History VideoGame / WhereInEuropeIsCarmenSandiego

* FailedFutureForecast: As noted above, this game was hit hard by the unexpected fall of the UsefulNotes/IronCurtain. You may get clues mentioning that the next country has a communist government, is a member of the UsefulNotes/WarsawPact, etc. And not only is the Soviet Union a featured location, it's represented by Leningrad, which is now UsefulNotes/SaintPetersburg again. There are also many clues based on the European currencies that were used before the introduction of the euro.

* CopyProtection: Horrible, horrible copy protection. Arguably some of the most frustrating of all time. You can play all you want, but to get promoted and even have a chance to capture Carmen, you have to enter certain words from certain pages of the included travel guides every few cases. At least with ''World'', the reference was an Almanac; most of the information in one of those can now be found on {{Wiki/Wikipedia}}. ''Europe'' used an atlas and asked questions about what color country X on page Y was. Have fun guessing!

* UpdatedRerelease: As with ''World'' and ''U.S.A.'', ''Europe'' got an "enhanced" version in 1990. In addition to the usual updates, it removed East {{UsefulNotes/Berlin}} as a possible location, since the UsefulNotes/BerlinWall had come down by that point. While {{UsefulNotes/Munich}} represented UsefulNotes/WestGermany in the 1988 version, the 1990 version promotes the Bavarian capital to representing the new united {{UsefulNotes/Germany}}... maybe. The 1990 version does still contain occasional references to "West Germany" and "East Germany." Maybe Brøderbund forgot to take those out or maybe they were just hedging their bets over the likelihood of imminent German reunification.

* UpdatedRerelease: As with ''World'' and ''U.S.A.'', ''Europe'' got an "enhanced" version in 1990. In addition to the usual updates, it removed East {{UsefulNotes/Berlin}} as a possible location, since the UsefulNotes/BerlinWall had come down by that point. While {{UsefulNotes/Munich}} represented UsefulNotes/WestGermany in the 1988 version, the 1990 version promotes it to representing the new united {{UsefulNotes/Germany}}... maybe. The 1990 version does still contain occasional references to "West Germany" and "East Germany." Maybe Brøderbund forgot to take those out or maybe they were just hedging their bets over whether German reunification would soon occur.

* UpdatedRerelease: As with ''World'' and ''U.S.A.'', ''Europe'' got an "enhanced" version in 1990. In addition to the usual updates, it removed East {{UsefulNotes/Berlin}} as a possible location, since the UsefulNotes/BerlinWall had come down by that point. However, the 1990 version still contains occasional references to "West Germany" and "East Germany," so technically, East Germany is still in the game, and it just can't be visited. Perhaps Brøderbund figured that German reunification was in the cards but didn't want to jump the gun.

* UpdatedRerelease: As with ''World'' and ''U.S.A.'', ''Europe'' got an "enhanced" version in 1990. In addition to the usual updates, it removed East {{UsefulNotes/Berlin}} as a possible location, since the UsefulNotes/BerlinWall had come down by that point. However, the 1990 version still contains references to "West Germany" and "East Germany," so technically, East Germany is still in the game, and it just can't be visited. Perhaps Brøderbund figured that German reunification was in the cards but didn't want to jump the gun.

The game came out in 1988, which is really, really bad timing for a game based on European geography. Sure enough, the UsefulNotes/HoleInFlag revolutions took place just a year later, rendering the game dated. The 1990 re-release tried to correct for this by removing UsefulNotes/EastGermany as a location, but the changes only accelerated after that. The next few years saw the dissolutions of the UsefulNotes/SovietUnion, Czechoslovakia, and {{UsefulNotes/Yugoslavia}}, all of which are obviously featured in the game. Moreover, the euro was introduced in the late '90s, making the game dated whenever it uses the name of a European currency as a clue.

* UpdatedRerelease: As with ''World'' and ''U.S.A.'', ''Europe'' got an "enhanced" version in 1990. In addition to the usual updates, it removed East {{UsefulNotes/Berlin}} as a possible location, since the UsefulNotes/BerlinWall had come down by that point. However, the 1990 version still contains references to "West Germany" and "East Germany," so it's just that East Germany can no longer be visited. Perhaps Brøderbund figured that German reunification was in the cards but didn't want to jump the gun.

* ItsASmallWorldAfterAll: As usual for this series, the game treats entire countries as a single location. For example, an item stolen "from" Belgrade is the Begova Mosque, which is actually in Sarajevo. Nowadays, Belgrade and Sarajevo aren't even in the same country anymore!

* IntangibleTheft: The item stolen from {{UsefulNotes/Belgium}} is "the keys to the Common Market." The Common Market is another name for the European Economic Community, which was the predecessor to UsefulNotes/TheEuropeanUnion. The item stolen from the UsefulNotes/UnitedKingdom is the prime meridian.
* ItsASmallWorldAfterAll: As usual for this series, the game treats entire countries as a single location. For example, the item stolen "from" Belgrade is the Begova Mosque, which is actually in Sarajevo. Nowadays, Belgrade and Sarajevo aren't even in the same country anymore!

The game came out in 1988, which is really, really not the time to be making a game based on European geography. Sure enough, the UsefulNotes/HoleInFlag revolutions took place just a year later, rendering the game dated. The 1990 re-release tried to correct for this by removing UsefulNotes/EastGermany as a location, but the changes only accelerated after that. The next few years saw the dissolutions of the UsefulNotes/SovietUnion, Czechoslovakia, and {{UsefulNotes/Yugoslavia}}, all of which are obviously featured in the game. Moreover, the euro was introduced in the late '90s, making the game dated whenever it uses the name of a European currency as a clue.