Superior zombie entertainment, albeit brief, was had from the Typing of the Dead; a bizarre combination of House of the Dead and Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing. Shoot the zombies by typing words that appear over them. It has classic Sega-arcade horrible acting and stupid plot. Very close to a direct copy of House of the Dead's story, but with the characters occasionally saying "this is just like that other case two years ago," "that case? Why so it is!"
Most entertaining is the intro section, which has the two-year flashback to House of the Dead story, with zombies being shot, and then cuts forward to the present, with the main characters, completely unexplained, having keyboards hung around their necks rather than guns. It's not mentioned anywhere in the storyline, nor are any of the characters ever shown typing at their keyboard. The lack of explanation combined with the overt display is, I think, a masterpiece of plothole workaround. Hours of oozing zombie fun, anyway.
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