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Have You Played… The Lost Files Of Sherlock Holmes: The Case Of The Serrated Scalpel?Care for a game of darts, Watson?

Care for a game of darts, Watson?

The Lost Files Of Sherlock Holmes: The Case Of The Serrated Scalpel is an adventure game developed by Mythos Software and published by EA in 1992.

The Lost Files of Sherlock Holmes: The Case of the Serrated Scalpel - Cutscene [HD]The Case Of The Serrated Scalpel stood out next to LucasArts and Sierra adventures.Watch on YouTube

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Ah, the pub. Home of Serrated Scalpel’s darts minigame. This played out a little like classic golf sims, making you press Space to set the vertical and horizontal coordinates of your target along moving bars, if I recall correctly. It took months, but my entire family ended up being roped into perfecting our form enough so that we could rinse all the patrons. I’d be surprised if the darts in Serrated Scalpel didn’t influence Frogwares when they were creating the arm-wrestling minigame forSherlock Holmes: Crimes And Punishmentsyears later.

You can’t get hold of Serrated Scalpel officially these days, which is a huge shame. The same developers released an FMV sequel a few years later, called The Case Of The Rose Tattoo. I never played that, but Gem did. She says it’s very good too.