Talk:TerraFire
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Influences
[edit]Clearly derived from the old BBC game Thrust (which itself comes from Lunar Lander). 2fort5r (talk) 01:37, 20 January 2011 (UTC)
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- Unsourced page. I've done a source search on the Internet Archive and I'm confident that there just simply isn't enough surviving sourcing, including no known review sourcing, to justify the article.
I think it'd be a real shame to lose this gem.
A quick DuckDuckGo search produced many results mentioning the game, for example:
- https://retro-replay.com/db/dos/terrafire/
- https://www.myabandonware.com/game/terrafire-2bm/play-2bm
- https://www.mobygames.com/game/6752/terrafire/
- https://archive.org/details/TerraFire
- and even the official website still exists - https://www.ortsoftware.com/tf.html
but, of course, I'm aware a "mention" does not necessarily count as a "source".
Sadly I have never understood Wikipedia's sourcing policy - it all goes over my head, I'm afraid - so I can't be the one to solve whatever the problem is. But my intuition is that the page deserves to stay.
I don't know where I personally came across the game as a kid, but it must have appeared in some media - maybe an old PC Magazine or similar. For a DOS game of the time, it was spectacular, so I'd have thought it'd have made its way into something.
Maybe some regular Wikipedia editors experienced in the video game history area could chip in?
~ Keiji (iNVERTED) (Talk) 18:18, 26 March 2026 (UTC)
I've also just noticed on the official site the following quote (my bold):
- TerraFire is an award-winning arcade game featuring 3D-rendered graphics, realistic gravitational physics and 360 degree parallax scrolling.
If it's award-winning, that implies it won some awards, so presumably there should be some media coverage of this out there?
Separately - if this page is to be deleted, what about AstroFire? These are the only pages in Category:ORT Software games - perhaps if there's no justification to keep all three individual pages ("three" counting the category), they could be replaced with a single (main namespace) page at ORT Software, with sections for the games?
~ Keiji (iNVERTED) (Talk) 19:41, 26 March 2026 (UTC)
- Thanks for your thoughts and comments. I've directed the deletion discussion to your thoughts here for more eyes on it; you're welcome to participate there too. I think you've pre-empted the response on the suggested sourcing, which are primary sources and user-generated databases. I've tired to do due diligence: on the IA Terrafire doesn't really have any mentions in print I can find other than brief mention it's on a magazine cover disc - as shareware I suppose it didn't have the cache for publications to write and review about it at the level that commercial software garners. On awards, depends on the scope of the award, the coverage it garnered, that sort of thing; it looks like Ziff Davis gave it an award for shareware in 2001, which I can't find on ZDNet, and seems to be a publication-level thing with the honor being that it's packaged on the cover disks of things like Computer Gaming World. ＶＲＸＣＥＳ (talk) 20:18, 26 March 2026 (UTC)