marshall@wind55.seri.gov (Marshall L. Buhl) (11/27/90)
fwb@pollux.siemens.com (Fred Brehm) writes: >So, two questions: > Are any of the Carmen Sandiego games appropriate for 7 or 4 > year olds? Definitely not for four years olds. You have to be able to read and there are a lot of big words and foreign names (at least in "Where in the World..."). One of my neighbors has an 8 year old and when he was 7, I had to read the text for him. He hasn't played it since turning 8, but I think he would still have trouble. Even his 10 year old sister has trouble with some of the words. I personally think this game is more for 10+ kids. The 7 year old did enjoy it, but needed help. He'd cry whenever he'd see how far ahead his sister was in cases solved. The game displays a tally of cases at the end of each case. You also need to read an Almanac while playing "Where in the World..." > Is there any significant difference between the Mac and IBM PC > versions (I have a Mac, my sister has a PC)? I haven't seen the Mac version. I think there is a lso a Commodore version too. The PC version runs in CGA (Crummy Graphics Adaptor) mode. It's also copy protected, but a little hacking can fix that. :-( I *HATE* having to hunt for those distribution disks. >Thanks, Bitte schoen. >Fred >-- >Frederic W. Brehm Siemens Corporate Research Princeton, NJ >fwb@demon.siemens.com -or- ...!princeton!siemens!demon!fwb -- Marshall L. Buhl, Jr. EMAIL: marshall@seri.gov Senior Computer Missionary VOICE: (303)231-1014 Wind Research Branch 1617 Cole Blvd., Golden, CO 80401-3393 Solar Energy Research Institute Solar - safe energy for a healthy future
rashid@magnus.ircc.ohio-state.edu (Robert G Rashid) (11/27/90)
I have used the PC version of Where in the World... with both my kids. The younger (then aged 7 loved the graphics (primitive hercules on PC) and sound effects. He also liked looking up the flags in the almanac. However, he required a fair amount of supervision to wade through the almanac for necessary information to get the correct destinations. His sister (age 11) was a good help frequently. I noticed that this year, my son and friends (all now age 9) have been using the program unsupervised, with great success. It is also available in their fourth grade classroom, but the teacher states that not all kids know how (or want) to look things up. We hope to get the Europe and time versions of Carmen, and will probably keep at least one on the PC to justify it's existence. -- Bob Rashid College of Dentistry Ohio State University