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Powered wheel chair playing

By DCRand

4 years ago



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    #1 4 years ago

    I have a friend in a powered wheelchair. Have read a couple of forum threads on playing in a chair, but they focused on non-powered chair accessibility. My friend is paralyzed from the chest down. He has pretty much full use of his arms, but hands are slightly clenched and no use of fingers. Would ideally like to find something that would allow him to play any game. His chair has an option of raising the seat about 2' so he can get to a head height of about 5'. But that also raises his feet so they would hit the front of the cabinet. My thought was a device he could put in his lap that would allow him to hit big buttons, maybe a modified solid state ball fire button. With the buttons wired into the flipper switches. Maybe even using alligator clips on wires run through the coin door so I could connect and disconnect the "device" to any of my games.

    Any ideas, critiques of my idea, would be appreciated.

    #2 4 years ago
    Quoted from DCRand:

    I have a friend in a powered wheelchair. Have read a couple of forum threads on playing in a chair, but they focused on non-powered chair accessibility. My friend is paralyzed from the chest down. He has pretty much full use of his arms, but hands are slightly clenched and no use of fingers. Would ideally like to find something that would allow him to play any game. His chair has an option of raising the seat about 2' so he can get to a head height of about 5'. But that also raises his feet so they would hit the front of the cabinet. My thought was a device he could put in his lap that would allow him to hit big buttons, maybe a modified solid state ball fire button. With the buttons wired into the flipper switches. Maybe even using alligator clips on wires run through the coin door so I could connect and disconnect the "device" to any of my games.
    Any ideas, critiques of my idea, would be appreciated.

    A company did this to a handful of games like Super Mario. It was called Arcade Action I believe? There is a thread on here about it as well. They made extremely large buttons that controlled each flipper as well as a button for the auto-launch

    #4 4 years ago

    Thanks for the info, looking into a couple of the ideas.

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