Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego?

Woldwide crime wave! Acme Detective Agency hot on the trail of master thief Carmen Sandiego and her henchmen. Wanted: Detective to locate and capture Carmen and her gang. Must be hard working, independent, fun…

70 23 April 1985

Adventure Puzzle Educational Kids Mystery

Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego? is an adventure developed by Brøderbund Software, released 23 April 1985 on Apple II, Commodore C64/128/MAX, DOS and TRS-80 Color Computer.

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What Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego? is

Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego? is an adventure game developed by Brøderbund Software and released in 1985. It is available on Apple II, Commodore C64/128/MAX, DOS and TRS-80 Color Computer.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego? is an educational video game released by Broderbund on April 23, 1985. It is the first product in the Carmen Sandiego franchise. The game was distributed with The World Almanac and Book of Facts, published by Pharos Books. An enhanced version of the game was released in 1989, which did not have the almanac-based copy protection and instead used disk-based copy protection. A deluxe version was released in 1990, and features additional animation and a reworked interface from the original version. Some of the bonus features include digitized photos from National Geographic, over 3200 clues, music from the Smithsonian/Folkways Recordings, 20 villains, 60…

Description from Wikipedia · source

How it plays

It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are educational, kids and mystery. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the Carmen Sandiego series

Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego? is the first of 36 entries we hold in the Carmen Sandiego series. The next entry was Where in the U.S.A. is Carmen Sandiego? in 1986. Its critic score of 70 is 2 points below the series average of 72. The highest-rated entry is Carmen Sandiego at 76.

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How it was received

Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego? holds a critic score of 70 out of 100. That places it above 33% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 1985 averaged 70, so it scored about average for its year.

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