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TIL after receiving many letters from blind fans of his video games, Kenji Eno sought to create one that both sighted & blind players could experience equally. So he made the blank-screen game, Real Sound: Kaze no Regret. Sega got the rights by agreeing to donate 1K consoles to the visually impaired

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