Sega's Typing of the Dead: A Zombie-Slaying Education
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Date: 2022-04-14
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draketheduelist
One touch I absolutely adored was the game's take on the Magician fight. To really get across the idea of it being the quarter-sucker it was in the arcade, if you typo at any point in the first phase, Magician will straight up smack you. They say the final boss should be the final exam of all the skills you've learned thus far, and I can't think of a boss in video games that makes that more literal than TotD's Magician. And I will -never- tire of that boss theme!
Hope the 2021 remake of House of the Dead gets a typing tutor version as well, just out of tradition at this point, and so the TotD Magician fight can take its place as the final boss fight it deserves to be.
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One touch I absolutely adored was the game's take on the Magician fight. To really get across the idea of it being the quarter-sucker it was in the arcade, if you typo at any point in the first phase, Magician will straight up smack you. They say the final boss should be the final exam of all the skills you've learned thus far, and I can't think of a boss in video games that makes that more literal than TotD's Magician. And I will -never- tire of that boss theme!
Hope the 2021 remake of House of the Dead gets a typing tutor version as well, just out of tradition at this point, and so the TotD Magician fight can take its place as the final boss fight it deserves to be.
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King
Wait wait wait, TYPING of the Dead in ARCADE CABINETS! Like at the arcade, there were cabinets with qwerty keyboards instead of light guns? Omg that would have been so much more badass, and imagine how kid's typing skills would have improved.
-Edit: - 1: 20 -Oni is repetitive and unspired-! Nooooooo. so harsh. How about -Incredible 3rd person fighting game with amazing combat is limited in potential by its shortsighted level design. -
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Wait wait wait, TYPING of the Dead in ARCADE CABINETS! Like at the arcade, there were cabinets with qwerty keyboards instead of light guns? Omg that would have been so much more badass, and imagine how kid's typing skills would have improved.
-Edit: - 1: 20 -Oni is repetitive and unspired-! Nooooooo. so harsh. How about -Incredible 3rd person fighting game with amazing combat is limited in potential by its shortsighted level design. -
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Joshua
I had the Dreamcast version of this, where it became known as the Secretary Maker.
It was capable of local same-screen multiplayer.
I guess they couldn't put it into the PC version because of several reasons, most notably that, well, computers don't normally have a way to differentiate between mutliple keyboards connected, assuming you HAD multiple keyboards connected (a thing most people don't think of.
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I had the Dreamcast version of this, where it became known as the Secretary Maker.
It was capable of local same-screen multiplayer.
I guess they couldn't put it into the PC version because of several reasons, most notably that, well, computers don't normally have a way to differentiate between mutliple keyboards connected, assuming you HAD multiple keyboards connected (a thing most people don't think of.
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Martius
Eh, I wish it could be re-released on GOG. In opposite to Typing of the Dead: Overkill, first Typing of the Dead seems to be much better adjusted for -typing- training, but still with solid -game- portion (second is not surprise, since it's HotD 2. Overkill seems to be rather focused on -game- part. Thanks to this game, I've learned to type with tremendous speed, which was extremely useful during my studies.
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Eh, I wish it could be re-released on GOG. In opposite to Typing of the Dead: Overkill, first Typing of the Dead seems to be much better adjusted for -typing- training, but still with solid -game- portion (second is not surprise, since it's HotD 2. Overkill seems to be rather focused on -game- part. Thanks to this game, I've learned to type with tremendous speed, which was extremely useful during my studies.
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Jaqen
What are the chances that person just sold you a burned copy of an emulated version of the game w/ decent label reproduction on the cd and that's why the topps cards were in there and probably some other stuff was missing? After all with how expensive those games are selling for counterfeits are bound to be a thing. It would explain the resolution thing and why the colors are all washed out.
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What are the chances that person just sold you a burned copy of an emulated version of the game w/ decent label reproduction on the cd and that's why the topps cards were in there and probably some other stuff was missing? After all with how expensive those games are selling for counterfeits are bound to be a thing. It would explain the resolution thing and why the colors are all washed out.
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Hagel
The capability for Windows to recognise and differentiate between different plugged in keyboards didn't exist in older Windows operating systems. It became possible later. It's unfortunate, but not Sega's fault when making this game.
These days, it's possible with the newer windows API (and there are input libraries which make this possible.
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The capability for Windows to recognise and differentiate between different plugged in keyboards didn't exist in older Windows operating systems. It became possible later. It's unfortunate, but not Sega's fault when making this game.
These days, it's possible with the newer windows API (and there are input libraries which make this possible.
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Zigeal-Faust
My middle school teacher actually used this game to teach us how to type.
So yes, it was actually used in a classroom in America to teach intercity kids how to type because we all thought Mavis Beacon was boring af.
And the funny thing is our school had the best typers in the city that year.
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My middle school teacher actually used this game to teach us how to type.
So yes, it was actually used in a classroom in America to teach intercity kids how to type because we all thought Mavis Beacon was boring af.
And the funny thing is our school had the best typers in the city that year.
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WindowHero
So, I can confirm that this has indeed been used in a classroom to teach better typing, but not in the way you might think. It was over a decade after the game came out, in a high school class, and was kind of treated as a joke extra credit assignment for if you got ahead in class.
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So, I can confirm that this has indeed been used in a classroom to teach better typing, but not in the way you might think. It was over a decade after the game came out, in a high school class, and was kind of treated as a joke extra credit assignment for if you got ahead in class.
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ichigokarasu
I used to do stuff like the Donkey Kong cards, regularly. If I had finished building a piece of IKEA furniture, instead of throwing away the instructions, I'd take them to a public bathroom and leave them on the back of a toilet. Yeah, I'm not right in the head.
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I used to do stuff like the Donkey Kong cards, regularly. If I had finished building a piece of IKEA furniture, instead of throwing away the instructions, I'd take them to a public bathroom and leave them on the back of a toilet. Yeah, I'm not right in the head.
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Chris
I actually have this game on Steam and have played half of it. It-s pretty addicting with the very strange phrases and sentences you have to type. but yeah weird game.
I think the one I played had Overkill in the title? Maybe that-s a newer version
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I actually have this game on Steam and have played half of it. It-s pretty addicting with the very strange phrases and sentences you have to type. but yeah weird game.
I think the one I played had Overkill in the title? Maybe that-s a newer version
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