Black Dahlia (video game)

Black Dahlia
Developer(s)Take-Two Interactive
Publisher(s)
Designer(s)Steve Glasstetter
Programmer(s)Greg Brown
Artist(s)
  • Jack Snyder
  • Mike Snyder
  • James H. Dargie
Writer(s)Patrick Freeman
Composer(s)Michael Bross
Platform(s)Microsoft Windows
Release
Genre(s)Interactive movie, Point-and-click adventure
Mode(s)Single-player

Black Dahlia is an interactive movie point-and-click adventure game that was released on February 25, 1998 by Take-Two Interactive. Black Dahlia is the last of the three Take-Two developed full-motion video-based adventure games, the other two being Hell: A Cyberpunk Thriller and Ripper.

The story, while fictional, is inspired by the real life Cleveland Torso Murderer and the infamous murder of Elizabeth Short in Los Angeles.

This interactive movie point-and-click adventure game ties Elizabeth Short's murder to Nazis and occult rituals which the player has to investigate. The game featured two major Hollywood actors, Dennis Hopper and Teri Garr.[2]

  1. ^ "News for February 25, 1998". Online Gaming Review. February 25, 1998. Archived from the original on December 4, 2000. Retrieved December 6, 2019.
    "February 25, 1998: "...a plethora of new titles should be hitting stores today, including...Black Dahlia..."
  2. ^ Kaiafas, Tasos (July 16, 1997). "Garr Joins Hopper in Black Dahlia". GameSpot. Archived from the original on January 28, 1999. Retrieved July 30, 2022.