats, so as you get better your WII
opponents get better. There is no way I have found to independently log my
stats, so to the WII'sthinking I never get better so it doesn't throw
