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Starting just a little bit after I got hurt, my kids were two and four years old. I was an avid gamer and I wanted to be able to play video games again but I couldn't wrap my head around what I could do or how. So I actually reached out to the only company I knew of at that time that I thought could help...Able Gamers...and they never contacted me back. They just left me hanging like hard core and had to figure things out on my own. I actually started experimenting with the PlayStation 2 and I had an old Nintendo 64. Anyway, I started experimenting with them, trying to re-teach myself how to play video games.
Now my quadriplegia doesn't allow me to use my fingers at all so what I ended up doing was I found a way to actually play with these controllers by holding the controller in my hand and using my finger up underneath the joystick, and I would tilt the controller with my other hand. That would allow me to get access to the left joystick so that I could move around. I used my lip on the other joystick, depending on the game, so that I could look around. I would just use my tongue and lip to press the buttons on it. So, I kept trying this out and perfected it a little bit and was able to play video games really well considering my disability.
I used to do computer classes over at the VA hospital where I would have people bring their computers in, and I'm a software engineer so I'm really good at computers. So, what I did was I kind of changed my scope in that, if they wanted to bring in their computers, I would help younger Veterans like myself, and tried to get them into gaming as well. I would bring my own console in and we would try to goof off and try to find different ways for the other Veterans to play.
Well, I started researching on the internet for different peripherals and things like that we could use and a lot of them were really expensive. Well, I kind of started putting together stuff on my
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