Mystery Science Theater 3000 Presents "Detective"

Mystery Science Theater 3000 Presents "Detective"
by C. E. Forman, Matt Barringer, Graeme Cree, and Stuart Moore

Mystery, Satire
1995

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14 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

One of the ones I always come back to, January 6, 2008

by Matt Poush (Des Moines, Iowa)

Every time I rediscover IF, the MST3K version of 'Detective' is one of the first things I seek out to re-play. Most works of IF would be relatively difficult to wrap in MST3K form, but Matt Barringer's Detective is so linear that it's incredibly effective. Strangers to the show may feel a little lost if they dive directly into the story, but the authors have thoughtfully created a quick primer to bring them up to speed. The character's comments/tones ring eerily true to the show and no gaffe is overlooked, from actions that happen in room descriptions, objects with bizarre adjectives, and doors that just plain weren't hooked up correctly.

Anyone who has ever been so excited to create an IF work that they dove head-first and made the game up as they went along will cringe deliciously - not only at how terrible the original game is, but how representative it is of those initial creations. Certainly, part of the amusement is at Barringer's expense (although he readily cops to how poorly written it was, and seems to take it with a grain of salt), but at least for this reviewer, an equal part of the amusement is the realization that it's no worse than what I've done; there but for the grace of God go I.

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7 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

I know I'm supposed to like this, but I don't, December 16, 2007

by Kake (London, England)
Related reviews: **, C. E. Forman, Graeme Cree, Stuart Moore

This is a parody of Matt Barringer's Detective, a game famous for being really, really bad.

It might be because I'm not American, and have never watched Mystery Science Theatre 3000, but I just found this kind of boring. I didn't think anything the commentators said was particularly witty or amusing, and I had to force myself to persist to the end — a problem I didn't have with the original game they're making fun of!