#SuperOldGameSaturday - The Typing of the Dead (Dreamcast)
0Originally Recorded/Aired on October 21, 2023
For our third October 2023 Halloween block show here on #SuperOldGameSaturday, we're following up the scariest horror game on our docket this year with the funniest and with the long-awaited return of our show's first ever guest. Yes, Nocturne has returned after a 3 month hiatus for our play of perhaps the best game ever made that you never thought you wanted; The Typing of the Dead for the Dreamcast. This 2001 port of the 1999 Sega AM1 arcade game took The House of the Dead 2 and swapped out its light guns for computer keyboards, meaning that you need to type words and sentences out quickly and accurately in order to stay alive, save the citizens of an Italian city and go down multiple paths as AMS agents James Taylor and Gary Stewart on the hunt to stop the evil Goldman. Yes, this IS a real game and yes, it IS glorious, so Nocturne and I, as joined by some new and familiar faces in the best chat on Twitch, played through the entire game, showed off all of the modes, options and codes of it and savored the mix of B-horror and utter unpredictable absurdity in this game that epitomizes just why the Dreamcast was such a great system. After all, what other system maker would bring such a bizarre, but brilliantly executed game to market like this but Sega (and on a system that had tons of unique experiences already)? If Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing and Mario Teaches Typing were too tame for you, this may be the game to get (despite its high cost of entry nowadays) and, armed with two keyboards, Nocturne and I had a blast with this one AND learned a thing or two along the way, while we all went into our experiences with this game, The House of the Dead series and its other unique spin-offs, typing methodologies, edutainment programs and, of course, all of the random phrases that we ended up typing that got us into more than a few pretty big laughing fits and showed off strong typing skills by Nocturne, in particular. I'm glad that she was able to join us for this one and thank her and all of you for making this such a great show and a unique second to last Halloween 2023 entry, so warm up your fingers and hope you enjoy The Typing of the Dead (and if you like what you see here, stop by https://www.twitch.tv/captainditrag, where you can join our shows and conversations on what we play each week live, as well as see the planned time of our next stream)!
Also, here is the Link List, containing the links to everything we referenced and/or linked to in the chat for this show:
A link to our play of The House of the Dead Remake for the Nintendo Switch:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PQawzcuVtk&t=1545s
A link to the Steam page of the other US released typing twist on The House of the Dead, The Typing of the Dead Overkill, courtesy of Steam.com:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/246580/The_Typing_of_The_Dead_Overkill/
A link to a Reddit thread by wow-great that, thanks to the extraction skills of one TapamN, is the ONLY reliable source aside from our show for the password codes for The Typing of the Dead (seriously, all of the major gaming sites have codes that do not function, so listen to TapamN and us on this one), courtesy of Reddit.com:
https://www.reddit.com/r/dreamcast/comments/3eed5p/anyone_know_the_typing_of_the_deads_passwords/
A link to all of the stories that can be told on the level 4 boss of this game (I mistakenly said in the edit that it would have the correct answers to determine which ending you get, but that's dependent on if you type all truthful or untruthful answers to them; sorry for that confusion), courtesy of TapamN and Pastebin.com:
https://pastebin.com/3Tr1T7Ym
A link to our play of Namco Museum Virtual Arcade:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nz8jZA606w4&t=9473s
A link to the 1989 Billy Joel song Leningrad, courtesy of Billy Joel on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r45dbYnldMs
A link to an A rank run of the Accuracy 3 PERFECT mission from the Drill Mode of this game, courtesy of Peter TehDumb on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHcL8MfggxI
A link showing all of the possible endings of The Typing of the Dead, courtesy of Sestren NK Archives on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1g5LFYlWpkE
A link to the playlist of all our past Halloween Block shows:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrOxkvwdJ2y9SpYgpxHY_yIdoLKgBUnu7
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