I hate these “Sid Meier’s Rules” articles, because I love Covert Action. It was like Carmen Sandiego, but with awesome action games and puzzles instead of geography trivia. I’ll admit that I had a little trouble staying focused on the big picture when I was in 7th grade, but at the easier difficulties it didn’t really matter. You always got fed a clue that would lead you in the right direction.

When I play it now, as a grownup, I don’t have any trouble swapping between the action parts and the big picture parts.