Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing is an interactive video game with a history that stretches across 5 decades - debuting initially on MS-DOS in 1986.
It has boosted the WPM typing speed of many people all over the world, and now it has a speedrunning community.
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There are people unaware of the fact that Mavis has never been a real person, her made up character isn't even consistent in appearance and they put a new model on the cover with every release. And they're happier not knowing.
The original Mavis (Mavis Ground Zero) was real but disappeared after 1995
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Correct.
Yeah it really isn’t. It’s edutainment at best and even that is stretch. It’s a typing tutor software tool.
Even still I think edutainment/educational software should be discussed here as there is no true retro-computing board.
speedrunning scene is lit
I want to FRICK Mavis Beacon
>5 decades since the 80s, what a bull-
>80s, 90s, 00s, 10s, 20s
FFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU
>80s to 90s: 1 decade
>90s to 00s: 1 decade
>00s to 10s: 1 decade
>10s to 20s: 1 decade
that's 4 decades and it won't be 5 decades until 2036
i actually met Mavis Beacon in person once. we spent a whole afternoon teaching me how to type.
when are we getting a reboot??
>Mavis Beacon
Savoir of the human cyber race, worship and fear her. You are here today because she sold more copies than any man ever did.
>The haters in this thread
Complete trash human beings that their dead body wouldn't even be picked up off the street and hobos would come piss and shit on it while everyone else laughed.
>Savoir of the human race
>Savoir
Yeah, cool that you learned to misspell words really fast, courtesy of Beavis Macon
I all remember is creating abominations.
this incarnation of her is an unironic babe. like an office milf version of rihanna
I wonder what the Japanese had similar to this.
Ive always wanted to know more about Japanese edutainment games. Only ones i know of are some math games on the Famicom and english lessons on DS. I feel like if a nip version of Reader Rabbit existed, jap learners would probably be interested in it.
There are a bunch, as you'd expect. Here's a quick overview.
https://osaifushikibu.com/archives/2021051302.html
Yea I admittedly was too lazy to search. In the same sense I'm sure enough are aware of the west's old bundled Windows games like pinball, Japan also had their own alongside those. M$ even has downloads to them that probably got updated for recent compatibily, like an ARM version.
Why wasn't Mavis Beacon in Marvel Vs Capcom 2?
Storm is in MvC2.
Janny deleting comments criticizing this unfunny meme. Turns out a janny is the Mavis Beacon shitposter? Would explain a lot.
The core gameplay of Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing is based on skill. It can be a steep learning curve at the start because each keystroke has to be nearly-perfect if you truly want to become proficient. Otherwise, you will produce several typing errors that require enough time to cancel out the effect of the high RPM that they were typed at in the first place. Becoming truly proficient with a keyboard can help out immensely when it comes to gaming and the benefit transfers into using other peripherals like D-Pads. In that sense, WPM records aren't all too different from the high score table in an old arcade game.
Okay troony janny. I taught myself typing because I'm not a low IQ moron, by the way
what's your WPM? want to race me in typeracer? i bet you're complete shit lol
>not Mavis Bacon
ugh!
This cancer has given millions of people nerve damage.
mavis walked so mario could run
Ages 6-101
I've never seen an upper limit on an age rating before