Mario Teaches Typing
Mario Teaches Typing is one of the few licensed Mario computer titles. As the title suggests, Mario Teaches Typing was designed for improving a computer user's typing skills. Kids with no typing experience…
Mario Teaches Typing is a video game developed by Interplay Productions, released 8 March 1992 on DOS, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Mario Teaches Typing is
Mario Teaches Typing was developed by Interplay Productions and released in 1992. It is available on DOS, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).
The premise, in the publisher's words
Mario and Luigi were walking by Bowser's Castle one day when they come across the Magical Typewriter floating in the air. Curious, Mario attempts to type on it. However, he proves to be a terrible typist. Before Mario can go on any further, the Magical Typewriter explodes. In place of the typewriter is a scroll, which is also floating in the air. Mario takes the typewriter and sees a picture of three pieces of the Magical Typewriter. Mario and Luigi decide to recover all of the pieces and improve Mario's typing skills.
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are educational. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the Mario series
Mario Teaches Typing is the 97th of 668 entries we hold in the Mario series. The next entry was Super Mario Bros. & Friends: When I Grow Up in 1992.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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