Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Lee Galese – Carmen Sandiego's lawyer who acts as executor of her estate in "Follow My Footprints" and as her defense attorney in "The Trial of Carmen Sandiego." His name is a play on "legalese." Manny Mistakes – An absent-minded computer technician who appears in "Just Like Old Times". His name is a play on "many mistakes", though his last ...
Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego? Version 2.0, 1996 PC World Class Award, PC World, 1996; Carmen Sandiego Junior Detective Edition, Silver Apple Award, National Educational Media Network, May 1996; Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego? Version 2.0, Codie Award – Best Secondary Education Program, Software Publishers Association, March 1995
Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego? is an American half-hour children's television game show based on the Carmen Sandiego computer game series created by Broderbund.The show was hosted by Greg Lee, who was joined by Lynne Thigpen and the a cappella vocal group Rockapella, who served as the show's house band and comedy troupe.
Before the show began, the viewing audience would see Carmen Sandiego in her V.I.L.E. headquarters. In Season 1, Carmen appeared in a fourth wall type of narration. In Season 2, a surveillance nano-probe from ACME filmed Carmen in her lair where it went unnoticed.
In the games, ACME Headquarters is primarily located in San Francisco and the leader of ACME is called "The Chief". Carmen Sandiego was a brilliant agent for the ACME Detective Agency until she left and formed the Villains' International League of Evil (V.I.L.E.).
Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego? may refer to the following: Carmen Sandiego, a series of educational mystery video games, most of which have been titled Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego? Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego? (1985 video game), the first game in the series; Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?
The goal of the game is to track down Carmen Sandiego's villains around the world, arrest them and later capture Carmen herself. The player begins the game by first going to the country where the crime took place and then obtaining hints from various sources on where the thief went next, leading to a chase around the world to find the thief before time runs out.
Instead, the game seems to be based on the structure of the newest version of Where in Time is Carmen Sandiego?, which The Learning Company retitled Carmen Sandiego's Great Chase Through Time. The game was released onto Steam in August 2020, the first CD-ROM era Carmen Sandiego game to be readily available on modern hardware. [10]