Game Classification

Carmen Sandiego: Junior Detective Edition Brøderbund Software (U.S.A.), Brøderbund Software (U.S.A.), 1995  

Informations Analyses Serious Gaming
 

Classification

RETRO SERIOUS GAME
(Newsgame)

Keywords

Adventure - Detective - Educational - Geography - History - Math - Mystery - Sociology

Purpose

Besides play, this title features the following intents:
  • Educative message broadcasting
  • Informative message broadcasting

Market

This title is used by the following domains:
  • Entertainment
  • Education
  • Humanitarian & Caritative

Audience

This title targets the following audience:
 Age : 12 to 16 years old / 17 to 25 years old / 8 to 11 years old
General Public

Gameplay

The gameplay of this title is Game-based
(designed with stated goals)

The core of gameplay is defined by the rules below:
AVOID : explanation of this brick MATCH : explanation of this brick MOVE : explanation of this brick SELECT : explanation of this brick
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Carmen Sandiego: Junior Detective Edition Carmen is up to her old tricks again but now there's some young blood at ACME.

This Carmen Sandiego game, designed for children ages five to eight, builds knowledge of maps and countries, along with memory and matching skills.

Clues are discovered in various areas by moving the mouse over a random hotspot and clicking to reveal a clue. Each time you successfully follow a criminal you receive part a photograph that reveals part of their features, Collect all pieces and go in and capture the villain.

A helpful robot assistant is always filled with facts about the visited countries and their inhabitants. [source:mobygames]

Distribution : Retail - Commercial
Platform(s) : PC (Windows)

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