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The Lost Files of Sherlock Holmes: The Case of the Serrated Scalpel

The Lost Files of Sherlock Holmes is an adventure game series developed by Mythos Software and published by the American computer game company Electronic Arts for DOS in the 1990s. The series contains The Case…

31 December 1992

The Lost Files of Sherlock Holmes: The Case of the Serrated Scalpel is an adventure developed by Mythos Software, released 31 December 1992 on 3DO Interactive Multiplayer and DOS.

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What The Lost Files of Sherlock Holmes: The Case of the Serrated Scalpel is

The Lost Files of Sherlock Holmes: The Case of the Serrated Scalpel is an adventure game developed by Mythos Software and released in 1992. It was published by Electronic Arts. It is available on 3DO Interactive Multiplayer and DOS.

The premise, in the publisher's words

A young actress has been brutally murdered in the alley behind the Regency Theatre.Jack the Ripper appears to have struck again. Inspector Lestrade turns to London's most famous detective to provide the proof.He turns to you.Sherlock Holmes.
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How it plays

It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are mystery. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the Sherlock Holmes series

The Lost Files of Sherlock Holmes: The Case of the Serrated Scalpel is the eighth of 55 entries we hold in the Sherlock Holmes series. It arrived a year after Sherlock Holmes: Consulting Detective. The next entry was Sherlock Holmes: Consulting Detective Vol. II in 1992.

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What it launched against

The Lost Files of Sherlock Holmes: The Case of the Serrated Scalpel launched on 31 December 1992, within three weeks of Street Fighter II' Turbo: Hyper Fighting and Moto Roader MC.

Released around the same time: Street Fighter II' Turbo: Hyper Fighting, Moto Roader MC.

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When did The Lost Files of Sherlock Holmes: The Case of the Serrated Scalpel come out?
The Lost Files of Sherlock Holmes: The Case of the Serrated Scalpel was released on 31 December 1992 for 3DO Interactive Multiplayer and DOS.

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