What is Carmen Sandiego's ThinkQuick Challenge?

The elusive Carmen Sandiego is back in ThinkQuick Challenge, the latest in the venerable children’s software series from The Learning Company. Contrary to expectations, ThinkQuick Challenge, for kids ages 8 to 12, is a mediocre program full of less-than-impressive features and grating sound bites.

The goal of the game is to traverse the world, outsmarting Carmen and her band of accomplices. In an international hot spot of your choosing, you play a quick game, then face Carmen’s band of KnowBot robots. You defeat them by answering questions in two subjects from a selection including arts, history math, and English. When you answer six to ten questions correctly, you gain access to the villain’s hideaway where you must crack a code in order to capture the thief.

Sound fun? It is — for about an hour. It’s easy to get sick of the same games and repetitive “hip” dialogue. Even worse, questions you already answered correctly can resurface in the course of a game, and villains you already caught free themselves inexplicably and turn up again.

ThinkQuick does add some spice with multiplayer games, three levels of difficulty, and entertaining graphics but overall, this is one Carmen Sandiego product you may want to elude.

Lu, Cathy. (January 2000). Carmen Sandiego's ThinkQuick Challenge. MacAddict. (pg. 65).

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Architecture

IBM PowerPC

System Requirements

From Mac OS 7.5

Compatibility notes

Emulating this? It could probably run under: SheepShaver