Carmen Isabela Sandiego is a fictional character featured in a long-running series of educational games and television shows in the United States and Canada. As a criminal mastermind and villain, Sandiego was an integral part of the series, which originally focused on teaching geography and history (though the series later branched out into mathematics and English). The character later appeared in a series of books and on many other licensed products. She is typically depicted wearing a red fedora hat and trench coat.

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Carmen Sandiego was originally conceived in 1983 by ex-Disney artist Gene Portwood, Mark Iscaro, Ed Guarnieri, Dane Bingham, and Lauren Elliott at Brøderbund Software. The concept for the product evolved from a game the Carlstons (founders of Brøderbund) played as kids, using the world almanac and maps to play quiz games. To inspire kids to learn geography, the creators wanted a female "heroine" whose name sounded exotic but was unmistakably simple to pronounce. The name "Carmen Sandiego" is somewhat of a play on Indiana Jones. The first software game, "Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?," was released in 1985 for the Apple II computer and subsequently ported to other systems. This game was followed by "Where in the USA?", "Where in Europe?" and "Where in the World...Jr. Detective Edition," all geography-based games. "Where in Time"/"Great Chase through Time" and "Where in America's Past" were the history-based games, "Word Detective" was the English-based game, "Math Detective" was the mathematics-based game, and "Where in Space is Carmen Sandiego?" was the space/astronomy-based game.

The first seven games were each awarded one or more SPA Excellence in Software Awards, particularly for their educational effort.

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