Sherlock Holmes & the Case of the Elementary Rescue (1983)

People are going to buy these things and then after six weeks or so they’re going to put them up on a shelf in their closet and ignore them … we saw that there was a need for something that helped people to both socialize with other people and get practical life use out of these really significant investments. — Stacy Goff, president and co-founder of Atari Computer Enthusiasts Before getting to our author today, I need to revisit one of the prior games from this blog, Max’s Adventure. Max’s Adventure (or just Adventure) was given by the author Max Manowski to a shop in Seattle, and from there it distributed far enough across the US Northwest to catch the attention of the Atari Computer Enthusiasts club in Oregon. The club helped distribute the game farther before it eventually got the attention of Atari and was packaged as Wizard’s Revenge as part of their APX program; it became the first text adventure that Atari published. The same issue that talks about Max’s Adventure (April…