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You could argue, not unreasonably, that what happened here was that the exact game was ported with just another control methodology bolted on top. It certainly lacked some of the subtleties that Mavis had to offer, but its strict approach to getting you typing вЂ“ if you canвЂ™t get it right, you died, effectively вЂ“ certainly had some merit to it. While the picture on the front of the box was originally of Caribbean model Renee LвЂ™Esperance, Mavis got her name from the singer Mavis Staples, and the idea that a beacon is a guiding light. Some trivia for you, too: Mavis Beacon never existed. First introduced in 1987, Mavis Beacon Teaches Typingsoon became a hit, and the go-to application for those looking to brush up on their keyboard skills.

#TYPING OF THE DEAD PC#

At this stage, the PC typing tutor market was dominated by the Mavis Beacon series of products. ItвЂ™s worth contextualizing all of this, too. Even if you did, you were in trouble, IвЂ™ve seen a professional typist virtually brought to tears by the game. If you didnвЂ™t know your way around a computer keyboard, you werenвЂ™t getting far. If you were bold, and went on the harder levels, the game started generating nonsense words. Thus, the excitement I felt at blasting the first few zombies that appear soon gave way to ohbloodyhell as four or five clambered off the floor and started walking towards me. Or whatever the game wanted you to press.Д«ut as fast as you typed, you were never far away from another swarm. Big zombies needed lots of blasts to kill (thus, long words, and occasional sentences), smaller ones could be flicked away with a mere Z. Instead of shooting things, you typed what appeared, and every letter you got right вЂ“ assuming letters were typed in the right order, and other such demanding details вЂ“ equated to a blast from your gun. In hindsight, I think it may be one of the most stressful computer games IвЂ™ve ever played. That version did make it to the UK eventually, and itвЂ™s here where I first encountered it. Still, the game was released in 2000 (although it never got a European Dreamcast release), and a PC conversion arrived later in the year. It wasnвЂ™t always the most logical thing to explain to passers by, but personally, I tended to be too engrossed to try. The characters bashed away on words, as zombies melted away. It did it in a tongue in cheek way, as the gameвЂ™s characters now carried keyboards with them, and backpacks too, with the necessary processing power. The game really came to prominence, though, when a further Sega division, Smilebit, developed a version of Typing of the Deadfor the Sega Dreamcast.

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