I spent a good chunk of my younger days chasing one single woman. I wanted her, bad, but always seemed a step or two behind her. For years I chased her from city to city, jet hopping around the world, and at some point even through time. I thought I finally outgrew the chase, but suddenly out of nowhere she showed back up on Facebook, and like that the chase is back on. I'm coming for you, Carmen Sandiego!
Carmen Sandiego is back and she's on Facebook. Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego? brings the globe trotting villainess to the world's biggest social network, and based on our early time spent with the game it looks like it was a trip well worth it.
The Oregon Trail is brutal. When it's not subjecting you to the ills of dysentery and incurable snake bites, it's plaguing you with bugs and forcing you to spend lots of virtual currency. It's very much the same game that swallowed many hours of free time back in the 1980s, but it loses some of its addictiveness in the transition to Facebook. There's more than enough cholera to go around, but a host of bugs and an over reliance on cash items leave this new incarnation broke down by the trail.