I am D-Prime, and I can't play Bust-A-Move for Wii properly because I'm color blind.
If you didn't know, it is a puzzle game in which you stop a bunch of bubbles from falling to the ground, by shooting them down with other bubbles of the same color. Kind of like up-side down Tetris with colors instead of lines. The Playstation 2 version I had back in 2003, and the arcade version, both had colors that I could decipher between easily. But I can't quickly tell the difference between certain seperate colors in the Wii version, so it's frusturating as hell to play. That sucks, because I love Bust-A-Move.
Color blindness* is just severe enough to cause actual difficulties in one's day to day life, but not severe enough to get any sympathy. We'll never have fucking telethons on public television. Or charities for research to cure it, or ANYTHING... yet. Fascists.
* This is a misleading popular misnomer. Almost no one is literally color blind in the sense of seeing in black and white. Technically what I have is severe color deficiency where you see in color, but not as many different ones, while shades blend into eachother differently and similarities happen in different places so it's often hard to follow the regular names given or decipher between shades easy for most people.
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That sucks about Bust-A-Move Wii for you, sorry. Do you have the same problem with the DS version?
No, I am pretty certain there is no known possible cure for color-blindness. But certain genetic disorders can be cured, and they know what causes color-blindness, so I imagine a cure could be created.
Wouldn.t bubbles of the same type still be the same shade of whatever colour when seen in your eyes so that the game could still be played?
Examples:
Purple/Dark Blue
Dark Blue/Black
Orange/Red
Orange/Yellow
Green/Red
Green/Blue
Yes, two bubbles of the same shade will be the same shade to me (obviously; the may each look different but they'll match.) But two colors used were so similar to me that I couldn't tell them apart, so although I will always see them as a matching, I may see one as matching with the other even though it doesn't. Imagine if they made bust-a-move with a shade of dark orange and red that were highly similar, used two seperate colors, and you had to squint and think to make sure whether it was one or the other. They never would, as it would make the game unplayable, but for color-blind people a higher number of colors are similar, and we see similarities where others don't because we see colors differently, so incidents like the above happen.
I think that answer was almost as long as my post...
Have you played any of the old ones like Bust-A-Move 64 etc?
Glimbrick, I outright refuse to play the "what colour's this?" game now, it gets really old really quickly. My favourite question, though, has to be "so you can't tell the difference between a red light and a green light?"
It's just not a big enough issue for any massive charities to start up around. I almost never have a problem personally; I was halfway through the post before I thought hey, I'm colourblind too! It's something to do with having either deficient or insufficient cones in your eye. Until they develop retinal transplants we're just going to have to persevere, brothers.
Asking a color-blind person what color a Coke can or grass or a lot of the stupid things they ask us about would be like expecting someone who has never been to France to not know its capital.
It's amazing how people who aren't color-blind never realize we have other ways of figuring things out (like the size/position of the lights; although I can tell the difference between those three shades anyway.) It's as if aliens with eyes on the back of their head came down to Earth and were surprised we can figure out what's behind us, 'cause they'd never conceived of "turning around."
I don't think either of them are fascists; obviously that's a joke. But yes, I guess it is that company's fault, not N's.
SORRY N-GOD I LOVE YOU PLEASE FORGIVE ME.