Sherlock Holmes: Consulting Detective
| Sherlock Holmes: Consulting Detective | |
|---|---|
| Developer | ICOM Simulations |
| Publishers | ICOM Simulations Sega (Sega CD) |
| Director | Kenneth Tarolla |
| Producer | Kenneth Tarolla |
| Programmers | Fred Allen Michael Manning |
| Artists | Katherine Tootelian Michael Manning |
| Writers | Laurie Rose Bauman Annie Fox |
| Platforms | FM Towns, CDTV, MS-DOS, TurboGrafx-CD, Classic Mac OS, Sega CD, DVD Remaster iPad, Windows, OS X |
| Release | |
| Genres | Adventure, interactive movie |
| Mode | Single-player |
Sherlock Holmes: Consulting Detective is an interactive movie video game released in 1991. It is based on a tabletop game-gamebook hybrid of the same name first published in 1981, and features the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes, created by Arthur Conan Doyle.
The video game was developed by ICOM Simulations for the FM Towns computer and later ported to MS-DOS, Classic Mac OS, CDTV, TurboGrafx-CD, Sega CD, and Tandy Video Information System with all versions distributed on CD-ROM. The game was re-released as a DVD for use with a standard DVD player and television in 1999.
The game uses live actors in full motion video scenes as the player controls Sherlock Holmes and his longtime partner Dr. Watson, trying to solve three separate crimes by visiting various locations, listening to the dialogue, reading the included mock London newspapers, and, when the player gets enough evidence, answering the judge's questions.
A remastered version for iPad, Windows, and OS X was released in September 2012.