J.B. Harold Murder Club was one of those early CD-ROM games that combined investigative gameplay with tiny, thumbnail-sized windows of grainy, awful video. It was originally released for the Turbografx-16 CD-ROM in 1991, with the sequels appearing on the Pioneer LaserActive. And now, following the trend of dusty old adventure games getting dug up and dusted off for the DS, Murder Club is back, courtesy of a cell phone content publisher called fonfun. We're actually pretty positive about this development. Never having gotten a TG16 CD system, we missed out on the game the first time around. In addition, we generally avoided the FMV-based games because they were ugly and horrible. In so doing, we seem to have missed a good game. With the benefit of hindsight, we can see that there was some quality in that stuff, though at the time we were just worried that all games were going to look like that. Hey, maybe the video will either be better or nonexistent in the DS version!
