Where in America's Past Is Carmen Sandiego?
Where in America's Past Is Carmen Sandiego? Is the 5th educational video game in the Carmen Sandiego series. It was produced by Broderbund and released in 1991.
Where in America's Past Is Carmen Sandiego?
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- 1991
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- Broderbund
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Where in America's Past Is Carmen Sandiego? Is the 5th educational video game in the Carmen Sandiego series. It was produced by Broderbund and released in 1991.
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• Title — Where in America's Past Is Carmen Sandiego? • Developer — Broderbund • Publisher — Broderbund • Series — Carmen Sandiego • Released — December 1991: MS-DOS 1992: Apple II, Mac • Genre — Educational • Modes — Single-player • Platforms — Apple II, MS-DOS, Classic Mac OS
Gameplay
Gameplay
Bundled with What Happened When (an abridged version of Encyclopedia of American Facts & Dates), the game includes 45 geographic locations, and 9 different historical eras to travel to. This far outweighs the number of travel destinations in the 1985 Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego? game. Carmen and her henchmen are involved with some of American history's most iconic moments, including the signing of the Declaration of Independence.
Development
Development
The scenery for the locations came from photographs that were digitized and pixelated.
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1991
Where in America's Past Is Carmen Sandiego? published.
1991
Where in America's Past Is Carmen Sandiego? is recorded as published in 1991.
Reception
PC Magazine said the game "offers complexities of plot and graphics that make the original Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego seem almost bland by comparison". It said the game "won't disappoint adventure hungry Carmen fans" and that "as edutainment, this game is fun and challenging". Compute! named it a "Compute Choice", calling the game's VGA graphics "stunning". The magazine concluded that "Where in the Past is Carmen Sandiego? is a must-have package for anyone interested in superior and engaging entertainment software". Computer Gaming World liked the game, but stated that it would become boring to older children and adults, and that it seemed designed to teach rudimentary facts about the chronology of American history as opposed to details. The reviewer was hopeful, however, that Where in America's Past would encourage students to study history on their own.
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- 1.Ellison, Carol. Carmen Sandiego and her new gang wreak havoc in America's past. PC Magazine. 1991-10-15.
- 2.Where in America's Past is Carmen Sandiego?.
- 3.SIIA Codie Awards.
- 4.Ken. The Computists' Weekly - Volume 2: No. 17, News -- Applications. April 1992.
- 5.Walnum, Clayton. Where in America's Past is Carmen Sandiego?. Compute!. 86–87. Oct 1991.
- 6.Wilson, David M. Chronological Kleptomania. Computer Gaming World. 89. 106, 108. December 1991.
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