I could barely speak English when I first played this game, it really helped me learn and learn about the world in a comfortable and non-threatening space. So many feels and love for this game.
I'm still the only member of my family to apprehend Carmen Sandiego in "Where in the U.S.A" that I played on my Packard Bell; the one that came with The Journeyman Project in '95. I was 9-10 depending on the time of year. It was after school, my mom was watching General Hospital. I think I had about 50+ solved cases to my name. I cheered so loudly when the judge banged that gavel down to find her guilty my mom told me to shut up cause I interrupted the show. Good stuff.
I actually received the game as a birthday gift the same year it came out, so at the time, it was likely from Best Buy. I'm not sure how rare the game is since I've owned it for years, but you may want to try amazon or eBay.
Definitely my favourite version of Carmen Sandiego, too. Still have the CD, and Windows 98 installed in VMWare to play it, if the nostalgic urge strikes. Reaching Super Sleuth and capturing Carmen was one of my proudest childhood gaming moments. Damn it, now I'm going to have to play it all over again...
Carmen Sandiego, an Airplane reference, Bryan Adams playing in the background and Calendar Girl during the outro?? That's one hell of a review! The nostalgia is strong with this one.
I loved this series when I was a kid. I had five of the Pc games, some of the book, and the Where in the USA board game. Plus I loved both game shows. Now if only steam or gog would re-release them...
Rogue Rifter I remember seeing some episodes on pbs when I was 8 in 1992 use to watch a lot of episodes of square one tv and Sesame Street at the time😊
I remember having the Sega Master System version of Where is the World is Carmen Sandiego. The instruction manual was essential, as it acted as your atlas, with information on each country, as well as info on each criminal. Also, the henchmen and criminals shot at you. So you basically got into firefights with them, and had to take them down before you could arrest them. And if you took a bullet, you had to recover in the hospital, which ate up your time limit. Not to mention the only way to get Warrants and what not was to use the phone booth in each area. I don't remember anyone in my family every finishing the game, due to it's length, and difficulty.
This was my childhood and I can still tell you in detail nearly every location/story beat 😂 I’m 30 and this game is still one of my strongest memories lol
Great review, as always! The black, and white scene with the chief felt like a subtle nod to LaserFrog's review style, nicely done. Keep up the good work Roses.
Great video as always. I remember Where in time is Carmen Sandiego being a complete pain to play. Also love that you put Calendar Girl at the end. It's your evil plan to get it stuck in everyone's head while you do the Neil Sedaka dance.
I never played any of the "Where in the World" games as a kid. The only Carmen game I played was "Junior Detective". However, I recently got my hands on a copy of the 1996 version of "World" for Windows, and my God, is it awesome. I played a quick (one case) game today, and it was surprisingly thrilling.
I have found all of the DOS games and am currently working on this one and where in Space. I can't get through one mission with Where in Space so far. I can't even get through the questions it's like WTFH? but really hard core Carmen Sandiego fan. I have said it before and I will say it again, she is a BADASS and it's really fun tracking her down. I have come back to the games after playing them both at home and on the school computers and I STILL can spend hours on them too. LOVE THIS REVIEW! :)
April is Edutainment month, so the last few reviews have been on Edutainment games. This game ran on Windows, not DOS - and the previous reviews have been on games that ran on either operating system.
I loved astronomy and outer space as a kid, so I used to play Where in Space is Carmen Sandiego. I don't remember much about it anymore, except that clues sometimes hinged on things like the names of random craters on the moon, which no one should be expected to know. Maybe I should give it a second look.
Handy dandy...Notebook! Thank you for that. I never played any carmen games, other than a board game once or twice at day care(it went from babies to about fourth grade age, ran by a local church). But I watched the cartoon, and the game show quite a lot as a lil'n. It was my nerdy kid version of jeopardy. Great vid, as is typical for you, typically.
Oh, and I read some of the books as well. Although I think my favorite detective-like/type books as a kid were actually encyclopedia brown. 🤔 wonder if there were ever any games of that...that would be a find.
Oh god, I had that Carmen Sandiego Word Detective game for the PC! It was a fucking pain in the ass! You had to save 12 agents that had been kidnapped prior to you and locked in an actual Tower of Babel and basically the whole game was traveling through time, looking for vague hard to find clues, it was difficult as hell and the backtracking. OH GOD, THE BACK TRACKING!!!
Omg thank you lol. Ive been trying to figure out which Carmen San Diego game i grew up playing, and show it to my friends. This is it, MYSTERY SOLVED! !! lol
Well, it's all over now. Ross Scott of Ross's Game Dungeon found her. He finally found her. Apparently the reason nobody has found her until now is because she really likes hanging out INSIDE the earth o.O
I had Carmen Sandiego: Word Detective, but then I lost it. I miss it, and the cluefinders games. you should review one or few of the cluefinders games. I played the reading adventure, 4th grade, and 5th grade, couldn't find the others.
I have some ClueFinders Let's Plays, if you want to see them. I should warn you, though, I recorded them on my video camera years ago before I got an online screen capture license from Bandicam. Also, I admin a ClueFinders Facebook page!
This was the very first game I ever bought! I believe I was about 7 or 8 years old. My dad bought it for me for 80 bucks! I still have it in box complete with the world almanac book it came with...may have to do an unboxing
Now that I see this, this game might have sparked my impulse to come live in Europe. First time in Budapest may have felt more familiar than I expected for a reason.
I've never played any of the Carmen Sandiego video games, but I used to have a really good Where In The World Is Carmen Sandiego Board Game that I would bring to elementary school and, for a day, experience the life of a popular kid XD
I remember in 2009 when the very first trailer for “Despicable Me” came out in the movie theatre, I really thought it was going to be the awesome animated movie version of “Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?” So disappointed.
Aw man, the nostalgia... While I've never had the chance to play this particular game, I used to love playing the Where in Time one (the 1997 version) :D I found it fairly easy though, and only got stuck when I got confused with some printing press puzzle... I don't remember it requiring much history knowledge though XD Anyways, great review like usual :>
I remember also playing the FMV version based on the PBS show on a Mac at school, which was rather cool. Hardy-har-har, kinda made a rhyme, but it's true. Although, I'm trying to remember which version of Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego I played. I know the Where in the USA is Carmen Sandiego game looked a lot like the version that you played. Perhaps it might have been the 1990 version, since that was preinstalled on a computer we got back in 1992, I believe?
yeeing this video years later....i finally knew where the history video guy gets his name from.... "sam o'nella academy"..... when you read that name it make me look up with that familiar ahhhhh thats where i heard it before.... :) but the favorite thing in the video was "he wore a rubber suit" "wink" ;)
I once rage quit a Carmen Sandiego game as a kid! It was a game that was more geared around science than straight up geography...I was answering every single question correct until I accidentally answered a question about thunder and lighting wrong, I was so upset at myself that I just turned the game off and never finished it. Ahh memories.
I played where in time is carmen sandiego for the Apple II when I was younger. If you didn't know your history then you really would fail miserably. I only beat the game a couple of times before we upgraded computers and played Where in the world is carmen sandeigo, the version before this one. However this is making me wish for simpler times and I think I'll try to find my old CD ROM of this game and fire it up again. This will be awesome Roses!
I think I remember this game, but it was different. Carmen had a cat in the intro, and her suit was a different color. Me personally, I think I played the spinoffs (Word Detective, Math Detective and Where in Time especially) more than this game, because I liked them more. I never did beat any of them though, which always bothered me! And now Where In Time doesn't even install on my computer anymore!
Unfortunately, I missed the boat for the original Carmen Sandiego game by a few years, so my first real experience with the series was the "Carmen Sandiego Word Detective" game, which first came into my life as a free prize in a box of cereal. It's actually pretty good! However, I could never finish it as a kid, because my yet-to-be-diagnosed anxiety disorder made the villains coming home to their hideout the SCARIEST THING EVER to me. I had no idea they couldn't ACTUALLY catch you. *facepalm*
I never actually played anything with Carmen Sandiego in it, not even at school. My school computers were all Math Blaster and SimAnt and junk. They were also Mac computers. I think we got a grand total of two Windows computers in as new machines when I got to eighth grade, and they had Croc: Legend of the Gobbos on them, which was pretty fun... but, since there were only two, it was a bit of a turn-taking drag finding time to play them, especially since by then the old Macs were hideously outdated and behind the times in terms of everything, which sort of made that Computer class very close to worthless. Our school was pretty cheap as hell. Ironic since the computer class was in a library under the rectory.
Great review as always. However, I think this game was more of a US game as I've never played it. I remember the cartoon on TV at some point, but it wasn't big at all over here in England. Good to see a new game though so thanks again! ;) x
I could barely speak English when I first played this game, it really helped me learn and learn about the world in a comfortable and non-threatening space. So many feels and love for this game.
I'm still the only member of my family to apprehend Carmen Sandiego in "Where in the U.S.A" that I played on my Packard Bell; the one that came with The Journeyman Project in '95. I was 9-10 depending on the time of year. It was after school, my mom was watching General Hospital. I think I had about 50+ solved cases to my name. I cheered so loudly when the judge banged that gavel down to find her guilty my mom told me to shut up cause I interrupted the show. Good stuff.
"Guilty"
That robot police dude's speech impediment reminds me of Max Headroom, and the chief reminds me of Bill Nye... with a tasche.
I actually received the game as a birthday gift the same year it came out, so at the time, it was likely from Best Buy. I'm not sure how rare the game is since I've owned it for years, but you may want to try amazon or eBay.
Definitely my favourite version of Carmen Sandiego, too. Still have the CD, and Windows 98 installed in VMWare to play it, if the nostalgic urge strikes.
Reaching Super Sleuth and capturing Carmen was one of my proudest childhood gaming moments. Damn it, now I'm going to have to play it all over again...
I was just punched so hard by the fist of nostalgia that I didn't even see stars, I saw little red hats! Thanks for the video.
I want a gritty reboot called "Where In The Hell Is Carmen Sandiego?" Preferably directed by David Fincher. With Rooney Mara as Carmen.
THERE'S A REBOOT NOW - on Netflix, not really gritty tho, but I'm enjoying it!
Eiza Gonzales or Ana de Armais.
Could be a Doom Eternal crossover.
AdLib Neil Sedaka endings are the best kind of endings.
And this game really does still hold up today, it's just awesome. Even the original version!
Carmen Sandiego, an Airplane reference, Bryan Adams playing in the background and Calendar Girl during the outro?? That's one hell of a review! The nostalgia is strong with this one.
I loved this series when I was a kid. I had five of the Pc games, some of the book, and the Where in the USA board game. Plus I loved both game shows. Now if only steam or gog would re-release them...
Rogue Rifter I remember seeing some episodes on pbs when I was 8 in 1992 use to watch a lot of episodes of square one tv and Sesame Street at the time😊
I used to play this at school and remember liking it, too. And I used to watch the game show, too. It had the best theme song of all time.
I remember having the Sega Master System version of Where is the World is Carmen Sandiego. The instruction manual was essential, as it acted as your atlas, with information on each country, as well as info on each criminal. Also, the henchmen and criminals shot at you. So you basically got into firefights with them, and had to take them down before you could arrest them. And if you took a bullet, you had to recover in the hospital, which ate up your time limit. Not to mention the only way to get Warrants and what not was to use the phone booth in each area. I don't remember anyone in my family every finishing the game, due to it's length, and difficulty.
OMG.
"Where to, gumshoe", this has haunted me for DECADES
My name is Carmen. When I lived in San Diego, well.. Those jokes never got old.
This was my childhood and I can still tell you in detail nearly every location/story beat 😂 I’m 30 and this game is still one of my strongest memories lol
that robot sounds like he starts every word with a capital letter.
Great review, as always! The black, and white scene with the chief felt like a subtle nod to LaserFrog's review style, nicely done. Keep up the good work Roses.
Great video as always. I remember Where in time is Carmen Sandiego being a complete pain to play. Also love that you put Calendar Girl at the end. It's your evil plan to get it stuck in everyone's head while you do the Neil Sedaka dance.
I never played any of the "Where in the World" games as a kid. The only Carmen game I played was "Junior Detective".
However, I recently got my hands on a copy of the 1996 version of "World" for Windows, and my God, is it awesome. I played a quick (one case) game today, and it was surprisingly thrilling.
I loved Carmen Sandiego. It was so much fun. I remember whiling away the hours playing that game and the tv show was incredible for its time.
I have found all of the DOS games and am currently working on this one and where in Space. I can't get through one mission with Where in Space so far. I can't even get through the questions it's like WTFH? but really hard core Carmen Sandiego fan. I have said it before and I will say it again, she is a BADASS and it's really fun tracking her down. I have come back to the games after playing them both at home and on the school computers and I STILL can spend hours on them too. LOVE THIS REVIEW! :)
Loved the ending :) You rock, Roses! :)
Where we get to steal famous landmarks and Jimmy Cliff soundtracks? I'd be on board for that.
Not only did you review a fantastic game, but you also made a reference to one of the best movies ever?
*rapes the Subscribe button*
-Rory
Carmen Santiago is such a classic. Such an icon.
Welcome to ACME. I'm good at a lot of the Carmen Sandiego games. I'm a Super Sleuth, Time Sleuth, Agent 9, Agent 13 & Juggernaut Agent.
April is Edutainment month, so the last few reviews have been on Edutainment games. This game ran on Windows, not DOS - and the previous reviews have been on games that ran on either operating system.
I loved this game, played it with my best friend. I feel we both leant a lot and had a blast.
my memories of carmen sandiego were the PBS game show for kids and where in time on my sister's old PC.
I remembered playing this and also the Where in time is Carmen Sandiego one.
Another lovely review as always, Sarah :D
I loved astronomy and outer space as a kid, so I used to play Where in Space is Carmen Sandiego. I don't remember much about it anymore, except that clues sometimes hinged on things like the names of random craters on the moon, which no one should be expected to know. Maybe I should give it a second look.
I used to love this game when i was a kid. This and Oregon Trail 2. good times.
Handy dandy...Notebook!
Thank you for that. I never played any carmen games, other than a board game once or twice at day care(it went from babies to about fourth grade age, ran by a local church). But I watched the cartoon, and the game show quite a lot as a lil'n. It was my nerdy kid version of jeopardy. Great vid, as is typical for you, typically.
Oh, and I read some of the books as well.
Although I think my favorite detective-like/type books as a kid were actually encyclopedia brown. 🤔 wonder if there were ever any games of that...that would be a find.
Sarah Nade - Serenade - You probably knew, but as you didn't mention it I just wanted to point out that well-working pun
Why Did The 90s Have to End?Why Did I've to Grow up Past Age 8?AAAAAAARRRRRRRRGGGGGGGHHHHHH,I Miss my Childhood
It is part of my agreement with RetrowareTV. It is exclusive to them for a day, and then I make it public to UA-cam afterwards.
Oh god, I had that Carmen Sandiego Word Detective game for the PC! It was a fucking pain in the ass! You had to save 12 agents that had been kidnapped prior to you and locked in an actual Tower of Babel and basically the whole game was traveling through time, looking for vague hard to find clues, it was difficult as hell and the backtracking. OH GOD, THE BACK TRACKING!!!
Why was that really good where in the world is carmen sandiego song from 1991 not here?
I love that song!
Where in the world is *carmen sandiego*
Omg thank you lol. Ive been trying to figure out which Carmen San Diego game i grew up playing, and show it to my friends. This is it, MYSTERY SOLVED! !! lol
That 8 bit calendar girl tune at the end was brilliantly random
I played this all the time when I was little, growing I wanted to be Carmen Sandiego, and even being grown up that desire is still there.
Why does that always make me crack up? "Better watch out, or he may fall on you."
Well, it's all over now. Ross Scott of Ross's Game Dungeon found her. He finally found her. Apparently the reason nobody has found her until now is because she really likes hanging out INSIDE the earth o.O
I had Carmen Sandiego: Word Detective, but then I lost it. I miss it, and the cluefinders games. you should review one or few of the cluefinders games. I played the reading adventure, 4th grade, and 5th grade, couldn't find the others.
I have some ClueFinders Let's Plays, if you want to see them. I should warn you, though, I recorded them on my video camera years ago before I got an online screen capture license from Bandicam. Also, I admin a ClueFinders Facebook page!
This was the very first game I ever bought! I believe I was about 7 or 8 years old. My dad bought it for me for 80 bucks! I still have it in box complete with the world almanac book it came with...may have to do an unboxing
Haha! Loved the end. Great review as always.
An Airplane reference??? And it's the best one? Yup, I'm a subscriber now.
Now that I see this, this game might have sparked my impulse to come live in Europe. First time in Budapest may have felt more familiar than I expected for a reason.
I've never played any of the Carmen Sandiego video games, but I used to have a really good Where In The World Is Carmen Sandiego Board Game that I would bring to elementary school and, for a day, experience the life of a popular kid XD
I remember in 2009 when the very first trailer for “Despicable Me” came out in the movie theatre, I really thought it was going to be the awesome animated movie version of “Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?” So disappointed.
ey, if that soundtrack is to the film "The Harder they Come" then that is some FINE ass loot. great album
Aw man, the nostalgia... While I've never had the chance to play this particular game, I used to love playing the Where in Time one (the 1997 version) :D I found it fairly easy though, and only got stuck when I got confused with some printing press puzzle... I don't remember it requiring much history knowledge though XD
Anyways, great review like usual :>
The punny named suspects are all 90's add-ons. The non-punny names are from the original '85 version.
I remember also playing the FMV version based on the PBS show on a Mac at school, which was rather cool.
Hardy-har-har, kinda made a rhyme, but it's true.
Although, I'm trying to remember which version of Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego I played. I know the Where in the USA is Carmen Sandiego game looked a lot like the version that you played. Perhaps it might have been the 1990 version, since that was preinstalled on a computer we got back in 1992, I believe?
I've never played any of the carmen sandiego games but i remember watching the show in the planeta U show
Hal E. Tosis was my favorite pun name
I love the slackers. Me and my girlfriend sarah went to see them. That song always makes me think of her
I'm astonished that you were able to get it working. I still have my CD for this game, but it won't work; even on virtual machines.
The box art at 0:37 is the exact scan of my childhood version I uploaded to mobygames! It wasn't the deluxe version though, it was the floppy version.
yeeing this video years later....i finally knew where the history video guy gets his name from.... "sam o'nella academy"..... when you read that name it make me look up with that familiar ahhhhh thats where i heard it before.... :)
but the favorite thing in the video was "he wore a rubber suit" "wink" ;)
I once rage quit a Carmen Sandiego game as a kid! It was a game that was more geared around science than straight up geography...I was answering every single question correct until I accidentally answered a question about thunder and lighting wrong, I was so upset at myself that I just turned the game off and never finished it. Ahh memories.
That hit me right in the nostalgia, I like Carmen Sandiego so much I actually played the Facebook game.... which was.... A Facebook game. :|
I remember having a Carmen Sandiego PC game but it was definitely from 2000 or 2001 and it was really hard!
i love how the rome picture is pisa's leaning tower
I was so happy it was this version, because that's what I had.
You and Paw MUST do a Let's Play of this. O_O
The Warrant Robot scared the crap out of me as a kid.
RIP Rose's phone thing
When I was young Where In Time Is Carmen Sandiego is what I grew up with, I have the encyclopedia and box set in perfect condition, oh nostalgia.
Sell it to me by any chance?
It's as nostalgia piece, I can't let it ho man, sorry, but you can get it online pretty cheap
Where in time is carman sandigeo is shit "World" Is better
Thanks for spending so much time in Norway :D
Yep, I knew. :) I love all things musical.
I can't believe people are noticing that..!
Awesome review, Roses!! You're pretty great =D!
I like the 1996 versions of the Carmen Sandiego World/US games best.
I love the intro !
nostalgie!!
-theme song stuck in head-
Only half way through this video. Gotta say one thing about this game, those V.I.L.E Henchmen always scared me as a kid..
I played where in time is carmen sandiego for the Apple II when I was younger. If you didn't know your history then you really would fail miserably. I only beat the game a couple of times before we upgraded computers and played Where in the world is carmen sandeigo, the version before this one. However this is making me wish for simpler times and I think I'll try to find my old CD ROM of this game and fire it up again. This will be awesome Roses!
I loved the show when I was younger.
OhmyGOSH I've been trying to find someone who actually reviewed this game! Sweet!!
I think I remember this game, but it was different. Carmen had a cat in the intro, and her suit was a different color. Me personally, I think I played the spinoffs (Word Detective, Math Detective and Where in Time especially) more than this game, because I liked them more. I never did beat any of them though, which always bothered me! And now Where In Time doesn't even install on my computer anymore!
I remember playing this non stop from my MS-DOS. I caught most of the suspects, but I wasn't able to catch the Carmen herself. Anyway, good vid~!
Unfortunately, I missed the boat for the original Carmen Sandiego game by a few years, so my first real experience with the series was the "Carmen Sandiego Word Detective" game, which first came into my life as a free prize in a box of cereal. It's actually pretty good! However, I could never finish it as a kid, because my yet-to-be-diagnosed anxiety disorder made the villains coming home to their hideout the SCARIEST THING EVER to me. I had no idea they couldn't ACTUALLY catch you. *facepalm*
Yeah, it really does seem like it, doesn't? I wonder about that, myself.
I couldn't find her.
I love pushing up roses content. Where can I get the games you play? Particularly, where can I get this game? I have not played since I was a kid.
I remember these from the old times.
I was thinking that the chief sounded extremely similar to Seymour from Final Fantasy X. Turns out that's because they share a voice actor.
Aaand now that Theme song is stuck in my head.
I love watched the cartoon when I was a kid. I just recently knew it was from a game. Thanks to your good review now i know which version I'll chose.
I never actually played anything with Carmen Sandiego in it, not even at school. My school computers were all Math Blaster and SimAnt and junk. They were also Mac computers. I think we got a grand total of two Windows computers in as new machines when I got to eighth grade, and they had Croc: Legend of the Gobbos on them, which was pretty fun... but, since there were only two, it was a bit of a turn-taking drag finding time to play them, especially since by then the old Macs were hideously outdated and behind the times in terms of everything, which sort of made that Computer class very close to worthless.
Our school was pretty cheap as hell. Ironic since the computer class was in a library under the rectory.
Warren is obviously an homage to Max Headroom!
Out of all the culprit names, somehow "Nick Brunch" made me laugh. It's just... so normal sounding compared to the rest.
since there is a new series will you be reviewing that?
Where is Chief.and Rockapella. I had the version with the WGBH cast in it.
First version 85. The 89 DOS / Amiga floppy version is the definitive. Less stupid puns and no stupid robot.
Great review as always. However, I think this game was more of a US game as I've never played it. I remember the cartoon on TV at some point, but it wasn't big at all over here in England. Good to see a new game though so thanks again! ;) x
I was watching Doctor Who... then I realized that you made a video. The Doctor can wait!