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Mario Teaches Typing is an educational video game developed and published by Interplay for MS-DOS compatible operating systems, Microsoft Windows, and Macintosh. The game uses the Mario character, licensed from Nintendo, to teach keyboard skills.

Mario Teaches Typing
Developer(s)	Interplay Entertainment
Publisher(s)	Interplay Entertainment
Series	Mario
Platform(s)	MS-DOS,[1] Windows,[2] Macintosh[1]
Release	1992 1995 (Macintosh)[3]
Genre(s)	Educational
Mode(s)	Single-player

Gameplay

Mario Teaches Typing includes three selectable characters: Mario, Luigi and Princess Peach. The game displays two pairs of hands which show which finger to use; for example, if the player has to type "A", the leftmost finger is highlighted. If the player makes an error, the cursor does not advance until they enter the correct key. After time ends, the exercise ends and a chalkboard screen appears, displaying statistics on how well the player performed, including words per minute.

Development and release

The CD-ROM version of the game was produced by Thomas R. Decker, a producer for Interplay whose past titles included Mario's Game Gallery and Kingdom: the Far Reaches.[3]

The game was released in the United States in 1992 and in the United Kingdom in 1993.[4]

Reception

The game sold more than 800,000 copies.[6]

Steve Fountain of the Evening Sentinel reviewed the Windows version, stating "Mario Teaches Typing is less fun than a normal computer game, but a whole lot better than ploughing through a dull typing manual"[2]

A sequel to the game, Mario Teaches Typing 2, was developed by Brainstorm and published by Interplay in 1997.[7]

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