Where In Time Is Carmen Sandiego?

My parents didn’t believe in television for kids, but they definitely believed in computers. They got us one of the first personal desktop computers ever made, the Macintosh LE. It was black and white and had a tiny screen. When you started it up the first time, there was an interactive video that taught you how to use your mouse to click on folders and open them, because nobody had ever seen a mouse or
folder before.

The computer came with a game- Where In Time Is Carmen Sandiego. The game box included the disc, but also included a thick paperback encyclopedia and a notepad. This was the first indication that the game was going to be ridiculously hard.

The objective of this game, like all the subsequent Carmen Sandiego titles, was to find Carmen Sandiego by tracking down her henchman. The names of the henchmen were all puns- Nosmo King. You would be given a clue and then you would have to cross reference that clue in the encyclopedia. Often, the clues required leaps of logic - if you knew she intended to steal the Crown of Sheba, you had to first figure out who Sheba was and when she reigned then weigh

If you picked the wrong place, you couldn’t undo your choice- you had to figure out how to get to where you should have gone from your current destination.

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