Mr. Mix.

Does anyone remember an old PC game from the early 1990s called Mr. Mix?

It was mainly a typing game, similar to Mario teaches typing, where you have to put words

into a box to make a chef.

The titular Mr. Mix, place ingredients into a bowl.

Unlike most typing games, however, the game was notorious for having an insane difficulty

curve.

It had a words-per per minute requirement for each level, being as low as 10 on level 1 and as high as 85 on the 3rd. By level 5,

the requirement reaches over 500, effectively making it impossible to proceed any further.

One of the main things that people immediately noticed about the game was the background

music. On the first level, it was an unsettling pattern of growls that got progressively

louder as the level went on, often causing damaged early computer speakers that were not

designed to handle extremely high volumes.

The second level had no music at all, and the third had what sounded like a very low quality recording of a hair dryer playing in the background.

The remaining two levels had an incredibly loud, high-pitched ringing throughout that caused severe

ear drum damage to those who managed to get that far. Another rather disturbing aspect of the game

was the design of Mr. Mix himself. He was a large, round-faced, overweight man with beady eyes and

red spots on his cheeks. Most children who

played the game reported having vivid nightmares of Mr. Mick speaking to them in a quiet,

raspy voice, and threatening them to keep quiet about something. However, none of them could

remember exactly what it was.

One psychologist who saw many of these children reported being disturbed by the sheer amount of terror on their faces as they recounted details of the nightmare.

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