The game is based on the Carmen Sandiego series and features Cole Gannon along with Jules Argent, Shadow Hawkins and the Chief of Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego? Treasures of Knowledge.
In the videogames industry, apart from art directing console games (Teen Titans, Monster House, Indiana Jones and the Staff of Kings), he designed some of the newer characters of the Carmen Sandiego franchise, such as Cole Gannon and the V.I.L.E. Bots for the videogame Carmen Sandiego: The Secret of the Stolen Drums.
Carmen | Carmen Electra | Carmen Miranda | Playa del Carmen | Carmen Consoli | Carmen (opera) | Carmen McRae | Carmen Jones | Carmen Basilio | El Carmen | Carmen Fanzone | Carmen Trutanich | Carmen Sandiego | Carmen Reinhart | Marie Carmen | Carmen Vincelj | Carmen Martín Gaite | Carmen Chaplin | Carmen Cervera | Carmen Amaya | Carmen Agra Deedy | María del Carmen Martínez-Bordiú y Franco | Carmen Suleiman | Carmen Soo | Carmen Sandiego (character) | Carmen Rosales | Carmen Reece | Carmen Provenzano | Carmen Ordóñez | Carmen Marton |
Hopkins also explores the roles of figures such as supermodels, magical girls, Carmen Sandiego, Britney Spears, Lara Croft, Xena, the Charlie's Angels (2000s), Sabrina Spellman, Mulan, and Buffy Summers.
The magazine was published at a time when Oregon Trail, Reader Rabbit, Carmen Sandiego, Print Shop, and other kid-friendly products were developed and published by entrepreneurial software firms specializing in original children's software.
These films also featured Lynne Thigpen as "The Chief" and Rita Moreno as Carmen Sandiego, reprising their roles from the TV shows and videos games of recent years.