Amazing: Blind Man Beats Zelda 64 With Help From Fellow Gamers

We all felt pretty good after figuring out the harder puzzles in Legend of Zelda: The Ocarina of Time, but that’s nothing compared to the feat of Jordan Verner of Ontario, Canada, who beat the Nintendo 64 classic despite being blind. A couple years ago, Verner uploaded some videos of himself playing parts of Zelda 64. On a lark, he asked if anyone would help him finish the entire game. Roy Williams, of Camden, N.C., took on the job with three other gamers, blindfolding themselves and writing down everything they did.

Helping Verner required a script that laid out every single move. “Every time we make a move, we roll, jump, do anything, we type down on the computer exactly what we’re doing,” Williams told a local NBC affiliate. The completed script, for a speedrun of the game, consisted of over 100,000 keystrokes, written in a text file that Verner’s computer would dictate back to him. Beating the game took two years, where a sighted gamer could get through it in about a week. “I felt great. I felt strong. I felt like the sky’s the limit,” Verner said. File this heartwarmer away for the next time someone tells you video games are a worthless, anti-social hobby. [WISTV via Boing Boing]