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Kumdor no Ken 1991

ASCII Corporation · Mac, PC-9800 Series

In this touch-typing JRPG for PC-98, created by Michiaki Tsubaki with ASCII, you play as the Milky Way's #1 typist, summoned to planet Kumdor to fight mysterious monsters with typographic magic — but you lose all your keyboard keys and your QWERTY skills in a crash landing. Worse yet, the planet suffers from a petrified economy and natural disasters. Can … In this touch-typing JRPG for PC-98, created by Michiaki Tsubaki with ASCII, you play as the Milky Way's #1 typist, summoned to planet Kumdor to fight mysterious monsters with typographic magic — but you lose all your keyboard keys and your QWERTY skills in a crash landing. Worse yet, the planet suffers from a petrified economy and natural disasters. Can you recover your skills, prove your identity, and save the world?

The game has a surreal atmosphere, quirky dialogue, and a distinctive visual style. It also features a control scheme built entirely around touch typing, using no directional keys or joypad input. By improving your typing accuracy and agility, you must travel across a classic JRPG overworld, helping people and fighting off monsters to improve yourself. Read more

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Details

Developers
ASCII Corporation
Publishers
ASCII Corporation
Genres
Adventure, Role-playing (RPG)
Themes
Comedy, Educational, Science fiction
Also known as
Sword of Kumdor · Sword of Kumdor - Master of Blind Touch (Japanese title, translated)
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Released

  1. 1991
    • Oct 25 PC-9800 Series · Japan
  2. 1994
    • Dec 1 Mac · Japan