Mavis Beacon Ate My Brain!
You may be familiar with the classic Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing* series of software from Broderbund.
You play it interactively courtesy of the always amazing Internet Archive.
Well, Sega’s sublime Typing of the Dead is like Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing... if Mavis Beacon was a flesh-eating zombie!!
Any self-respecting software developer should be a decent typist. Now you can prove how much of a keyboard ninja you really are, because here’s the best part: Typing of The Dead supports 2-player competitive network play, with comprehensive post-game stat tracking.
It’s hard to explain just how wondrously bizarre Typing of the Dead is. It’s a challenging, remarkably well thought out typing tutor, a tongue-in-cheek b-grade zombie movie, and the most hilarious multiplayer game experience you’ll probably ever have – all at the same time.
As a zombie enthusiast, I bought Typing of the Dead immediately after it was released in 2001, but it's probably easier to play the 2013 update, The Typing of the Dead: Overkill.
Now sit back and watch the hilarity ensue. It’s pure genius.
* Interestingly, Mavis Beacon isn’t a real person. She’s an imaginary identity created entirely for the purpose of marketing. So I guess that puts her somewhere in between, say, Peter Norton and Carmen Sandiego.
