Potpourri

July, 1991

The CD DunnitThere's nothing elementary about Sherlock Holmes, Consulting Detective, the first in a series of software titles designed for NEC's Turbo-Grafx CD player. The game features three murder mysteries in which the player becomes Holmes, interacting with 50 characters while attempting to deduce which clues are valuable and which are red herrings. Real actors were cast for the games and their images were then digitized along with other graphics onto the compact disc. The price: about $60....