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Where in Europe Is Carmen Sandiego? (Video Game)

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 Where in Europe Is Carmen Sandiego? (Video Game)
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 Where in Europe Is Carmen Sandiego? is the third installment in the Carmen Sandiego franchise by Brøderbund Software. It features the same format as its predecessors, just with the focus being on European geography this time.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })The game came out in 1988, which is really, really bad timing for a game based on European geography. Sure enough, the Hole in Flag revolutions took place just a year later, rendering the game dated. The 1990 re-release tried to correct for this by removing East Germany as a location, but the changes only accelerated after that. The next few years saw the dissolutions of the Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia, and Yugoslavia, all of which are obviously featured in the game. Moreover, the euro was introduced in the late '90s, making the game dated whenever it uses the name of a former European currency as a clue.Unlike the World and U.S.A. games, Where in Europe never received a remake.
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 Copy Protection: Horrible, horrible copy protection. Arguably some of the most frustrating of all time. You can play all you want, but to get promoted and even have a chance to capture Carmen, you have to enter certain words from certain pages of the included travel guides every few cases. At least with World, the reference was an Almanac; most of the information in one of those can now be found on Wikipedia. Europe used an atlas and asked questions about what color country X on page Y was. Have fun guessing!
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 Da Chief: Your boss, who is still treated as The Ghost at this point.
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 Failed Future Forecast: As noted above, this game was hit hard by the unexpected fall of the Iron Curtain. You may get clues mentioning that the next country has a communist government, is a member of the Warsaw Pact, etc. And not only is the Soviet Union a featured location, it's represented by Leningrad, which is now Saint Petersburg again. There are also many clues based on the European currencies that were used before the introduction of the euro.
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