Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego? (1996)

Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego? is a 1996 educational video game and the third version of the 1985 game Where in the Word is Carmen Sandiego? and its 1992 Deluxe version. It was released shortly after the fifth and final season PBS TV series came to an end.

Gameplay

The chase

Unlike in the previous games, the image of the locations took up most of the screen, with the game options only taking up the bottom third of the screen. Each location had an elaborately painted backdrop that could be scrolled around a full three hundred and sixty degrees. Each location provided clues in the form of several bystanders and scraps of paper lying on the ground. The scraps of paper exclusively provided clues about the suspect's appearance.

The bystanders, on the other hand, could either be asked where the suspect went, in which case they would provide a geography clue, or what the suspect looks like, in which case they would make a casual comment about one of the suspect's physical attributes, i.e. "You'd lose sight of her if stepped behind a lightpost." or "His height wasn't standard for basketball, but it was perfect for miniature golf." Although speech balloons were still used on them, bystanders spoke their dialogue aloud as well. The text of notes and of bystanders' dialogue could be dragged into an "electronic notepad" in the bottom right corner of the screen for reference.

The warrant and the arrest

Another change is that the user is not given dossiers describing the members of V.I.L.E. and that all the clues given about the suspect are physical traits, enabling the user to identify the crook on sight. This means that the user will have to compile a full warrant rather than one of just enough traits to distinguish which crook is responsible. In the final destination, the crook is seen walking around the location with several innocent bystanders, meaning the user will have to use the warrant to identify which person is the criminal. The crook's name is only given after the arrest, in which a newspaper (The Worldly Blab) appears with a headline declaring the criminal has been captured. If the person arrested does not match the warrant, they will be found innocent and released just as they would if the warrant were inaccurate or not issued. Eight of the thirty-nine crooks captured over the course of the game each provided a single line of verse. These eight verses, once pieced together, created a poem that read as follows:

I'll steal the planet's treasures till there's nothing precious left.

I never wear a watch because it's always time for theft.

Loot is on my mind, though something else is on my head.

Why should I take a picture, I'll just steal the scene instead.

I always hide the things I steal regardless of their size.

And I don't wear any sunglasses to protect my eager eyes.

A special Trophy will be mine, the plan is now in motion.

I adorn my neck with loot I stole from oysters in the ocean.

Upon reaching the final destination on the final case, the Chief calls to inform the user that the culprit is Carmen Sandiego and that the poem indicates she is wearing a pearl necklace. The user then finds the location inhabited by several women resembling Carmen, but that only one of them is wearing pearls. After the user and all the seven Good Guides successfully captures Carmen and the ICK Brothers, The Chief informs the user that Carmen's ultimate plan was to "steal" ACME Headquarters (the "Trophy" in question) and that the user has therefore not only captured Carmen herself, but saved ACME itself. Afterwards, the user is later inducted at the ACME Detective Hall of Fame on the World Wiz Database and retired. If the user accidentally catches the wrong character, Carmen will escape and breaks three of her criminal henchmen out from ACME prison, immediately producing three more cases for the user to solve.

Characters

The ACME Good Guides are a group of colorful characters who, if called upon, provide information about the current country and the direct surroundings. If the user calls an ACME Good Guide during a case, that guide will call back later to inform the user whether or not their warrant has any errors. If the user wishes to take tours with the Good Guides and travel to countries without the inconvenience of having to track a crook, "explorer mode" is available.

Countries

Countries visited on the third edition of Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego?

Continent	Countries
North American	Canada, Cuba, Guatemala, Mexico, Panama, United States
South America	Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Peru
Europe	Austria, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Netherlands, Russia, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom
Asia	Afghanistan, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Iran, Israel, Japan, Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Turkey, Vietnam
Africa	Egypt, Kenya, Morocco, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania. Zaira
Oceania	Australia, New Zealand

List of stolen items

Item Stolen	Country of origin
Khyber Pass	Afghanistan
The steps to the Tango	Argentina
Uluru	Australia
The baton used to lead the Vienna Boys Choir	Austria
The fish from half of Lake Titicaca	Bolivia
The plans for this year's Carnival	Brazil
The Silver Pagoda	Cambodia
The game winning puck from the first Stanley Cup championship	Canada
The Strait of Magellan	Chile
The keys to the Forbidden City	China
Havana's best Cigars cigars	Cuba
The writing desk of Hans Christian Andersen	Denmark
The Nile River Delta	Egypt
The gargoyles from Notre Dame Cathedral	France
The keys from Beethoven's first piano	Germany
The Olympic Flame	Greece
The best coffee	Guatemala
All the goulash	Hungary
Geysir	Iceland
Gandhi's glasses	India
The island of Bali	Indonesia
The Presidential Palace's finest rug	Iran
The salt from the Dead Sea	Israel
The Sistine Chapel's ceiling	Italy
The snow from atop Mt. Fuji	Japan
Nairobi International Airport	Kenya
Every last drop of salsa	Mexico
The entire city of Casablanca	Morocco
The Abominable Snowman	Nepal
The dykes	The Netherlands
All the kiwi birds	New Zealand
The delta of the Niger River	Nigeria
K2	Pakistan
The controls for the Panama Canal	Panama
The headwaters of the Amazon River	Peru
A monkey-eating eagle	The Philippines
The Trans-Siberian Railroad	Russia
The middle of the Trans-Arabian Pipeline	Saudi Arabia
The statue of Sir Stamford Raffles	Singapore
The Cape of Good Hope	South Africa
The secret recipe for kimchee	South Korea
The bulls from Pamplona Pamplona	Spain
The court stage from Drottningholm Palace	Sweden
The Ngorongoro Crater	Tanzania
King's Siamese cat	Thailand
Every anchovy from the Black Sea	Turkey
The keys to the Tower of London	The United Kingdom
The Statue of Liberty's torch	The United States
The Mekong River	Vietnam
The Zaire River Ferry	Zaire

V.I.L.E.

The following members of V.I.L.E. are criminals that the player must catch for each of the cases and each of their crimes:

Suspect	Pun	Gender	Hair Color	Height	Weight	Wearing	Captured by
Anita Bath	I need a bath	Female	Red	Medium	Thin	Hat	Ann Tickwittee
Art Schrival	Archrival	Male	Grey	Short	Thin	Hat	Kim Yoonity
Auntie Matter	Antimatter	Female	Grey	Medium	Average	Glasses	Ann Tickwittee
Barb Dwyer	Barbed wire	Female	Black	Medium	Average	Hat	Ivan Idea
Barry Koodah	Barracuda	Male	Blond	Medium	Heavy	Hat	Ann Tickwittee
Buzz "Ted" Loose	Busted loose	Male	Black	Tall	Heavy	Glasses	Herman Nootix
Dee Pockets	Deep Pockets	Female	Red	Tall	Average	Watch	Renee Santz
Dinah Myte	Dynamite	Female	Blond	Short	Average	Watch	Kim Yoonity
Don N. Hout	Down and out	Male	Brown	Short	Heavy	Camera	Rock Solid
Flo N. Eddy	Flo and Eddie	Female	Grey	Medium	Heavy	Hat	Ann Tickwittee
Hal E. Tosis	Halitosis	Male	Grey	Short	Heavy	Glasses	Kim Yoonity
Harry Bacque	Hairy back	Male	Red	Tall	Average	Camera	Renee Santz
Herb Aside	Herbicide	Male	Blond	Tall	Thin	Camera	Herman Nootix
Indy Slammer	In the slammer	Male	Brown	Medium	Thin	Watch	Ivan Idea
Ivana Steele	I wanna steal	Female	Grey	Tall	Average	Watch	Dee Plomassy
Jack Cheez	Jack cheese	Male	Red	Medium	Average	Camera	Herman Nootix
Jerri Riggs	Jury-rigs	Female	Black	Medium	Heavy	Glasses	Herman Nootix
Jonah Fark	Joan of Arc	Male	Grey	Short	Average	Hat	Kim Yoonity
Kay Serrah-Serrah	Que Sera, Sera	Female	Brown	Medium	Average	Camera	Ann Tickwittee
Ken U. Sparadigm	Can you spare a dime?	Male	Black	Tall	Thin	Watch	Renee Santz
Leia D. Land	Lay of the land	Female	Red	Medium	Thin	Camera	Herman Nootix
Les Cash	Less cash	Male	Black	Medium	Thin	Camera	Ivan Idea
Lisa Carr	Lease a car	Female	Brown	Short	Heavy	Watch	Kim Yoonity
Lou Pole	Loophole	Male	Blond	Tall	Thin	Hat	Dee Plomassy
M.T. Pockets	Empty pockets	Female	Blond	Tall	Heavy	Camera	Dee Plomassy
Mac R. Roni	Macaroni	Male	Brown	Tall	Heavy	Camera	Dee Plomassy
May K. Deal	Make a deal	Female	Brown	Tall	Average	Glasses	Renee Santz
Meg Maidey	Make my day	Female	Grey	Short	Heavy	Glasses	Rock Solid
Mel Function	Malfunction	Male	Red	Short	Heavy	Glasses	Rock Solid
Miss Ann Stuf	Missing stuff	Female	Black	Tall	Thin	Hat	Renee Santz
Olive Yermunny	All of your money	Female	Red	Tall	Thin	Watch	Renee Santz
Penny Pincher	Penny-pincher	Female	Black	Short	Thin	Glasses	Rock Solid
Phil O. Dendron	Philodendron	Male	Brown	Tall	Average	Glasses	Herman Nootix
Rob M. Blind	Rob 'em blind	Male	Red	Medium	Average	Glasses	Ivan Idea
Ruth Less	Ruthless	Female	Blond	Medium	Heavy	Glasses	Ivan Idea
"Shaky" Al LeBye	Shaky alibi	Male	Grey	Short	Thin	Glasses	Rock Solid
Skip N. Skule	Skipping school	Male	Brown	Short	Average	Watch	Rock Solid
Stu L. Pidjin	Stool pigeon	Male	Blond	Tall	Heavy	Hat	Dee Plomassy
Tsu Mi	Sue me	Female	Brown	Short	Thin	Watch	Kim Yoonity

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