Name: | Carmen Sandiego series (2 titles) Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego? Where in Time is Carmen Sandiego? |
Author/Vendor: | Broderbund/Electronic Arts |
Released: | various |
Type: | Edutainment |
Language: | Multilanguage |
Premise: | You are one of the top sleuths of the ACME Detective Agency who has been called in on an alarming case. The notorious art thief Carmen Sandiego is on the loose again, and its your job to stop her. |
Impressions: | A well-written and immensely popular series of games that first made their appearance on the venerable Commodore 64 and have been kicking around in one form or another ever since. Only the first and third in the the series were ported to the Genesis; it is unclear why the second (Where in the USA...) was not. |
Variations: | Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego? (1992, Carmen and
her gang are stealing the world's great art treasures - originally packaged with the 1992
New World Almanac) Where in Time is Carmen Sandiego? (1992, Carmen and her gang have stolen a time machine and are stealing the great historical treasures from around the world - originally packaged with the 1992 New American Desk Encyclopedia) |
Recommended Emu: | Genecyst X |