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Just a few words about a game I found that could make a difference with your typing. It's called TyperShark, and it's not exactly complecated. You're a diver treasure hunting, and as you dive, sharks come your way, looking for a meal. You fend them up with your blaster gun, which you use by typing the words written on the shark. There it is. Simple, right? Well, maybe, but (depending on your wpm), it gets pretty intense. You only type one word for blue sharks, but you type two for black sharks, and three for red. There are pink sharks, with words or letters spelled upside-down and/or backwords, green sharks, whose letters change randomly, and ghost sharks of all others, whose words are hidden until they get about half-way across the screen, which make red sharks real bastards. There are also 1-letter mini-sharks (or shark pups, I guess), and these are a snap, unless they contain numbers and symbols, which I'm not too good with. At the end of the dive (100 feet) you have a chance to grab some bonus points by typing words (often long, difficult ones, like pontification) before your air gauge runs out.
So there it is. My first try, I got 1.4 million points before the sharks gobbled up the last of my lives, and I couldn't believe it. I'd just gotten eaten by a school of symbol mini-sharks, and I couldn't use my blast gun (a weapon that steadily charges itself and could only be used once every once in a while to clear up the screen of sharks, regardless of color or number), so I suffered in agony while they ripped off various body parts. Okay, not really (the graphics are really quite simple), but still, it was fun. So here I am, recommending it to fellow Hatrackers.
Enjoy.
Cristian V. Gurau
PS--I turned 20 recently, so I decided to switch from Chris (Which, looking back, has an "H" but shouldn't, seeing as the original does not. Oh well), to the signature seen above. Sophisticated, ain't it?
PPS--I just realized, I've been rambling for 15 minutes (give or take), and I haven't included the address. My bad. So here it is (after a cut 'n' paste job): http://games.yahoo.com/games/downloads/tps.html
PPPS--(A first for me, I believe. ) I use parentheses a lot, don't I? Hm. Odd. I also edit a lot, perpetually unsatisfied, but that's true of almost anything I write.
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Really funny that you meantion this.. I stumbled across it a day ago. It was incredibly frustrating though. I got to level 21 without any complications. I had, I think, eight extra lives. And then 22 came around and it was impossible. I just couldn't pass it. I don't know, that's kind of a deterence for me.
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Funny, Rahl, I got to 21 with five lives and lost it all there, too. It seemed like the game ratcheted up a BIG amount there and I wondered if anyone could really get past that point.
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) I use parentheses a lot, don't I? Hm. Odd. I also edit a lot, perpetually unsatisfied, but that's true of almost anything I write.
