Blind gamer Jordan Verner of Ontario, Canada recently conquered Nintendo's Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. The 1998 game was released over 10 years ago for the Nintendo 64 and the Nintendo GameCube.
The journey began over two years ago when gamer Roy Williams, a Wisconsin resident, discovered a YouTube video where Verner asked other players to help him win the game. Williams described this as a "cry for help" and with the help of three other Legend of Zelda fans, created an extremely detailed step-by-step instruction manual that described every action that led to the game's ending.
"Every time we make a move, we roll, jump, do anything, we type down on the computer exactly what we're doing," Williams told CNN. Once Verner received the manual, he had his computer read it back to him as he played the game.
"I felt great, I felt strong. I felt like the sky's the limit," said Verner after his victory
When Verner first placed his video on YouTube, he wasn't sure that anyone would come to his assistance. "I thought that's far from reality. That's more fantasy than the game itself."
What made Roy William so eager to help Verner? As a young child, he had been told that there was a chance that he could go blind.
"I'm glad everyone can see and learn from this that just because a person has a disability doesn't mean they can't do a normal thing, like play a video game," Williams stated.
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