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Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego?
Studio : The Learning Company
by The Learning Company
Brand : The Learning Company
Model : 380862
Platform : Macintosh, Windows, Windows 3.x
Release Date : 2001-10-25
Publisher : The Learning Company
Availability : Usually ships in 1-2 business days
EAN : 0772040811822
UPC : 772040811822
Avg. Customer Rating: (based on 40 reviews)
List Price : $19.99
Our Price : $0.59
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Product Description |
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Match wits with the elusive Carmen Sandiego as you recover the stolen treasures of knowledge! This time she's run off with a rare and valuable edition of the "Travels of Marco Polo." Worth millions! Includes challenging world missions, multiple puzzles and mind teasers, and much more! |
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Americancivilwar.com Review |
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Carmen Sandiego is a thorn in the ACME Detective Agency's side. A brilliant globe-trotting thief, she learned all of her best tricks in her days as ACME's greatest operative. Now, she has used those skills to steal a rare book about Marco Polo. It is up to her former partner, an untested rookie, and--most importantly--you, the player, to stop her. Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego? has been around for over a decade in various incarnations, and one look at its successful mix of educational content and mystery role-playing is enough to explain why it has endured. Focusing on geography and world cultures, the game pursues Carmen through Earth's major cities, introducing players to the languages, customs, and landmarks of their peoples along the way. Like most mystery games, this one has a sedate pace, requiring players to look hard at each new cityscape and search out clues that will help the story unfold. This does not mean it is impossibly difficult--there is plenty of help on offer for whenever a detective is stuck. The clues themselves are generally based on true facts about the nations Carmen is visiting on her crime spree, reinforcing the lessons learned as the point-and-click world tour progresses. By combining varied and beautiful landscapes with the thrill of the chase, Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego? teaches and entertains, seamlessly combining its educational content with its adventure component, and offering--if you keep your wits--the satisfaction of thwarting one of computer gaming's most notorious thieves. --Alyx Dellamonica |
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Americancivilwar.com Product Description |
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Get on the case! The world has lost all the salt from the Dead Sea, the gargoyles from Notre Dame, even the steps to the tango. As a detective, the player's job is to interrogate informants, track clues, and arrest the thief--all before their battery meter runs out. Advance through eight ranks and 40 challenging cases while becoming immersed in different cultures and locations rich with history, art, music, and more than 200 animated characters. Expand kids' knowledge of world geography and cultures as they travel to 50 countries, gather clues, and take guided tours through scrolling landscapes filled with music. To solve cases or gather information for school assignments, a rich electronic database is included, featuring essays, spectacular color photos, and video clips from the National Geographic Society. |
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Great but need to update the software |
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I purchased this for my 9 and 10 year olds as a supplement to help with their homeschool geography lessons. They absolutely love it. I have to tear them away to get them to do their other work. The only issue is that it does not seem to be compatible with later versions of Windows (XP - in our case), so the program frequently freezes and requires a restart which is very frustrating for the children. |
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Your CD cover image is incorrect! |
I bought this product under the pretense it was the Carmen Sandiego game from 1996, simply based on the description and jewel case cover photo. I was sent a copy of the game made in 2001.
The updated version is a perfectly workable game. I just wanted the one I played back in middle school! |
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Windows XP Instructions |
First uninstall the game (if it's installed) then proceed.
- Click Start
- Click My Computer
- Right-click on your CD drive icon
- Click Search
- Type *.exe
- Press Enter then wait for the search to complete
About 18 files should have been found.
For each of those files, perform the following six steps:
1. Right click on the file
2. Click Properties
3. Click on the Compatibility tab
4. Check the box next to "Run this program in compatibility mode for:"
5. Choose Windows 95 from the drop-down list
6. Click OK
(Yes, you need to repeat those six steps for every file.)
That's it.
Now the game should install and work fine.
Be sure to install QuickTime when asked to during the installation process.
NOTE:
While playing the game, the video clips are likely to be of lower quality than they would be on an actual Windows 95 computer.
This is because your display is automatically switched to 256-color mode when the game starts, and Windows XP won't allow the video clips to play using 16-bit color while the game is running in 256-color mode.
Windows 95, however, does allow this.
If you discover a way to force XP to show the clips in 16-bit color, please post instructions.
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Where in the World is the old Carmen Sandiego Game? |
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I prefer playing the old game that came out in the 80s/90s. This game was too cartoonish. |
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My inner child |
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Used to play this game when I was little, so I thought I'd take a stroll down memory lane. It's not as exciting as I used to remember it, but it still brings out my inner child. |
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