Where in Time is Carmen Sandiego?

by Broderbund

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• ASIN: B000B6B0PM
• Media: Video Game
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #18,657 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)

Product Description

Your mission: capture Carmen Sandiego and her crooked cronies. It's up to you to preserve the world's historic inheritance. Begin your search in the tombs of Egypt and finish over 3,000 years later!

Customer Reviews

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21 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Where In Time is Carmen = an AWESOME game, August 12, 2004

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ilove25or6to4 - See all my reviews

There's no comparison. This is by FAR the best Carmen Sandiego game there is. It is much, much different from the others (not that the others were bad; I liked them very much) in that you need to know very little about history in order to complete the game. In the others, you need to know your USA or world facts in order to catch the criminals. But in Where In Time, you use abstract thinking, just like a game in the adventure genre, but way easier. While you are figuring out each puzzle for each mission, you can't help but learn some valuable history lessons.
It is also so cool that you get to "meet" historical characters such as Ceasar, Beethoven, Yuri Gagarin, Mansa Musa, Hatshepsut, Edison, Jefferson, Franklin, Leif Erikson, and many, many more. Do YOU know who Murasaki Shikibu is?
(PS- She wrote the world's first novel, The Tale Of Genji)

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great game!, August 25, 2009

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megmusic "music mom" (Stratford, CT United States) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

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This is a great game! It's a fun way to learn history and the jokes are great whether you're a parent or a kid. We owned this game a long time ago and had lost it, and bought this copy because we'd liked it. It's even better and funnier than we'd remembered it!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Game, July 6, 2010

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SB (USA) - See all my reviews

= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

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This review is from: Where in Time is Carmen Sandiego? (Video Game)

This is a great, educational game that I played as a child and recently repurchased. It's starting to show its age in the graphics department, but that does not by any means diminish its fun and playability. It's also a really nostalgic game to play if you remember the television series of the same name. A lot of the characters from that series, including the chief, are in the game.

There are about eighteen levels set in different time periods and places, including ancient Egypt, Kublai Khan's China, the signing of the Declaration of Independence, and Russia in the space race years. In each level, you meet and interact with famous historical figures who have been kept from doing something pivotal in history by one of Carmen Sandiego's VILE agents. You play an ACME agent sent back in time to capture these criminals and must piece together clues Carmen left behind to find out where they are hiding (the clues always have some historical significance).

It is surprising how much this game taught me about history when I was a kid, and how much it stayed with me. I am a lot more knowledgeable about history now than I would have been had I never played this game. It teaches you a lot of great things about history while still being enjoyable.