Where in Time is Carmen Sandiego? (1989) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Where in Time is Carmen Sandiego?

Carmen Sandiego and her gang are loose once again, and it is the players job to capture her! This time around the player not only has to find where she is, but also when she is. Traveling to various locations…

31 December 1989

What Where in Time is Carmen Sandiego? is

Where in Time is Carmen Sandiego? is an adventure game developed by Brøderbund Software and released in 1989. It is available on Nintendo Entertainment System, Amiga, Apple II, Commodore C64/128/MAX, DOS and Mac.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Carmen Sandiego and her gang are loose once again, and it is the players job to capture her! This time around the player not only has to find where she is, but also when she is. Traveling to various locations, they need to assemble clues by questioning witnesses and searching locations to close in and capture Carmen Sandiego. Included with the game is The New America Desk Encyclopedia to help make clues more meaningful (and act as a form of copy protection!).

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

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

Where it sits in the Carmen Sandiego series

Where in Time is Carmen Sandiego? is the seventh of 36 entries we hold in the Carmen Sandiego series. It arrived 10 months after Where in North Dakota is Carmen Sandiego?. The next entry was Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego? in 1990.

See all 36 Carmen Sandiego games in release order →

What it launched against

Where in Time is Carmen Sandiego? launched on 31 December 1989, within three weeks of Fantasy World Dizzy, A Boy and His Blob: Trouble on Blobolonia, Pipe Dream and Denaris.

Released around the same time: Fantasy World Dizzy, A Boy and His Blob: Trouble on Blobolonia, Pipe Dream, Denaris.

Where in Time is Carmen Sandiego? — frequently asked questions

When did Where in Time is Carmen Sandiego? come out?

Where in Time is Carmen Sandiego? was released on 31 December 1989 for Nintendo Entertainment System, Amiga, Apple II, Commodore C64/128/MAX, DOS and Mac.

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