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Yep 1977, part of the first ever generation of home games consoles, so intentionally blind accessible console gaming has been around for pretty much as long as games consoles have. It's called the Games Center, and it was made by TSI, the same people who made Optacon and various other blind accessibility devices in the 70s and 80s.
If anyone's anywhere near Louisville Kentucky, the APH (The American Printing House for the Blind) museum owns one of them.
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Wow. Thanks for sharing. Never heard about this.
I did a whole ass presentation on blind accessible games going all the way back to Pong and Touch Me, but somehow never came across this?
Well damn dude, thank you for sharing!
I just watched a youtube video of the audio cassette manual for the thing that was just recently posted by OneSwitch. I ended up finding it after seeing a topic linking to it in the trash forum, not sure if the topic was ment to go there or not. The question asked in said topic was to see if anyone would want to build a pc simulation of the thing for the sake of preservation. After hearing how the device works, it probably wouldn't be that hard to do, though that is assuming someone can record everything the system says on the speaker using a pickup coil or similar capture method to get clear audio. The pattle ball sounds can easily be remade in software live so those don't have to be recorded.
From the demos, it seems like the Game Center mostly speaks the numbers, plus/minus/times/equals, point, overflow, and a couple of others. Maybe all of the numbers are in that cassette manual. I'm assuming it was adapted somewhat from the calculator. Very creative for its time.
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