Sherlock Holmes: Consulting Detective | |
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Developer(s) | ICOM Simulations |
Publisher(s) | ICOM Simulations Sega (Sega CD) |
Director(s) | Kenneth Tarolla |
Producer(s) | Kenneth Tarolla |
Programmer(s) | Fred Allen Michael Manning |
Artist(s) | Katherine Tootelian Michael Manning |
Writer(s) | Laurie Rose Bauman Annie Fox |
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Genre(s) | Adventure, interactive movie |
Mode(s) | Single-player |
Sherlock Holmes: Consulting Detective is a full-motion 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 originally developed by ICOM Simulations for the FM Towns computer and later ported to DOS, Macintosh, Commodore CDTV, TurboGrafx-CD, Sega CD and Tandy Video Information System with all versions being distributed on CD-ROM. The game was re-released as a DVD for use with a standard DVD player and television in 1999. A high resolution and re-mastered version of the game for iPad, Microsoft Windows, and OS X was released on September 18, 2012.[1]