That’s all you need to know about The Typing of the Dead’s story, because once you start playing, you’ll be too busy frantically typing away at zombies to care about anything else.

Only your character a special agent armed with a Dreamcast console and keyboard can stop him. The Typing of the Dead’s “story,” such as it is, concerns a mad scientist’s attempt to create an army of zombies, led by a super zombie “emperor,” to rule the world. What other game lets you type zombies to death?

The Typing of the Dead certainly looks dated, considering its age and the number of times it’s been ported onto different platforms, but it’s also surprisingly fun. This unusual game actually has a history: It originally debuted on Sega’s Dreamcast console in 2000 and was itself a modified version of Sega’s previously released light-gun arcade game, The House of the Dead 2. The Typing of the Dead is an offbeat first person puzzle action game for the PC that lets you fight hordes of gruesome zombies by quickly typing out words that appear onscreen. The Typing of the Dead certainly looks dated, but it’s also surprisingly fun.

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