Typing game

It began as a sub-genre of educational games designed to familiarize players with keyboard use and to improve skill at touch typing.

Successfully typing a letter or word is tied to an action, such as firing a weapon at an attacking space ship.

More formal educational software like Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing (1987) incorporates minigames as a practice option.

Broderbund's Master Type, released in 1981 for the Apple II and Atari 8-bit computers, is similar to the Space Zap arcade game; shooting an attacker requires pressing the correct key in time.

was noted as being an "accidental" typing game, as despite the fact that it was a fan remake of an initially controller-based series, the move to personal computers necessitated the addition of keyboard controls.