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Accessible Gaming Museum

Accessible Gaming Museum. Chris Myers playing one-switch accessible Shenmue Darts at a gaming convention.

The incomplete history of Accessible Gaming:

Welcome to the OneSwitch Game Accessibility Museum. A home for seldom shared stories, hardware and games that opened up gaming for disabled people around the world.

WIP: BBC Micro history and Chapter 15 of the OneSwitch 100 slow project.

Latest History blog posts.

OneSwitch 100

One Switch 100 book cover. A WAIT pedestrian crossing push button.

A history of game accessibility and one-switch gaming.

Fascinating and seldom told stories, games,  photos, videos and reading material galore.

Game Accessibility Talks

Game Accessibility History talks. Spiral with Game Accessibility Info symbol inside.

A mix of talks and some articles on game accessibility history.


Accessible Gaming Pioneers

Pioneers of Accessible Gaming.

A brief history of game accessibility from the 1960's to the modern age. (2005)

BBC Micro

BBC Micro computer. Light yellow/beige wedge 8bit computer with CUB monitor.

The revolutionary 8-bit Acorn BBC Micro computer, the Computer Literacy project and it's massive impact. An Assistive Technology and Accessible gaming archive.

Blind Gaming History

Visually impaired man using an Optacon camera-pen with tactile feedback unit to feel the screen output.

Some blind and visually impaired gaming history.


Boosted

Boosted gamer. Cartoon of a small child standing on a crate so they can play an upright arcade game.

The first accessibility mod for arcade and video games?  "Boosted Little People" (2022).

Cheats and Mods

Bloody Cheats

Cheating for better and recently far worse accessibility.

Supporting page for GAconf 2024 talk, Bloody Cheats.

Classic Gaming Expo 2005

Accessible Gaming at the Classic Gaming Expo UK

Photos of One Switch exhibiting Accessible Games at the UK Classic Gaming Expo. (2005)

Game Accessibility Information Symbol

Game Accessibility Information Symbol (aka The Joypad Rider).

Free to use Game Accessibility Information symbol. Use to bring attention to access features in any game product (2012)

One Handed Gaming

One Handed Gaming.

One Handed Gaming through the ages (2022).

Physical Barriers in Video Games

Physical Barriers in Video Games

An accessible gaming article aimed at Game Developers.

Barrie Ellis (2006)

Playstation PC interface

Playstation, CD, DVD Switch Interface.

Instructions and ideas for one of the first accessibility controllers for the Sony Playstation. A switch adapted Namco Arcade Stick. (1996, 2001)

Shaking Things Up

Physical Barriers in Video Games

Can full-body games become more accessible?

Dimitris Grammenos ICS-FORTH (2012)

Special Effect: Game Access History Exhibit

Game Access History Exhibit 2017

Game Access history exhibit. Part of the SpecialEffect 10th Anniversary celebrations. (2017)

Thurrock Care Switch Programmes

BBC Micro Switch Programmes.

Instructions for the BBC Micro "Thurrock Care Switch Programmes" set-up. (1995, 2000)

Virtual Reality

Accessible Virtual and Artificial Reality

Some history on accessible Augmented and Virtual Reality.










 


Top image: Christopher Myers playing a SEGA Dreamcast Shenmue darts using head-switches at CGE-UK 2 (2005).

 

 
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