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So where is the HD remake of Mavis Beacon’s penguin typing game?Stop remastering last-gen shooters and remake the classic we need
Stop remastering last-gen shooters and remake the classic we need
We’re drowning in remakes and remasters. Big publishers are rereleasing every game which is older than three years and sold at least thirty copies. Some of these remakes, I suspect, sold as few as seven copies. But they’re ‘IP’, precious intellectual properties to be recycled and rebooted and combined in new forms until the sun burns out in the sky. So why have we still not seen the one we actually need: a $500 million remake of the Mavis Beacon minigame where you type words to make penguins jump across ice floes.
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I likeDead Spaceand I will watch thatDead Space remake streamtoday, but I can play Dead Space just fine today. Mavis Beacon’s penguin platformer? That’s ancient, mate. It’s a classic too, doubtless the first PC gaming experience for many people over the past 24 years. And yet publishers are spending squillions of dollars on giving characters HD haircuts. Shameful. While it was good to see typing games resurrected withTyping Of The Dead: Overkill, what I need is a fancy modern remake of the Penguin Crossing minigame from Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing 8.
I went looking for a secondhand copy and ???
Also, maybe you could host the launch party in my sixth form study room and invite my whole year as guests so I can again wow them with my WPM while trying to avoid explaining “because I’m up until 4am on IRC” as how I learned to type so fast.
