Sherlock Holmes: Consulting Detective
A FMV update to the classic book-based game, SH:CD challenges players to help Holmes and Watson solve three cases involving murder. One of the first CD-ROM-only releases.
Sherlock Holmes: Consulting Detective is an adventure developed by ICOM Simulations, released 31 December 1991 on Sega CD, DOS, Mac and Turbografx-16/PC Engine CD.
What Sherlock Holmes: Consulting Detective is
Sherlock Holmes: Consulting Detective is an adventure game developed by ICOM Simulations and released in 1991. It is available on Sega CD, DOS, Mac and Turbografx-16/PC Engine CD.
The premise, in the publisher's words
A FMV update to the classic book-based game, SH:CD challenges players to help Holmes and Watson solve three cases involving murder. One of the first CD-ROM-only releases.
How it plays
It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the Sherlock Holmes series
Sherlock Holmes: Consulting Detective is the seventh of 55 entries we hold in the Sherlock Holmes series. It arrived 3 years after Sherlock: The Riddle of the Crown Jewels. The next entry was The Lost Files of Sherlock Holmes: The Case of the Serrated Scalpel in 1992.
What it launched against
Sherlock Holmes: Consulting Detective launched on 31 December 1991, within three weeks of Micro Machines, Alien Breed, Commander Keen in Keen Dreams and Baseball Stars 2.
Released around the same time: Micro Machines, Alien Breed, Commander Keen in Keen Dreams, Baseball Stars 2.
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