A Mario Game I never knew about!

http://www.mobygames.com/game/sheet/gameid,3914

I knew about the Mario Edutainment titles on the SNES, but never knew Nintendo had a PC game out. Found a cheap copy the other day it looks pretty cool, it's the Mac version so I can't play it unless I find a friend that has a Mac to try it on. I may look for the other PC version. Typing games are cool, hah I could use it, I've taken a few typing courses and speed 10 key in College and the truth is I was never that good. So Typing of the Dead is very useful to me.

So has anyone played Mario teaches Typing?

Hey! One of my father's cousins used to had that. It seemed like a nifty little program from what I've seen back then. I know there were a few more Mario Edutainment titles for the PC (as a matter of fact, Mario is Missing and Time Machine were originally PC games).

Really? I thought they were original SNES games. I played
Mario is Missing with this younger kid I used to know it
was like at a Jr High level or lower from what I recall, but
it's been so long.

holy shit i know what this is. This girl Tatiana loved that game, she was asking me if i had it earlier tonight.

Yep. I remember seeing the PC version of Mario is Missing on sale at Electronics Boutique long before the SNES version was announced. I wondered back then why it wasn't made for the SNES. It looked somewhat different from it's SNES counterpart (but that because the SNES version used recycled graphics from Super Mario World).

http://www.the-underdogs.org/game.ph...rio+is+Missing
http://www.the-underdogs.org/game.php?id=2171

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Originally Posted by Korian

So has anyone played Mario teaches Typing?

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I can type "What's a matta you" so fast it'll make your head spin. :chick:

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Originally Posted by cka

I can type "What's a matta you" so fast it'll make your head spin. :chick:

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Mama mia! Here we gooooooooooo.... :chick:

Played it back in the day. For teaching kids typing it probably was one of the more inventive ideas. Sort of like typing of the Dead but back in the day.

I used to use that back in the day. I liked it alot but I don't think it helped me any. I'm sure it all boils down to me not applying myself in earnest.

Pa

My Mom had Mario Teaches Typing on her Performa 500. I used to play the hell out of that (helped my speed up my typing considerably).

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Originally Posted by PaCrappa

I used to use that back in the day. I liked it alot but I don't think it helped me any. I'm sure it all boils down to me not applying myself in earnest.

Pa

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Same here pretty much. I remember liking it but I never used it consistently enough to improve much. I think I finally learned touch typing in Jr. High.

They used that in our junior high to teach typing. Only problem was only 5 computers in the entire school could actually run it.

Now that I think of it, those comps also had LucasArts games like Indiana Jones and Monkey Island too.

I had that game back on my old Macintosh. It was neat. Depending on how difficult you wanted the lessions to be would reflect which character you used (Peach, Luigi and Mario) and it would go through different Mario 1 looking stages, but with (From what I remember) pretty sweet 2D graphics and animation.
For a die hard Mario fan, it was great.

I think I still have this on CD-ROM somewhere. I had problems running it because it kept complaining about lack of high memory or something stupid like that, so my friend made a special boot disk for me to run it. But I've since lost that boot disk. :(

Anywho, I remember you run around a level similar to SMB 1-1 hitting question mark blocks when you type the correct letter in the block. I think another one was Mario flying with his cape but I'm not sure... it was a fun little game, now I have to try Typing of the Dead..