World (1996)

Suspects

The 1996 V.I.L.E. gang: thirty-nine crooks and CarmenForty pun-named suspects with no dossiers behind them, plus a cat and two janitors working Carmen's side of the street.

Factions

The ACME Good Guides and the Chief on videoSeven specialists, one videophone and the first live-action Chief in the software: ACME's side of the 1996 game.

Mechanics

Casework on the Babel-Link TranslatorHow a case runs in the 1996 game: painted panoramas, paper scraps, a battery meter instead of a clock, and an arrest made in a crowd.

Versions

Where in the World v3.0 (1996) and the 1998 v3.5Brøderbund's third take on its flagship game, shipped for Windows and Macintosh in August 1996 and revised as v3.5 two years later.

History

Making v3.0: production, launch and receptionHow Brøderbund rebuilt its flagship around painted panoramas and video, and what the press and the sales charts made of it.