All dork and no play

[j4]

This week's spamusement gets an obscurity rating of 8/10, "dorks only". Okay, so I'm a dork, because I instantly spotted the reference. But when I looked at the comments to see if everybody else had got it too, they were all talking about some modern game show, not, um, a computer game on the Apple ][ ...

Kids of today, eh.

... Morning!

Comments

[hoshuteki.livejournal.com]

It wasn't very obscure. I was just talking about Carmen the other day with a friend. Oh man, I spent too much time playing that game.

[j4.livejournal.com]

Aw, don't tell me it wasn't very obscure... I want to feel slightly smug for getting it!

[hoshuteki.livejournal.com]

OK, then. Let's feel smug together.

[bellinghman.livejournal.com]

There was a game show?

[j4.livejournal.com]

Apparently so... (http://www.tvtome.com/tvtome/servlet/ShowMainServlet/showid-1712/Where_in_the_World_is_Carmen_Sandiego/)

[caramel-betty.livejournal.com]

There was also a cartoon. I seem to remember that there was a Megadrive game of it, too, in the 90s.

[jiggery-pokery.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty sure you can claim the full smugons in that the cartoon pretty clearly refers to the game rather than the derived (though surprisingly good) game show.

[brrm.livejournal.com]

I remember Carmen Sandiego - it was in all the Mac mags etc. Never had a copy myself, though.