# Where on Google Earth is Carmen Sandiego? **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [March 14, 2019, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-on-google-earth-is-carmen-sandiego/831112 "2019-03-14T04:23:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2019, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-on-google-earth-is-carmen-sandiego/831112/1 "2019-03-14T04:23:51Z")
If you’re nostalgic for the early '90s, this reproduces the crude look of computer game graphics circa 1991. The actress Lynne Thigpen is dead, so they showed Chief as a glowing ghost à la Obi-Wan Kenobi. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2019, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-on-google-earth-is-carmen-sandiego/831112/2 "2019-03-14T16:50:38Z")
Link? ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2019, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-on-google-earth-is-carmen-sandiego/831112/3 "2019-03-14T16:59:16Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > Link? Go to [google.com/earth](https://www.google.com/earth/). There’s a button on the page. ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_T-Cups](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@Sir\_T-Cups](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_T-Cups)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2019, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-on-google-earth-is-carmen-sandiego/831112/4 "2019-03-14T18:13:54Z")
I played yesterday, but only once. Do they have multiple levels? ---
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2019, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-on-google-earth-is-carmen-sandiego/831112/5 "2019-03-14T21:19:17Z")
I only played once also. I didn’t see any hint of other levels. It was so easy I could do it in my sleep in under 5 minutes. I took note of it more for the stylistics than the intellectual content. \<– geography geek > [@TriPolar](#): > > Go to [google.com/earth](https://www.google.com/earth/). There’s a button on the page. Thanks; I was going to add a link, but it stuck a string of extra characters onto the URL as long as your arm, and I would have preferred to share just the simplest possible URL 'cause I don’t know what all the other stuff is for, probably generated specially for me. ---
**Author:** ![Hoopy\_Frood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hoopy_frood/32/8452_2.png) [@Hoopy\_Frood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hoopy_Frood)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2019, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-on-google-earth-is-carmen-sandiego/831112/6 "2019-03-14T21:26:48Z")
> [@Johanna](#): > > If you’re nostalgic for the early '90s, this reproduces the crude look of computer game graphics circa 1991. The actress Lynne Thigpen is dead, so they showed Chief as a glowing ghost à la Obi-Wan Kenobi. This is not a reference to the children’s game show but a reference to the the Netflix cartoon (which was no doubt influenced by the game show). In it, Carmen is a good guy working to take down the evil organization that raised her from an orphan. But the authorities don’t realize she’s on the same side (though, she is a vigilante). > **[Watch Carmen Sandiego | Netflix Official Site](https://www.netflix.com/title/80167821)** > > A master thief who uses her skills for good, Carmen Sandiego travels the world foiling V.I.L.E.'s evil plans -- with help from her savvy sidekicks. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2019, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-on-google-earth-is-carmen-sandiego/831112/7 "2019-03-14T22:19:37Z")
I would have thought it’d be a reference to the 1980s computer game that inspired both the game show and the Netflix cartoon. ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2019, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-on-google-earth-is-carmen-sandiego/831112/8 "2019-03-14T22:47:51Z")
Cool–I might do this with my students. They’d not know most of the references, but it’d be a great opportunity to do some online research! ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2019, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-on-google-earth-is-carmen-sandiego/831112/9 "2019-03-14T23:22:02Z")
Huh, apparently Firefox doesn’t support Google Earth. That surprises me: Both Google and Firefox are generally standards-compliant enough that I wouldn’t have expected a problem. ---
**Author:** ![leahcim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b4bc9f/32.png) [@leahcim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leahcim)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2019, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-on-google-earth-is-carmen-sandiego/831112/10 "2019-03-14T23:52:42Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > I would have thought it’d be a reference to the 1980s computer game that inspired both the game show and the Netflix cartoon. Certainly the character designs are taken from the Netflix Cartoon. ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2019, 6:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-on-google-earth-is-carmen-sandiego/831112/11 "2019-03-15T06:07:12Z")
at least it wasn’t that awful fox produced cartoon in the 90s … since I only played the original games at school did you ever get to Carmen? like she was the last person to catch? ---
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2019, 10:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-on-google-earth-is-carmen-sandiego/831112/12 "2019-03-15T10:01:47Z")
Was Chief always a glowing, hovering spirit? Or is that a 2019 adaptation? In reference to Lynne Thigpen’s death some years ago? ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2019, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-on-google-earth-is-carmen-sandiego/831112/13 "2019-03-15T13:26:41Z")
In the original game, yes, Carmen was always the last person to catch. With the result that you didn’t even bother looking for clues to the thief’s identity: you just went straight to Interpol on the last mission and put in her description to get a warrant, and then hopped on a plane as soon as you got a destination clue in each city. ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2019, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-on-google-earth-is-carmen-sandiego/831112/14 "2019-03-15T13:48:55Z")
> [@Johanna](#): > > Was Chief always a glowing, hovering spirit? Or is that a 2019 adaptation? In reference to Lynne Thigpen’s death some years ago? It’s a 2019 adaptation. I haven’t finished the show but I’m pretty sure the Chief isn’t dead, she’s just in a secure location and communicates with her agents via hologram. Because technology and cool. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2019, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-on-google-earth-is-carmen-sandiego/831112/15 "2019-03-15T16:24:41Z")
Today’s kids expect holograms.