J.B. Harold - Blue Chicago Blues

J.B. Harold: Blue Chicago Blues is an interactive movie adventure and the fourth installment in the detective series. This time, the case is personal: J.B. Harold's fiancée, Detective Catherine White, has been killed in Chicago while investigating the murder of a woman in a red dress. The crime scene was made to look like a suicide, but J.B. knows it was murder. Arriving in Chicago, he partners with veteran detective Ted Rossen to unravel the mystery, uncovering connections between the two victims and an unsolved homicide from twenty years prior. Gameplay focuses on gathering clues and interrogating suspects. A real-time clock system adds urgency—certain actions take up time, and key events are only available at specific moments.

Sega Saturn

Released exclusively in Japan on September 22, 1995 by Riverhill Soft Inc., this version was published for the Sega Saturn . The Saturn port features the same full-motion video sequences filmed on location in Chicago with American actors . Japanese gaming magazines gave the title average scores of approximately 63-69% at release . The game received an unofficial English fan translation patch in 2023, making the previously Japan-exclusive narrative accessible to a wider audience . It preserves the menu-driven detective gameplay, time management mechanics, and multiple endings of other versions, remaining a unique FMV adventure title in the Saturn's library .