Mike Begum - Handicapped Competitive Gamer

[8bitgamer]

If you haven't heard of Mike "Brolylegs" Begum, a competitive gamer who overcomes a tremendous disability to compete, check out my article:

http://www.brettweisswords.com/2014/08/mike-begum-competitive-gamer.html

Thanks for reading!

[CatPix]

Wow.

Well written and very interesting.

 

It reminds me that an association I'm member of got a M82 from an hospital for disabled childs.

They gave with the M82 an official Nintendo TV, and a good pile of manuals for pads adapted for various problems - games adapter to play with the feet, playing with the mouth (either grabbing something, or blowing!) and other amazing stuff.

This guy didin't even needed all of those.... It's fantastic!

[Dripfree]

Wow awesome story I love reading stuff like that. My cousin suffered a stroke at birth. She lost most control of the left side of her body and had no use of her left hand. Once when she visited me and her brother were playing Mario 3. She asked for a turn. I was curious how it was going to work when I handed her the controller. Sure enough she popped that thing in her mouth. At first I was totally grossed out but then I was just impressed cuz she was really good. Later we switched to genesis and she did struggle with that. I think the controller was too big for good control with your teeth. I would have thought controlling a game this way would be impossible with modern controllers but I guess not.

[8bitgamer]

Thanks, guys.

 

Here's a brief news story about the amazing young man: