[vip_students] Re: wii experience

Sounds great Joe Good luck with the Wii Fit and let us know how you get
on with it My grandson also has WII so I must make enquiries.  Derry
 
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[mailto:vip_students-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of joe bollard
Sent: 04 January 2010 11:58
To: vip students
Subject: [vip_students] wii experience
 
hello friends, and a happy new year to all on the list, perhaps i might
get my legs slapped for this message, but it is about technology,and
apologies if the message is somewhat long, over the christmas period i
had my first experience with wii, to make a long story short, we had a
christmas party at my son's house, he has two children, one aged ten and
a little genius aged five, he is a computer wiz kid he was given a wii
play station for christmas, this included a games section, during dinner
he was telling me all about these wonderful games that one can play with
wii, so after dinner we headed for the playroom, he explained to me
about the games, "you couldn't play tennis granddad, because you can't
see the ball bouncing but you could play golf,",, he then proceeded to
explain to me about how the golf was set up, you have a piece of
equipment like a remote control that is the golf club, when the screen
is set up for golf you swing the remote and bring it through, you can
hear the club hitting the ball, and it is here that you need sighted
assistance, to tell you where the ball is situated, after a while ai
grasped the idea, and eight of us started a golf tournament, putting  on
the green requires a little skill, but i finished up fifth of eight in
the tournament, but then we turned to ten pin bowling, fantastic, again
using the remote as a bowling ball, [you don't let go of it when you
bowl] you can hear the ball rolling down the lane, and hitting the
skittles, there are ten skittles, and once again it's here you need
sighted assistance to tell you how many skittles are left standing, my
grandson then explained to me how you can bowl the ball down the right
or left side of the lane, there arrow keys at the top of the remote, if
you want to knock the left skittle down you press the left arrow wait
for it, i finished second of eight in the bowling tournament, and  it
was fantastic to be able to join in the games with the rest of the
sighted players now i am interested in taking a look at the wii fit,
it's a keep fit programme  and i want to see if it's blind friendly i
need to get rid of some excess weight provided by mince pies, christmas
pudding, chocolates etc, but this wii experience was a great bit of fun,
has anyone on the list had any experience of it, sorry for the long
narative, take care, travel safely, joe.

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