Famicom Detective Club
| Famicom Detective Club | |
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| Developer | Nintendo R&D1 |
| Publisher | Nintendo |
| Director | Satoru Okada |
| Producer | Gunpei Yokoi |
| Designer | Yoshio Sakamoto |
| Artist | Tetsuji Tanaka |
| Writers | Yoshio Sakamoto Toru Osawa Nagihiro Asama |
| Composer | Kenji Yamamoto Takeshi Abo (Remake) |
| Platforms | |
| Release | 1988–1989
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| Genre | Adventure |
| Mode | Single-player |
Famicom Detective Club is an adventure game duology developed and published by Nintendo for the Family Computer Disk System. The first entry, The Missing Heir, was released in 1988, followed by a prequel released the next year titled The Girl Who Stands Behind. In both games, the player takes on the role of a young man solving murder mysteries in the Japanese countryside.
The duology was the first writing project for Yoshio Sakamoto, before he found greater success and recognition with Metroid. The games were inspired by Enix's 1983 adventure game The Portopia Serial Murder Case, horror films by Italian director Dario Argento, and detective novels by Japanese writer Seishi Yokomizo. Both games were only released in Japan and received positive reception from critics.
Nintendo remade The Girl Who Stands Behind for the Super Famicom in 1998, and updated remakes of both games were released for the Nintendo Switch in 2021, developed by Mages. The Switch remakes were localized and released outside Japan, a first for the games. Related media includes an episodic Satellaview broadcast from 1997 titled BS Tantei Club: Yuki ni Kieta Kako, and a new adventure titled Emio – The Smiling Man, released in 2024.