Where in North Dakota Is Carmen Sandiego?
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Cover art of the box provided in retail copies
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| Developer(s) | North Dakota Database Committee Broderbund |
| Publisher(s) | Broderbund |
| Director(s) | Craig Nansen |
| Designer(s) | Gene Portwood Lauren Elliott |
| Programmer(s) | Ken Bull |
| Writer(s) | North Dakota Database Committee |
| Composer(s) | Louis Ewens |
| Series | Carmen Sandiego |
| Engine | Apple DOS 3.3 |
| Platform(s) | Apple II |
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| Genre(s) | Educational |
| Mode(s) | Single-player |
Where in North Dakota Is Carmen Sandiego? is a 1989 edutainment video game that forms part of the Carmen Sandiego series, and was developed by Broderbund and the North Dakota Database Committee for the Apple II. It is the only game in the series based on a U.S. state, and was patterned after the previous games in the then-four year old series. Intended as a form of "pilot program" to test whether region-specific versions for the remaining 49 states were financially viable, the game was released in celebration of North Dakota's centennial celebration, and was aimed at schools to help teach children about the state's history and geography. Although 5,000 school copies were sold to schools in the region, the game has become extremely rare and only three retail copies are known to exist.
Where in North Dakota Is Carmen Sandiego? constitutes the fourth game in the Carmen Sandiego video game series (which includes World, U.S.A., and Europe). In contrast to these previous titles which were developed internally, North was instead largely developed by a team of fourteen educators led by computer coordinator Craig Nansen, concept designer Bonny Berryman, and co-chairwoman Mary Littler collectively known as the North Dakota Database Committee of the Minot Public Schools, who made the game idea a reality Having observed the popularity of the Carmen Sandiego franchise in the education of school children, the educators were inspired to develop a North Dakota version to teach North Dakotans about their state's history and geography.
In 2017, video game archivist The Video Game History Foundation referred to the game as "once the stuff of urban legends and " that had been proven to be genuine.
Where in North Dakota is Carmen Sandiego? is a first-person history and geography-based edutainment game for the Apple II platform. The interface of Where in North Dakota... is similar to the other games in the series, and it is "instantly recognizable as a Carmen Sandiego game". Two design changes were made for this specific game, "criminals" are instead called "imposters" and "crimes" are called "pranks" and travel between locations was done in a four wheel drive vehicles instead of an airplane. Where in North Dakota includes 38 locations in the state, 50 famous people connected to North Dakota, 16 pun-named gang members, and over 1,000 factual clues.
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