The Typing of The Dead - Releases

Releases

The Typing of the Dead was originally released for arcades in Japan in 1999 with a special cabinet equipped with dual QWERTY keyboards. The game was one of the first developments by Smilebit, a team of Sega developers that had recently spun off as a new company.

The first home console release was for the Japanese Dreamcast market on March 30, 2000. The North American release took place the following January. A PC port was produced by Empire Interactive and released in September 2001. It was made available on GameTap in October 2007.

The most recent port of the game was The Typing of the Dead: Zombie Panic for the PlayStation 2. This version was released exclusively in Japan in late December 2004 and was packaged with a USB keyboard. The game was mostly unchanged, a disappointment to observers who had hoped for an update of the graphics, although the Dreamcast backpacks were replaced with PS2 backpacks and new minigames were incorporated into the main story.

A sequel, The Typing of the Dead 2, was released to arcades in 2007. This version was a revision of The House of the Dead III and, as of 2008, has only been released in Japan. Sega has announced production of English of the Dead, another revision of House of the Dead 2 for the Nintendo DS designed as a language-learning game. A revised PC version of the game, The Typing of the Dead: Featuring Minna no Shuushoku Katsudou Nikki, features a "Job Hunting" mode designed to help people find jobs.