Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?
Man, I don't know what kids do these days without this game. This was truly educational gaming at it's finest. A game that was really a game; both fun and engaging, yet truly educational. Now, I suppose there are updated versions, but I'm not sure this game would really work well now that we have the internet. Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego? forced you to do research in order to complete the puzzles. Where nowadays you could just Google search the question and get your answer; this game required you look up the answer in a World Almanac. So you learned the valuable skill of researching things in a book, as well as the facts you looked up and ended up memorizing. Carmen Sandiego was timed just right for my generation. Released in 1985, it was one of the few games we owned when my dad got us a 286 PC for the house back when I was in grade 5. Being that there wasn't much else to play, we found the fun in this game, even though we really didn't have to. It was engaging and rewarding to play and all the little nuances, like having stuff print up on a dot matrix printer, all the little maps and the midi-audio tracks of all the countries' anthems; really gave it it's charm.
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