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It was the first in Mattel Media's planned series of storybooks for girls. [2] The game was designed to teach children early reading and decision-making skills. [3] The first Barbie CD-ROM for both Macintosh and Windows, [4] it was executive produced by Mattel Girls' software development director Nancie Martin. [5]
Barbie: Explorer is a Microsoft Windows and PlayStation game featuring Barbie. It was developed by Runecraft , published by Vivendi Universal Interactive Publishing and was released in 2001. Plot
Barbie tells the following story to her little sister, Kelly, who is insecure about her painting abilities. Rapunzel is a young woman with long, floor-length hair who lives as a servant to the wicked witch Gothel, who claims she saved Rapunzel from abandonment as a baby. She resents Rapunzel's hobby of painting pictures and demands Rapunzel spend all her time maintaining and cleaning the manor ...
Table of Barbie-related video games, 2001–2005 Title [1] Release date Platform(s) Publisher Developer(s) Barbie: Pet Rescue: 2001 Game Boy Color Vivendi Universal Games HotGen Studios Barbie Team Gymnastics: 2001 Windows Blue Planet Software Secret Agent Barbie: 2001 Windows Gigawatt Studios Barbie Explorer: September 4, 2001 (NA) PlayStation ...
The company's first releases came out in the Fall of 1996, with the company's Barbie Fashion Designer program was the first commercially successful video game made for girls. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] With the success of their first wave of products, Mattel Media then set on producing CD-ROM based interactive material for toys such as the Talk with Me!
Entertainment Weekly felt the game was "underwhelming". [4] The New York Times thought the game's mentions of Barbie's marine biology degree was a "nod toward enlightenment" for the girl's game genre, [5] while From Barbie to Mortal Kombat: Gender and Computer Games thought the game saw the series branching out from the "true pink fluff" exemplified in titles like Barbie Fashion Designer. [6]
Rapunzel! Rapunzel! Let down your hair That I may climb thy golden stair! [e] Whenever Rapunzel hears that rhyme, [f] she fastens her long braided hair to a hook in the window before letting it fall twenty yards to the ground, and the sorceress climbs up it. A few years later, a prince rides through the forest and hears Rapunzel singing from ...
In 1987, Mattel produced two television specials with DIC Animation City and Saban Productions; Barbie and the Rockers: Out of This World and its sequel Barbie and the Sensations: Rockin' Back to Earth, both featuring Barbie as the leader of a rock band (often seen as being Mattel's answer to rival fashion doll Jem from Hasbro); Mattel had previously avoided media projects for Barbie “for ...