Meet Rocky, the Paralyzed Gamer Who Plays Fortnite With His Mouth! (Motivational)
15Meet Rocky, the Paralyzed Gamer Who Plays Fortnite With His Mouth! (Motivational)
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Rocky Stoutenburgh was unlucky. 11 years ago, when he was 19, he caught a nasty fall and landed in just the wrong way, severely dislocating two of his thoracic vertebrae and severing his spinal cord. The incident left him paralyzed from the neck down. Today, Rocky can hardly roll his shoulders. But remarkably, he continues to game despite his quadriplegia and streams regularly on Twitch. He racks up headshots and chicken dinners in PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds on a weekly basis and also enjoys games like For Honor and Rocket League. But getting back to the point where he could play comfortably and confidently wasn’t easy.
Relearning to play
Although Rocky was only hospitalized for a short time, he didn’t return to gaming for several years after his injury. He was preoccupied with adjusting to his condition, and there weren’t a lot of great options available for disabled gamers at the time. Then he heard about a controller designed for quadriplegics.
“My brother found a website for a gaming controller. And I kept telling him no, but then after a while we bought it and tried it out,” Rocky says. “I think I played Call of Duty and Halo Wars with it, and then I just started playing other games. The first model wasn’t a great model. It would fall apart a lot and break. After about five years, I just quit playing video games because they all broke. But then a new model came out and I started playing again.”
Rocky games on a mouth-operated device called a QuadStick. Originally prototyped by Ken Yankelevitz under the name QuadControl, the controller was later picked up by designer Fred Davison. Davison rebranded the controller and, after a successful KickStarter, launched production in 2014.
“There’s three holes on it that you can sip on or puff into,” Rocky explains. “Or you can sip on two holes at the same time, or all three at the same time. There’s all kinds of different combinations; you just have to pick what button you want at that particular time. And then there’s a button underneath that you can press with your lips.”
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