I wasn't taught through a game. But in my case, learning to touch-type was a relief from practicing my handwriting, which was tedious for me. And I got to liste

I wasn't taught through a game. But in my case, learning to touch-type was a relief from practicing my handwriting, which was tedious for me. And I got to listen to the computer speak what I typed, which I thought was cool, even if the primitive speech synthesizer couldn't pronounce "Matthew" (my name) correctly. Edit: So yeah, my anecdote is unique and probably worth nothing in this discussion.