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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 ...
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]
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This game was planned to be part of the Sega Club collection; it is designed for younger female gamers. On most of her trips, she travels with her best friend Midge Hadley, who the second player controls in two-player games. [2] Paul Tonge composed the music for the Super NES version. [6]
In the United States, Barbie Riding Club took #1 on PC Data's computer game sales rankings in its opening week. [1] It debuted on the monthly charts in second place for November 1998, [4] a position it held in December. [5] By the end of the year, its sales in the United States had totaled 288,381 units, for revenues of $9 million.
Barbie Fashion Designer was the ninth best-selling PC game of 1996 in the United States, with 393,575 CD-ROM units sold [5] and $14,044,994 sales revenue. [6] Barbie Fashion Designer went on to sell over 500,000 copies in its first two months of release and over 600,000 within the first year of its release, outselling other popular games at the time such as Quake and Doom.
Barbie was designed by Hi Tech Expressions in an attempt to get more girls to play video games, [7] [13] [14] although the developers tried to make the gameplay appealing to boys as well. [15] Following the 1984 release of an earlier title also called simply Barbie , the game became the second in the Barbie series.
Reviewing the game for Run Magazine, Marilyn Annucci gave it a score of C (the middle of 5 possible scores, which the magazine describes as "Good"), complimenting its detailed graphics and "unusually realistic sound", she was highly critical of the programs "many sexist elements" including how much of the game was built around playing to the whims of Ken.