Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?

~ WHERE IN THE WORLD IS CARMEN SANDIEGO? ~

Pack-in Video / Broderbund Software

CD-ROM

1990

While I like to praise the oft-disparaged geniuses who developed games for Pack-in Video every chance I get, I guess they don't deserve a whole lot of credit for Carmen Sandiego being a good game. Then again, this is a great port, one that'll appeal most to us old folks who chased after Carmen and her crowd of crooks back in our junior high days. New sleuths with no nostalgia for the game should still get a couple hours fun out of it, and it probably won't cost more than a fiver to acquire. It's too bad that Where in Time wasn't brought over to the PCE as well.

Yep, you can play the game entirely in English.

There's nothing fancy about the game's presentation, but the cities look pretty nice, and the decent imagery is accompanied by appropriate location-exclusive tunes.

It usually isn't very hard to figure out where to go next, but even though this is an easy game, it isn't a dull one...

...thanks in part to the funny animated bits that play out when you're on the right trail. I wish there were more of them.

Lock up Carmen's cronies one by one, and then go after the ringleader herself.