[GameTalk] Re: Accessible games in the arcade
- From: "Charles Rivard" <wooferess@xxxxxxx>
- To: <gametalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2006 19:02:10 -0700
The reason it failed--remember the cost of that device? And, if I remember
correctly, this was a unit for home use. A dart board was manufactured that
gave voice feedback as to what you scored. It was designed so that blind
people could play darts right along with sighted dart throwers. It was the
kind of board found in bars that had a large cabinet with the board above
it. You could buy the exact same model that had no speech at Sears for
about $800, but, like anything else for the blind, this talking model cost
several thousand! I know, because the center for the blind here in Phoenix,
Arizona, bought one for their recreation room. Actually, the director of
the center and one of his friends probably put up most of the money to buy
it. Unfortunately, after he died, the board was sent somewhere else,
because the new director of the center thought that darts was a dangerous
and unsafe game for blind people to be playing. But why did this device
cost so blasted much more?? Same reteric--low demand, high cost. There
wasn't much inside the machine that was different. A sensor at each scoring
area, a few chips for speech, and some that played music, and circuitry to
run them. The parts could have been bought for $100. I've seen the verbal
schematic of how the board was built and what was needed.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dronvor" <dronvor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <gametalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, June 25, 2006 5:23 PM
Subject: [GameTalk] Re: Accessible games in the arcade
Hail All!
Some here may not remember the Game Center from Telesensory Systems
Inc. This was back in the mid-eighties. It would play 8 different
games. There was some attempt on the blind community's part back then to
do something like this but it ran aground on the reluctance of the archade
owners to try something with a limited appeal. Unless we can somehow make
the games appealable to the sighted as well as accessible, I serioously
doubt if this idea will become a reality.
Just my thoughts on the subject.
Dronvor
At 06:21 PM 6/25/2006, you wrote:
>Hello.
> I've been to several arcades before, video game arcades, where people
> gather to generally have a good time playing games on large machines
> which cannot be found in the home. They use tokens to start their game,
> and to conti nue they have to keep inserting their tokens at various
> points in their game. This is what happens with several console games.
> For example, I've seen the fighting game Tekken in both Playstation 1,
> Playstation 2, and in the arcade. N Personally, I think the same concept
> could be applied to Troopanum, Hunter, Pipe, or any other accessible game
> for that matter. It would be another way for the gaming companies to make
> money. I've been to arcades before, and in the arcade, the blind gamer
> feels slightly out of place. what do you all think?
>
> Holden
>
>o
>Holden
>Cedric, Noble Order of Long-dead Scottish knights
>Juan, the American Mexican
>Gore, from the Scrolls of King Duncan, Head of the "Manslaughter"
>Comission
>
>And also, the Lord of the Galaxy
>http://world2.monstersgame.co.uk/?ac=vid&vid=31062100
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