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mavisbeacon.com. Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing is an application software program designed to teach touch typing. Released in late 1987 by The Software Toolworks, the program aimed to enhance users' typing skills through a series of interactive lessons and games. Mavis Beacon is an entirely fictional character, created for marketing purposes.
1996. Genre (s) Edutainment. Kewala's Typing Adventure[a] is a 1996 Australian educational typing -themed video game, featuring a koala protagonist named Kewala. It was developed by Sydney -based software company Typequick, and localised by Japan Data Pacific for the Japanese market. The game was renamed Typequick for Students in 1997 and, by ...
This is a list of notable educational video games. There is some overlap between educational games and interactive CD-ROMs and other programs (based on player agency), and between educational games and related genres like simulations and interactive storybooks (based on how much gameplay is devoted to education).
A typing game is a genre of video games that involves correctly entering letters, words, or sentences on the keyboard. It began as a sub-genre of educational games designed to familiarize players with keyboard use and to improve skill at touch typing. Successfully typing a letter or word is tied to an action, such as firing a weapon at an ...
All-star classic word games abound - TextTwist is the grandfather of them all! In TextTwist you get a set of letters and have to make as many words as you can with the letters provided. If typing ...
Based on The Lord of the Rings. Star Trader. 1982. Bretten Au, Kevin Ryan, Kent Beck, Ron Lumsden, and James Walters. A space game originally hosted on University of Oregon 's mainframe computer. Avon. 1983. Jonathan Partington. Shakespearean adventure game originally hosted on Cambridge University 's Phoenix mainframe.
The Amazing Writing Machine. 1995. Mac, Win. Creative writing and drawing software. Ancient Art of War, The The Ancient Art of War. 1984. AppIIe, Mac, DOS. A real-time strategy video wargame. Ancient Art of War at Sea, The The Ancient Art of War at Sea.
Lucasfilm Games 1992 Adventure Commercial 7–9 Monkey Money: Monkey Shines: FantaSoft, LLC 1997 Platformer Shareware Monopoly (1987) Thomas E. Fosson 1987 Board game Commercial 6–7 Monopoly (1997) Westwood Studios 1997 Board game Commercial 7.5 Monopoly (2000) Artech Studios 2000 Board game Commercial 8.1–9.2.2 Monopoly Build-a-lot Edition