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Electronic Arts, a leading producer of games for personal computers and video- game machines, announced it will acquire Broderbund Software in a $400 million stock swap. Broderbund, specializing in educational software, made its name with the phenomenally popular Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego...
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LIVING Who is Carmen Sandiego, and why do kids love...
What in the world is Carmen Sandiego? Answer: one of the hottest and most successful new tools in the childhood-learning market today. What began six years ago as a mystery-style computer program designed to coax youngsters into using reference books has blossomed into a public television game show, a best-selling set of computer video games, a series of adventure books and a collection of jigsaw puzzles, all popular with kids age eight and up. "It's addictive," says Jonathan Pray, 13, an eighth-grade student in Golden, Colo., who has been prodded by Carmen into memorizing...
...Broderbund, Gary Carlston, had the original brainstorm; software writers then wove geographical and historical facts into the clues. The program eventually grew into five different Carmen titles, selling 2 million copies. In September Golden Books began publishing a line of adventure books, including Where in Time Is Carmen Sandiego? and Where in Europe Is Carmen Sandiego? This fall the half-hour Carmen TV series debuted nationally...