To me, stories like this prove that video games are not the evil waste of time that so many people have been stressing upon us in recent years. Much like anything, a game is as positive or negative as the person that participates with it. In this case, I would say that this would qualify as a definite positive.

Brice Mellen is a whiz at video games such as ‘Mortal Kombat’. In that regard, the 17-year-old isn’t much different from so many others his age. Except for one thing: He’s blind.

And as he easily dispatched foes who took him on recently at a Lincoln gaming centre, the affable and smiling Mellen remained humble.

“I can’t say that I’m a superpro,” he said, working the controller like an extension of his body. “I can be beaten.” Those bold enough to challenge him weren’t so lucky. One by one, while playing “Soul Caliber 2,” their video characters were decapitated, eviscerated and gutted without mercy by Mellen’s on-screen alter ego. “I’m getting bored,” Mellen said in jest after he won. [Read the rest]