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Kids on Keys

published by Spinnaker Software

198315
PCDOSCommodore 64Apple IIAtari 8-bitZX SpectrumVIC-20MSXTRS-80 CoCoBBC Micro

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This is a collection of three mini-games designed to drill in some basic reading and typing skills to the young microcomputer user of the early '80s. The first of the three games (each with four skill levels, demanding faster reflexes) presents the player with falling letters which must be typed correctly before hitting the bottom of the screen... and eventually the game's mascot floats down defying the player to type in an entire word. The second game takes word-typing as a given skill, as the player is now in charge of typing in the full names of icons of common household objects gradually floating down the screen. In the third game, an object is named on the bottom of the screen and the player must punch in the correct number corresponding to the object's icon, displayed on screen.

The second and third games have bonus rounds whose gameplay is as the regular rounds, except that the icons are now partially obscured, demanding a certain exercise of player memory faculties.

Ways to play

Modes

Single player

Languages

1 languages, with audio, subtitles and interface
Languageaudiosubtitlesinterface
English—

Also known as

Teclas Divertidas — Spanish title

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Released

1983

Platforms

PCDOSCommodore 64Apple IIAtari 8-bitZX SpectrumVIC-20MSXTRS-80 CoCoBBC MicroElectron

Tags

Real-timeArcadeMental trainingPre-school / toddlerReading / writingTyping