Where On Earth Is Carmen San Diego
Each bit of edutainment I’ve sampled thus far has felt insincere. I never played the Carmen Sandiego games and were I to start, I wouldn’t pick the DOS version. Good God look at it:
I think I did watch that cartoon, though. Watching a bit of it now it’s remarkable how similar the concept is to the DOS game. Carmen gives the detectives clues, learning happens, and then they follow those clues to more clues. There are even educational bits of dialogue. One of Carmen’s henchmen pushes the protagonists out of a helicopter and Carmen goes, “Don’t you ever do that again. There are always choices when you use your brains and not your brawn.”
*shudder*
There must be some very smart people behind the Carmen Sandiego franchise if it has been this successful. They make Carmen Sandiego hot then tell you to chase her. It’s like they knew I would fall for that MY WHOLE LIFE.
i did play a ton of Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego as a kid. i really loved it, but i found it too hard. who integrates learning into a game?
then world of warcraft came. no learning required for that one. thank god.
It doesn’t look TOO bad considering that they had, what, sixteen colors to work with back then.
Yes that’s true. But the sounds hurt you today, yes? *blip blip blip* *dun dun* *blip blip blip* *dun dun*
I’m still waiting for the complete series compilation pack, Where in the Fuck is Carmen Sandiego?
Is … is that a sexy game?
OMG did you ever see the game show??? I used to watch it religiously every time it came on. But the game… nah I’m pretty sure I passed on the game. I preferred to watch little brats struggle to find Carmen by struggling with 5th grade trivia and geography.
GREAT comic, guys :D
I avoided that show big time. I hope. Please don’t let me watch a YouTube clip and find the same recognition I did with the cartoon …