Controversy
Sherman has threatened to sue the web publication SPAG for considering to publish an unfavorable review of one of his games. The Malinche website has displayed carefully edited review quotes for games, in order to alter the reviewers' intended meaning ("...mystery story lovers should find the quest for the murderer addictive enough to overcome its weaknesses. Nevertheless, I wouldn’t recommend it for the more wide-ranging hard-core interactive fiction player." was reduced to simply "...Mystery story lovers should find the quest for the murderer addictive..."), and quotations from reviews written decades ago for games by Infocom were presented so as to imply that they described Malinche games.
He also calls himself "the only active Implementor of Interactive Fiction in the world", despite the existence of a thriving hobbyist community and his own acknowledgement of hobbyist-produced games. In fact, Sherman himself was taking part in that community in the very same year that Malinche Entertainment was founded, when he entered a game called "BOFH" (based on Simon Travaglia's Bastard Operator From Hell property) into the 8th annual Interactive Fiction Competition.
Sherman also refers to Malinche as "The World's Only Publisher of Interactive Fiction", despite the existence of at least one other commercial publisher of interactive fiction.
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