What is Where in Time Is Carmen Sandiego? Deluxe?

Where In Time is the fourth in the ever-popular Carmen Sandiego series. Where In Europe/USA/World Is Carmen Sandiego? teach geography to the young user; Where In Time adds time travel (read: history) to the geographic jaunt.

Once again, the Acme Detective Agency has assigned you the task of tracking Carmen Sandiego and her gang across the globe. This time the baddies have come into possession of a time machine that lets them make off with international treasures from the past. Acme has supplied you with the Chronoskimmer 325i, a time-travel device that whisks you to 48 locations over the span of 1,500 years.

As you travel from one location to another, you gather clues about a particular villain who has, for example, absconded with the bulls of Pamplona. By questioning informants and witnesses, you learn about the villain's physical attributes as well as his artistic and literary preferences, and you pick up clues that let you track him to the next location in time. If you correctly guess the thief's identity and trace him to his final destination before the timer runs out, a robot is dispatched to haul the scoundrel to the hoosegow and you can progress to the next case.

Where In Time Is Carmen Sandiego? is bound to be a best-seller for the same reason that sugary vitamin supplements continue to find their way into children. Adults will buy this game for their kids because it's good for them, and the kids will want to play it because it's entertaining enough for them to excuse the educational inconvenience.

Breen, Christopher. (April 1991). Where In Time Is Carmen Sandiego? MacUser. (pgs. 83-84).

Download Where in Time Is Carmen Sandiego? Deluxe for Mac

Architecture

Motorola 68K

System Requirements

From Mac OS 4.2 up to Mac OS 9.2

Compatibility notes

Emulating this? It could probably run under: Basilisk II