Well, back in around 1983, when was still sighted, when we got our commodore
64, along with it my father got a book on learning to program, and one of
the first examples we retyped in was an underwater fish swimming game, so I
think that was around the very first computer game I played after taking
around 4 hours to type it all in since had never done more typing on
anything more than like 1 school project, where had had to get my mother to
give me a letter saying that I had in fact typed it myself before the
teacher would even give me marks for it.
Apart from that, me and my friends who also had commodores, spectrums etc.
would spend weekend sleepovers playing around with software/hardware,
including some game playing, and when we moved over to PCs - old XT, with
something like 16mb ram - we spent most of the time playing sort of
interactive fiction adventures like kings quest etc., but also things like
pole position formula 1 racing, donkey kong, asteroids, elevator action,
goblins revenge (that's the one q9 reminds me of), mario brothers, prince of
persia, doom, quake, duke nukem 3d, etc., and all the way from there it was
just exploring/finding new games and types of games.
The 3 games that played more than any others when could see were the
original interactive fiction version of the hobbit, world superbikes racing
2001, and a version of pool/snooker that used to sometimes even play while
doing software support over the phone since when you were just telling the
customer standard sets of instructions, it sometimes seemed better to
distract part of your brain...<smile>
Near the end of my sighted time, it was things like need for speed, serious
sam, unreal, half life, worms, return to castle wolfenstein, age of empires,
star and warcraft, etc.
Since becoming B1 and getting back onto computers in 2006 I think the very
first game was told about was that chess game that only
works with jaws, but then I think that got me started looking, and can't
remember where/why heard about/found it, but I found out about
kitchensinc.net, and from there it's just been looking around until I found
audiogames.net, and this was all in 2006.
Stay well
Jacob Kruger
Blind Biker
Skype: BlindZA
'...fate had broken his body, but not his spirit...'
----- Original Message -----
From: "dark" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, April 05, 2010 9:42 PM
Subject: [Audyssey] How did you start?
Hi.
all this talk about if Is getting me a litle nostalgic, so i thought a
topic about how people got into audio games and such might be fun.
For me, I'd always played what graffical games my eyesite could cope with,
first on an atari 2600 (at age 3 and 4), then an amstrad cpc computer
(similar to a comador 64), a comador amigar and finally a Snes (which i
stil own).
But in the mid 90's with the 32 bit 3D era, the number of games I could
play dropped from about thirty percent, to almost none.
Though I used a laptop for school work, and university, it never occurred
to me I could do anything with it bar write. Yes, I had the D&D manuals
and used it to do some tabletop gaming in about 99-2000 before I went to
uni, but I never actually thought of games.
It wasn't until 2003, that I saw an artical in a braille publication
mentioning tom lorimers' whitestick.co.uk site and accessible computer
games.
Despite a lot of net access shinanigans (hal version 5 and internet access
was fairly new at that stage), I found toms' site, and played a number of
online games like ashes of angels and legend of the green dragon.
I do remember checking the offline games page, but A, the idea of a game
with sound I found rather bizarre, and B, I was stil using a five year old
laptop with windows 98. I did however play a lot of if.
Things went on. I started on Sryth in late 2004, bought an xp desktop in
mid 2005, then ran into Bryan peterson. When finding we both had
defficient eyeballs and an interest in exploration games he directed me
towards shades of doom (I stil remember sitting up all night playing it),
and by degrees audiogames.net.
Sinse this corresponded with me finishing my masters and for various
confusing academic reasons having a lot of free time, i signed up to the
audiogames.net forum in 2006, and spent the next few months trying almost
the entire audiogames.net database, signing up to the audeasy list
somewhere along the line.
And the rest is history.
Beware the Grue!
Dark.
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