1. The Typing Of The Dead
Rarely does a game inspire someone to go and get an education. Even as I sit here, typing this now, I can't think where I'd be if I hadn't played The Typing of the Dead. I easily owe the decision to become a journalist to the Typing Of The Dead as it helped me learn a skill I still use today that nobody else could teach me! Despite having never been released on DC outside Japan, I managed to pick up a copy shortly after its port from arcades, where it gathered attention due to a special cabinet equipped with dual QWERTY keyboards. The Typing of the Dead can best be described as an educational game, following the events of House of the Dead 2 almost word for word - except rather than have guns and chainsaws to slay zombies, there are prompts and keyboards. Characters carry keyboards that magically defeat the zombies, powered by a DC on their back, with a giant AA sized battery for good measure. Due to its inclusion with Seganet, the DC came equipped with its own branded keyboard - something that is quite common today with consoles, but is often only used for surfing online and entering forgotten or complicated PSN passwords. Typing Of The Dead was one of the first games to utilize the keyboard function of a modern console system and get players involved in learning a basic function as well as having fun doing it. This list has been long and exhaustive, but I simply need to tell you that the other 9 games on the path just pale in comparison to this beautiful beast of a game. Buy it now. At any costs.
Like this list? Which Dreamcast titles would you have added?