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Carmen Sandiego is a series of American educational mystery video games that spawned an edutainment franchise of the same name.The game released in 1985, Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego?, started off both the video game series and the franchise as a whole, which has continued up to the present day.
In 2003, Computers and Education wrote that Carmen Sandiego was "by far the best-selling educational software in North America". [16] Roy Wagner reviewed the game for Computer Gaming World, and stated that "The graphics are nice and the manual is well written with a dossier on each thief. The game is good for schools or played as family activity.
The 1994 journal article "The impact of a computer-based adventure game on achievement and attitudes in geography" by J. H. Wiebe and N. J. Martin found that there were no "significant differences in recall of geography facts or attitudes between the teaching methods" of the computer game Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego? and a "non ...
Carmen Sandiego, a media franchise also known as Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego? (game show) , a 1991-1995 children's television game show (album) , a 1992 soundtrack album for the show
The animation in the game closely imitated the look of traditional animated cartoons.The animations that alert the user that the correct destination has been reached featured either Carmine from Carmen Sandiego: Junior Detective Edition or a pair of bumbling janitors named Rick and Nick ICK according to the game manual.
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The New York Times noted: "Because electronic books and games can be "published" more quickly than conventional books, Prodigy's "Carmen" is very topical". [5] PC Mag noted it wasn't as graphically pleasing as the genuine article [17] and wondered aloud if parents would want their kids using up the phone line for hours at a time to play the game. [18]
Allgame said the game "represents a huge leap forward in the Carmen Sandiego series" as it is the first one "presented in more of a graphical format", as opposed to the older games which were largely text-based. It gave the game a rating of 4 stars out of 5. [2]