The twenty villains of the Deluxe Edition

The Deluxe Edition manual is explicit about the scale-up: “There are twenty suspects for the crime.” Its rogues’ gallery, titled “V.I.L.E. Watch: A Gallery of Villains” and credited in-story to informant “Anna Ijo,” is accessed on screen through the Dataminder’s DOSSIER button, which cycles through the full list and lets the player click a name to see a picture and modus operandi. The manual itself is designed as a mock magazine — “Volume One, Number One,” with Brøderbund co-founder Doug Carlston credited as its in-story “Editor in Chief” — and the villain gallery is presented as one of its feature articles, sitting alongside pieces on the Videophone and Dataminder gadgetry and a photo essay on the game’s National Geographic imagery.

Nine familiar faces

Nine of the twenty are holdovers from the 1985 original, their dossiers carried over essentially unchanged: Nick Brunch, Fast Eddie B., Len “Red” Bulk, Dazzle Annie Nonker, Lady Agatha Wayland, Scar Graynolt, Merey LaRoc, Ihor Ihorovitch and Katherine “Boom-Boom” Drib.

Ten new recruits

• Yul B. Sorry — “The Messenger,” who runs Carmen’s communiques by motorcycle and moonlights delivering singing telegrams.
• Robin Banks — a former radio evangelist turned helicopter-based house-plant duster, pulled into the gang by Merey LaRoc for his reputed “ace” piloting skills — undercut by a severe near-sightedness that has him crashing into bridges, buildings and cliffs.
• Rosa Sarrosas-Arroz — heir to a Peruvian bubblegum fortune who runs Lima’s most exclusive flower shop and joined the gang during the 1986 World Cup Croquet Matches.
• Sarah Nade — a Hawaiian punk singer with a glass-shattering voice. See her full dossier.
• Sam O’Nella — runs a Venice sandwich booth that fronts a crooked shell game.
• Bjorn Toulouse — a Stockholm engraver turned counterfeiter, first arrested for forging the U.S. five-dollar bill.
• Irma Dillow — a zoologist and self-styled animal liberator who once freed 5,000 Texas cattle in a midnight raid.
• Li Non Mee — heir to a Cambodian cosmetics fortune who operates a dog-obedience school called Doggie Do.
• Bessie Mae Mucho — a disgraced television science personality once known as “Madame Science,” exposed as part of a plutonium-smuggling ring.
• Sandy Dunes — the petty thief who, per his dossier, stole the cash in the traveler’s-check commercials; afraid of heights despite riding a skateboard.

Carmen tops the list

As in every game, Carmen Sandiego herself is the twentieth and final name, described in her Deluxe dossier as an agent, double agent, triple agent and quadruple agent for so many countries that “even she has forgotten which one she is working for.”