Mario Teaches Typing Enhanced CD-ROM

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Mario Teaches Typing Enhanced CD-ROM
The box art for Mario Teaches Typing
Developer Interplay
Publisher Interplay
Platforms MS-DOS, Microsoft Windows
Release date USA 1994[?]
Genre Educational
Rating
ESRB:K-A - Kids to Adults[?]
Mode Single player
Format
Home computer system:
Optical disc
Input
Home computer system:

Mario Teaches Typing Enhanced CD-ROM is an enhanced port of Mario Teaches Typing released in 1994. It was one of the first games in the Super Mario franchise in which Mario was voiced by Charles Martinet, replacing Ronald B. Ruben's performance in the floppy disk version.

Differences[edit]

Due to increased storage capacity, many changes have been made between the CD-ROM and floppy disk versions of Mario Teaches Typing. The player can now listen to a rap song by the title of "Practice Makes Perfect", which is available via pressing the "r" key or selecting "Rap" under "File". As the song is stored on the CD-ROM as a Redbook audio track, it is also possible to listen to it by placing the CD-ROM in an audio CD player.[1]

In addition, the static background Mario has been replaced with a floating Mario head, which would reappear in Mario Teaches Typing 2. It is possible to rewatch the clips of the floating Mario head by pressing the "I" key, or via selecting "M.I.R.T.", which presumably stands for Mario in Real Time, from the "File" menu.

The game also adds cutscenes, which show a story in which Mario and Luigi collect pieces of a Magical Typewriter in order to destroy Bowser's Castle.

Story[edit]

Mario and Luigi are walking by Bowser's Castle one day when they come across the Magical Typewriter floating in the air. Curious, Mario attempts to type on it. However, he proves to be a bad typist, typing the following:

Nok ix is tge the tine flfo4 for alll godd men to coome 2 too

Before Mario can go on any further, the Magical Typewriter explodes. In place of the typewriter appears a scroll, which is also floating in the air. Mario takes it and sees a picture of three pieces of the Magical Typewriter with the words "FIND ME..." Mario and Luigi decide to recover all of the typewriter's pieces and improve Mario's typing skills.

As Mario stomps a Koopa Troopa, a Mushroom falls from the sky, then transforms into the first piece of the typewriter, which is added into the scroll. Mario and Luigi then walk up to the bridge over the river, only to find that there is a large gap in the middle of the bridge. As the brothers watch Cheep Cheeps leap from the river, Mario shrugs and dives into the river, only to end up being chased by the Cheep Cheeps. Luigi eventually jumps on the Cheep Cheeps and dives in after Mario.

Mario and Luigi get chased by a larger group of Cheep Cheeps, disturbing a snoozing octopus. The octopus swims up and captures the Cheep Cheeps, saving Mario and Luigi. Mario and Luigi emerge at the other side of the bridge, and the octopus gives them the scroll, which now has the second typewriter piece.

Mario and Luigi then walk up to Bowser's Castle. They are surprised when the castle turns out to be alive, and it swallows them. Inside, Mario and Luigi run into a green ! Block that falls before them. Mario jumps on it, revealing the final typewriter piece, which is then added to the scroll. The brothers then escape from the castle and find a piece of paper floating down towards them. Mario lets it drift into the scroll and the paper lands in the restored typewriter. The scroll turns back into the Magical Typewriter, and Mario types on it:

Now is the time for all good men to come to our aid and...

Mario pauses and, after a moment of glancing at Bowser's Castle, resumes:

...destroy Bowser's castle!

A giant green ! Block suddenly falls from the sky and destroys Bowser's Castle.

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References[edit]

  1. ^ Legacy X – Mario Teaches Typing. Discogs (English). Retrieved April 13, 2025. (Archived April 14, 2025, 00:28:21 UTC via archive.today.)