Reviews by MathBrush

The Textfire Demo 12-pack was released on April Fool's in 1998, claiming to be demos of an upcoming commercial studio called Textfire.

In this game, there are 100 clones of Marjorie Hopkirk, and you have to kill them one at a time, each in a different way. The 'demo' stops after 5 turns.

This is the most violent of the textfire games, but is well put together.

The Textfire Demo 12-pack was released on April Fool's in 1998, claiming to be demos of an upcoming commercial studio called Textfire.

In this demo, you plant the magic beans, but the game ends right around there. There was a surprise twist that I thought was pretty good.

A weaker textfire game, but with some fun surprises.

The Textfire Demo 12-pack was released on April Fool's in 1998, claiming to be demos of an upcoming commercial studio called Textfire.

This is one of the weaker textfire games. There is a machine that turns you into an inanimate object (including one inappropriate one, an option that I never ran into).

In this 'demo', you only get to be grain. You can't do anything. This was done much better by the game Constraints.

The Textfire Demo 12-pack was released on April Fool's in 1998, claiming to be demos of an upcoming commercial studio called Textfire.

This is a joke game, like the others. In this game, you recreate the actual events of the 1998 Winter Olympics where the US men's hockey team trashed their hotel room.

It made me laugh. Very short.

The Textfire Demo 12-pack was released on April Fool's in 1998, claiming to be demos of an upcoming commercial studio called Textfire.

This is one of the shorter games. You are in a coma, and then it ends. It hints at being able to do more after (or maybe before?) the part shown in the demo.

The Textfire Demo 12-pack was released on April Fool's in 1998, claiming to be demos of an upcoming commercial studio called Textfire.

This game (one of the many from which Adam Cadre scrubbed his name) is based on Flowers for Algernon. It has extensive styling of the standard parser errors, written in the voice of someone with bad spelling and grammar.

A lot of work went into this joke game, and it's an interesting concept.

The Textfire Demo 12-pack was released on April Fool's in 1998, claiming to be demos of an upcoming commercial studio called Textfire.

This game showed extensive use of color, and came just a few months before Photopia.

You travel from colorful area to colorful area. Each area has a way to change the color, but it can be hard to figure out each color change.

A really pretty game.

The Textfire Demo 12-pack was released on April Fool's in 1998, claiming to be demos of an upcoming commercial studio called Textfire.

This is one of the cruelest jokes in the pack, a demo that promises a massive game with intense conversations, a controllable maze, and an army simulation with graphics.

This is great for its intended purpose.

The Textfire Demo 12-pack was released on April Fool's in 1998, claiming to be demos of an upcoming commercial studio called Textfire.

This game wasn't particularly inspiring. It's just a few turns in an interesting setting, but it cuts off before any action can occur. Due to its truly incomplete nature, it's not as good as the other textfire games.

I enjoyed this short superhero game. You play as someone who is interested in becoming a superhero.

You have special glasses that let you see the world differently. There's some random combat, and some clever puzzles, and then the game just ends.

It'll probably never be finished now, but it's still interesting to play. Check it out!