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Mario Teaches Typing

Review

This educational game uses four Mario-themed challenges to improve typing speed and accuracy through progressively difficult lessons.

Mario Teaches Typing was originally released for MS-DOS in 1992 by Interplay Entertainment, making it the earliest commercial release of this exact game version on the DOS platform and the original release year for the game.


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Platform
MS-DOS
Released
1992
Theme
Perspective
Side view
Size
956.31 KB
Version
AUTORUN.BAT
Rating
2 votes

About Mario Teaches Typing

The software presents a typing instruction program featuring characters from the Mario franchise. Players select Mario, Luigi, or the Princess to participate in several distinct activities that require keyboard input.

One activity involves navigating a tunnel by typing sentences that appear on screen to avoid hazards. Another has the character swimming away from aquatic enemies, with safety dependent on typing words scrolling along the bottom. A different scenario requires typing letters shown on obstacles to help a character run past them successfully.

The final activity functions as a challenging practice lesson, where predefined text must be copied under supervision. The four games are structured with progressing difficulty, moving from simpler letter recognition to full paragraph transcription.

Mario Teaches Typing Screenshots

10 images
Game Title
Main Menu
Selecting your teacher/character
Customizing lesson times
Type the letters shown to bust bricks and smash turtles
Your certificate
Your results
An underwater level with numbers
Another lesson type
Your report card