The only significant difference is that you’ve swapped your gun for a keyboard. The reason it plays like a fully realized game is that TotD is essentially an official mod of the already excellent House of the Dead 2. Plus it’s got more bloody reanimated corpses than Mario Teaches Typing. There have been plenty of edutainment titles aimed at teaching li’l Billy how to touch type, but the only one I know that is fun enough to truly call itself a game is the infamous Typing of the Dead. But just in case you end up having to sustain your miserable failure of a life through an endless string of soul-numbing temp jobs… Well, let’s make sure you can type. Now you know I want you to grab for that brass ring with all your might.

They don’t even have to sign their name legibly. Of course, after barely making it into community college, and then being promptly expelled for introducing the dean’s daughter to a little move I’ve since dubbed “the reverse Dutch toboggan ride”, I had to let that dream go.ĭoctors don’t have to type, Billy. Seems funny now, of course, but at the time I was dead serious. I can remember the halcyon days of my youth.

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