Sherwood Forest Software

Sherwood Forest Software was a team of video game developers based out of Pennsylvania, United States that consisted of Rob Sherwood and Dan Whalen. Their ideas tend to be based off either the usual ideas of books from back then, real life events like World War 2, or other things such as legends from centuries ago. They tended to use software development kits that were made for sale to individuals to be used at their homes, such as mh:awesomegames:RSD Game-Maker and Game Builder by MVP Software. Not much is known about them, but Rob Sherwood has a Facebook profile, and later re-published his own game there.

List of video games
Adventures In Melgratta (1992) The Adventures of Melvin Freebush (1993) Air-Strike 42 (1992) Amaze-Ing (1993) Attack of the Killer Dandelions (Unknown) Big Bob's Drive-In (1992) Dino Hunt (1993) High Seas Homicide (1993) The Old Rimshaw Place (Unknown) Operation: Tiger (1992) Pedestrian Panic (Unknown) Preggers (1993) Rascal In Numberland (1994) Rascal's Alphamaze (1994) Robo Wars (1994) Rocket Fighter (1993) Safari Sam: Jungle Explorer (1992) Shootout At Dodge (1992) Shoplifter (pre-1994) Shoplifter II: The Second Caper (1994) Unknown bonus game (Unknown) Way Out Willy's Circus (Unknown)

Overall

 * 1) All of their games have absolutely hideous graphics that can make early NES titles look like Playstation 3 games in comparison.
 * 2) * In addition, the color choices are very limited, and drab. This makes some things look like either rotten chocolate, or vomit.
 * 3) They charge about $15 for the full versions of their games as well as bonus games, yet even for free people felt like they were getting ripped off in the worst way imaginable.
 * 4) Rob Sherwood himself is a horrible developer.
 * 5) * Firstly, he is a hypocrite as despite making video games where you shoot down dinosaurs, planes, as well as other things (see below), he was displeasured about the video game industry trending towards violent video games.
 * 6) * Secondly, he is downright racist, and unlike Blast! Entertainment, it's been confirmed. Safari Sam: Jungle Explorer has various racist stereotypes of Native Americans in some of its minigames. This gives bad vibes to people remembering Custer's Revenge.
 * 7) * His games have other offensive stuff that'll not fly on any other things, and they are done in very stupid ways that make them look pathetic.
 * 8) ** Air-Strike 42 is a poor WW2-era game that can give Japanese, German, and African groups some uncomfortable vibes.
 * 9) ** The Rascal duology is nothing more than a big middle finger of an insult towards the intelligence of preschoolers.
 * 10) ** The Shoplifter duology makes it seem that shoplifting is considered a good thing, when in reality, it is a serious theft crime that will get you in prison.
 * 11) ** Big Bob's Drive-In has a storyline, and it mentions the main female protagonist being taken by males to a spin that she most likely won't have a good time with. This is an actual attempt at a rape joke!
 * 12) ** The Adventures of Melvin Freebush is another poor attempt at an adult game from them, except instead of being a top-down diner, it's a point-and-click game.
 * 13) ** It somehow gets worse: Preggers is a game where you're a naked man raping, & impregnating random women in random places in an open park where anyone could see you. This is an even worse attempt at a rape joke than the previous one above.
 * 14) They're most likely single-handedly one of the biggest reasons why RSD Game-Maker has had a bad reputation throughout the years as the games made on that engine are an expurgation of it, similarly to that of Big Green Dragon Ball dub, 90's dub of Sailor Moon, and mh:terribletvshows:Spaceballs: The Animated Series.

Games

 * 1) Even when going past all of the terrible things that Rob Sherwood did, the gameplay in the company's games are awful. These games tend to give you no clue on where to go and which spots are dangerous.
 * 2) * In the top-down action games, you can very easily get killed in a matter of seconds.
 * 3) ** Pedestrian Panic has the worst case of this as you get no weapon at all, and the cars move way too fast for you to react, so everything in this game can only be done by dumb luck.
 * 4) * The point-and-click games are very boring, & unimaginative in terms of gameplay. You just quick around until you hopefully find something that progresses the game onward.
 * 5) * Amaze-Ing just consists of very boring mazes with nothing even remotely entertaining. Not even any music(though to be fair, most of these games don't have music anyway with the exceptions of Big Bob's Drive-In, the Rascal duology, & Shoplifter II: The Second Caper).
 * 6) Most of their games have either uninspired controls, or awful controls:
 * 7) * In games like Operation: Tiger, Shoplifter II: The Second Caper, Rocket Fighter, & especially Pedestrian Panic your protagonist moves way too slowly while the enemies move at very high speeds, making it nearly impossible to avoid them.
 * 8) * In order to go up ladders in the Hut minigame of Safari Sam: Jungle Explorer, you have to press 5 on the numberpad.
 * 9) * Robo Wars has poor use of the Robotron style shooting control technique, where you have to hold one of the buttons to keep shooting in that direction, which can get irritating when dealing with multiple enemies. This is especially since it takes 1 to 2 seconds for anything to happen when pressing one of the buttons.
 * 10) Horrid level design as mentioned in WTATGS:G #1. Most of the time, they're practically giant mazes with absolutely no way to know where you're going unless you're willing to go through all the torment for more than what is considered possible for any sane person.
 * 11) The AI is way too sadistic for its own good. They can go way too fast, spaz around in many directions, or follow you around. Either way, they will make the games far harder than they needed to be.