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@ThePastelCowgirl
Жыл бұрын
We had Barbie Storymaker, but I admit, it was SO confusing and difficult to use. None of my sisters or cousins could really figure it out so we hardly played it. But then my Grandma got Barbie Riding Club and I was OBSESSED! Oh gosh...the nostalgia. I wish there was a way I could play it now!
@meganheartswell
Жыл бұрын
Try searching the name and rom after it. You may need a rom software for it. My abandon ware is a good site that might have it. Some pc games run with out extra software.
@sagejungwirth4155
Жыл бұрын
Hey! I had the same experience with barbie storymaker! I remember just randomly clicking things to see what they could do just because that's all I could figure out how to do lol
@zandrasilver
Жыл бұрын
Barbie story maker was my favorite game 🥲
@hildevandijk2066
Жыл бұрын
Barbie Riding Club was the best!! I spend have my childhood playing that game
@WeatherInOrlando
Жыл бұрын
Let me tell you about the AWE I felt when I found the wild mare and foal in Riding Club
@aurafluff
Жыл бұрын
I feel like we're in a sort of golden age right now for games like this, with soft aesthetics, calming social gameplay with problem solving and adventure. The channel "Wholesome Games" is basically all about these, they do a yearly presentation of upcoming games called the "Wholesome Direct" that I really like.
@uncrnsprklfrts5720
Жыл бұрын
I live for the Wholesome Direct!!!
@aurafluff
Жыл бұрын
@@uncrnsprklfrts5720 me too! :)
@Kirakiracuremarine
Жыл бұрын
Okay but I love ur shirt
@harlequinade2709
Жыл бұрын
I remember playing Barbie in Rapunzel as a kid with my best friend at her family's PC, and later Barbie: Horse Adventure at the next door neighbor's house. Unfortunately after that I fell off Barbie and got into Nancy Drew and Style Savvy, which I still love to this day
@NataliasClips
Жыл бұрын
style savvy is great!!!
@pulchrare2
Жыл бұрын
Barbie as Rapunzel holds such a special place in my heart. I must have played through it hundreds of times as a kid.
@Mavismiddlefinger
Жыл бұрын
Barbie fashion designer was the first computer game I played! This is such a great topic!! Also omg yes style savvy is such an icon
@NataliasClips
Жыл бұрын
i love style savvy!!!
@nicholaslienandjaja1815
Жыл бұрын
How iconic is it? Well, one of the music from Style Savvy was featured in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate.
@NataliasClips
Жыл бұрын
@@nicholaslienandjaja1815 thats right! and it was the japanese ver and not the eng ver!
@ca_lcium
Жыл бұрын
I don't know why I'm so captivated by videos like this, I am a man who never got to play Barbie games! Most games in my household were bought for me, so all we had was basically ''boy'' games. I did enjoy playing dress up flash games with my sister, though. I think I want to give them a try 😁
@gayhorrorboy
Жыл бұрын
It’s so funny that ppl write off her interactive and their Nancy drew games… those things were so intense for me 😭
@ThePrincessUmbrella
10 ай бұрын
ME TOO
@maxaroni39
Жыл бұрын
Style Savvy! The first real game I played that actually put effort and care into making something girls would enjoy! I still love it to this day, and have played every entry, and even though I don't identify as a girl anymore, I adore typically "girly" games ^-^
@stupidass69420
Жыл бұрын
Omg same!!
@peepo068
Жыл бұрын
yes!!! ive only played style savvy 3 (style boutique 3 here in the uk!!) but its still suchhhhh a lovely and enjoyable experience and i have like 250 hours on it!!
@nicholaslienandjaja1815
4 ай бұрын
Also, one of the music from Style Savvy was featured in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate.
@bloodmoonbunny6837
Жыл бұрын
Mystery Cruise basically started a life long love of adventure games and visual novels I cannot thank it enough 😭
@whiffle
Жыл бұрын
I've recently (within the last couple of months or so) found myself hooked on your videos. I enjoy very much your fresh and open-minded perspective on a hobby that I've had my entire life. I'm an avid collector of dolls and cute things in general. But- I'm also a "gamer girl". One that is a good generation older than you've mentioned yourself in your videos, but a long-time enjoyer of all things button-mashy the same. My parents had an original Nintendo when I was young, and I grew up on Mario, Tetris, Jeopardy the game. They also owned several actual arcade machines, and my grandmother had an Atari I'd play at her house when I'd go visit. Despite that- being a female in a predominantly male-oriented market has always had it's many faces of sexism and generally unsavory stereotypes. As a female, I've had to "prove" myself time and time again that I'm capable of mashing buttons to manipulate a virtual world just as well as a male. This video is absolutely correct on many fronts. That females have been stigmatized. That often feminine games are made with significant less care and effort than ones meant for masculine markets. That the industry as we know it is currently within a movement to promote equality amongst gamers. Not just between genders and sexes, but also amidst races, creeds, disabilities, and interests. This video was so fun and refreshing to watch and I enjoyed it immensely! Thank you for creating it! [Congrats on your sponsor, by the way! You absolutely deserve it and I'm so so happy to see your channel being successful!]😍
@TBCaine
Жыл бұрын
yaaaas get that sponsorship!! and personally I think if we had more games that had horses with eyeshadow we’d have world peace
@mysticwalrusman1351
Жыл бұрын
I really miss girly games, rarely are feminine games released with praise and the ones that are usually not even for young girls, like Bayonetta or SNK heroines, I miss games like Cooking Mama or Style Savvy, I love that women can be gamers more comfortably now but this has kind off come at the expense of femininity in games when they should really be able to coexist.
@frantichrist
Жыл бұрын
I have suuuuch strong memories of playing the Barbie Princess and the Pauper CD Rom game as a little girl! Decorating the palace, making stain glass windows, embroidering tapestries... It was a simpler time :') I'm still very into video games now, especially RPGs like Red Dead Redemption 2 and Fallout New Vegas, and bright, colorful games like Splatoon.
@Man-wolf-
Жыл бұрын
“Theres some girl games that are just awful and lazy” Its okay you can say girls go games
@emmablack1230
Жыл бұрын
As an woman, I still play those games. I do look for better alternatives but there are not many. I'd love if fashion video games improved and became more of a genre that was taken seriously.
@kendalll1157
Жыл бұрын
I never played the 90s games because I wasn’t alive yet, lol. But this video still brought me back, Barbie beauty boutique was my SHIT as a kid!!! Matching all the clothes together was part of the reason I wanted to be a fashion designer when I was little haha. There’s still a 6 year old in my brain who gets sooo excited every time a game lets me customize my character
@calypsolemon9571
Жыл бұрын
the first barbie detective game is honestly noteable to me for being one of the first games i could feasably classify as horror under my belt. I'm not sure all of it was 100% on purpose by the developers, but there's certainly an uneasy atmosphere about wandering around the abandoned park at night, with the only other characters seemingly popping in and out of existence at random. I also really enjoyed barbie horse riding club as a kid, they somehow managed to make that pre-rendered looping track feel like an open world map with mysteries around every corner. BOTW whomst?
@kittymae335
Жыл бұрын
When I was 5ish I had the Barbie Sleeping Beauty game from the 90s and I was terrified by the spindle scene, which was apparently a common experience
@katherineperrin4817
Жыл бұрын
OH MY GOD I thought that was just me!
@yms4355
Жыл бұрын
I have never played it- can you describe the experience briefly? :D
@kittymae335
Жыл бұрын
@@yms4355 you can actually see a longplay of it on youtube if you look up ‘barbie sleeping beauty pc game’
@teddystark396
Жыл бұрын
I had a barbie 'laptop' (not actually a computer, it was only barbie games) with all sorts of educational games... I think it was part of the reason I could type and do more complex math before my peers in elementary lol. that was in the early-mid 2000s, but I can still remember certain games from it so clearly!
@kelseypeterson5172
Жыл бұрын
Oh yeah I have 2 of those barbie computers! I loved the one I got as a child and I played it quite a lot but it never came close to the amount of time I spent on one of the family pcs playing barbie cd rom games!
@emmablack1230
Жыл бұрын
I had that too! I totally forgot about it
@SnowshoeAviator
Жыл бұрын
I was in love with Barbie Pet Rescue (2000) and now I work as a veterinary technician! I don't really play video games a lot but sometimes I play animal crossing.
@idunnobutyay2520
Жыл бұрын
I unfortunately didn’t play Barbie video games as a kid, but now I wish I did.
@AllycatlovesAG
Жыл бұрын
I grew up on the barbie flash games (and polly pocket ones too). I was very girly as a kid so the makeover games and dress up ones were my favourite! Congrats on the sponsorship, and I admire all of the research put into this video!
@Haannaaahhh
Жыл бұрын
I ADORED Barbie Fashion Show too! Played it again recently for a nostalgia rush 🥰🥰
@imaginefun13
Жыл бұрын
I have always remembered I loved Barbie Riding Club, but Barbie story maker literally made me gasp. You seriously unlocked a memory for me!
@amilycaceres5702
Жыл бұрын
I played Barbie as rapunzel on my pc a lot as a kid and loved it so much! It was the closest thing to a video game my parents would get for me, really wish there were more games like it to play with growing up
@squirrelisamazing6522
Жыл бұрын
I can't believe no one has mentioned The Daring Game for Girls yet! That Wii game was my childhood. It was mostly made up by a bunch of outdoorsy mini games (scootering, cave exploring, etc.) but it did have reoccurring characters and an overarching plot. I wasn't much good at it (probably too young to understand instructions that weren't spelled out for me lol) but I loved running around collecting things
@aurafluff
Жыл бұрын
The daring book for girls was so formative for me as a child, I didn't know there was a game based on it though!
@squirrelisamazing6522
Жыл бұрын
@@aurafluff And I didn't know it was based on a book, how cool!
@sapphic.shortcake
Жыл бұрын
I absolutely ADORED Barbie Fashion Show: An Eye For Fashion growing up and I was devastated when the disc got stuck in a laptop and never came out. I played it for HOURS and it was such a huge part of my childhood honestly.
@aerendyll
Жыл бұрын
Barbie Fashion Designer was actually preceded by Barbie Fashion Design & Color for DOS! It was more of a dress-up/print studio hybrid than a deeply involved game as you could only really pick a setting (background), dress up barbie (some options only available for certain settings) and colour the result (either on paper by printing out what you put together or digitally in the software itself), but I'd argue it still somewhat counts.
@arianafox365
Жыл бұрын
I had ALL the Barbie games released in the 90s and mid 2000s. The fashion games, story maker, super sports, ocean discovery, hair salon… I LOVED detective Barbie OMG. I also had the super spy game. I loved video games as a little girl, these games were so iconic to my childhood. However, Nancy Drew, American Girl storyteller and dress designer, the first Sims generation, and rollar coaster tycoon were played just as much. It was such a good time for video games!! My mom used to have to unplug the power to the living room to get me to stop playing lol
@briannabaskerville88
Жыл бұрын
That barbie babysitting game took up so much of my attention in the past, I think I loved the colors and sound effects. I also had the barbie laptop that had a bunch of games loaded on it
@ThePrincessUmbrella
10 ай бұрын
I can still hear that baby giggle in my dreams
@hellbreakfast1590
Жыл бұрын
This was a really cool, informative video! I loved Barbie so much as a kid. I also like that you point out that just because fashion is encouraged for girls to like doesn't mean that it is bad, or that those girls who do love makeup and such should not be given good, quality work. Hell, I'm a grown-ass man, and I would foam at the mouth for an RPG game where you start as an indie fashion dev, and work your way up to prestige!
@sike7770
Жыл бұрын
This is actually really interesting now that I’m thinking about the difference in interests. Last summer I started a D&D game where I played the DM with a single friend (we didn’t know enough people who were free at the time). It was Lost Mines, but early on I found that my friend really didn’t like the combat portions of the game. I assumed it was because there isn’t really a team of people to play with, so for the next dungeon I focused most on puzzles, stealth, and mystery elements and we ended up having a lot more fun with it. I didn’t realize it until now that I essentially changed the experience into being an “adventure game” with an open world, combat only happening as a last resort. I think it might be true about how gender effects play styles, not just in video games but also in tabletop games.
@theplushfrog
Жыл бұрын
I think another video on the mobile market of "girlie" app games could be interesting. While many are just terrible games if not scams, there's also some pretty good very interesting games marketed towards women. Shining Nikki is a big one with it's center on fashion and outfit design. Puzzle games are huge as well, with too many to name, honestly. I have a number of aunts and female family members who are super into detective-style app games. I think the sheer amount of these games and their popularity was what ended up with that huge push back a few years ago against phone games as "not *real* games" and people who played on phones being "not real gamers" simply because the majority of these people were women and sexist gaming culture couldn't handle that. Of course, now that fortnite and other FPS games are on phones, suddenly gaming on your phone isn't as looked down upon. On another note, I'm sad that the "virtual pet" genre, that is also often marketed towards girls, is so dead right now. We had a very small revival with the popularity of furbies and tamagotchi coming back, but there still hasn't been a decent virtual pet game in ages--unless you count petting/feeding minigames inside of farming sims or pokemon games, which these are still very small and nothing like Nintendogs or old school Petz games (back when they were made by P.F. Magic and not just renamed cheap outsourced junk). It's a decent game and toy market, but currently no one seems willing to put in the effort to develop anything actually new, even the newest Tamagotchi color devices haven't changed their gameplay a huge amount in years.
@monsterhigh250
Жыл бұрын
As a very girly doll collector who works in tech, and worked for a large video game company for a year, this video was so so so interesting and strangely, moved me. To hear about the intersection of my personal interests and my fields of study and how Barbie worked to merge the two is so interesting, and I can't express how much I personally appreciate this video. Thank you so much for talking about feminism in the video game industry, I feel like this is a conversation that needs to be had much more often.
@tori_girlonline800
Жыл бұрын
Ocean Discovery was one of my FAVORITE games growing up! I played it over and over. What a blast from the past!
@Lemon_Lime_Lily
Жыл бұрын
The thumbnail is glorious lol. Barbie is the og gaslight , gatekeep, girlboss. Love ur videos
@marielsea2292
Жыл бұрын
I owe my love of Video Games to those old Barbie Games I had as a kid! Magic Hairstyler, Barbie Detective, Riding Club, etc. They still rank as some of my favorite games today!
@Em-os9yj
Жыл бұрын
I had barbie magic hairstyle and ocean discovery
@Donteatacowman
Жыл бұрын
Woah, I just saw Purple Moon and had a nostalgia wave. I need to look that up and see if the game I remember that is so vague I can barely describe it was made by them. (Also while I'm commenting... I bet that part of what added to that first game's success was how it was on a computer and not separate gaming hardware, making it more accessible to first-time/casual/less disposable income gamers.)
@anikam3526
Жыл бұрын
the way barbie frequently used imagery of horses with eyeshadow is so wild. why did i see that as a kid and just accept it
@TBCaine
Жыл бұрын
Barbie Fashion Show is a legend in my house… I played it so many times the disc became too scratched to play anymore 😭
@UDontTakeMeSeriously
Жыл бұрын
I find it refreshing just how many people were interested in those lost media videos about the Mean Girls and Clueless DS games. It proves people still have an interest in games about stereotypically "girly" subjects.
@writerspen010
3 ай бұрын
Omg I've never heard someone outside of the Nancy Drew fandom acknowledge the HeR Interactive games. I feel so seen
@c.ccarlhead5744
Жыл бұрын
Oh my god this took me back to how I spent hoursss trying to finish the platformer game for Barbie and the 12 Dancing Princesses. The way I RAGED at the little monkey who would come down to steal your gems if you weren't fast enough.
@magnafoxodyssey2127
Жыл бұрын
I spent so much time as a kid playing Detective Barbie and the Carnival Caper and the Barbie Super Sports game - at a time when I thoroughly rejected Barbie. I LOVED Carnival Caper (could be in part because of my love of amusement parks), I believe that they also could have multiple endings randomly generated each time? It was so cool. Super Sports was also a lot of fun even with some stiff controls at times. Super Sports, Carnival Caper and My Little Pony: Friendship Gardens were my "Trinity" of "Girl Games" at the time One thing I've wanted to mention is the cross gender appeal of Splatoon. Shooters as a whole have historically been a testosterone poisoned genre, with multiple ad campaigns built around "your mom will hate it" or just having a male focus even when the game is more cartoony (Like TF2 and Fortnite) Then a shooter like Splatoon comes along. A bright, silly, colourful game with sweet designs where the shooting is just games of paintball and you don't die but get temporarily incapacitated and the weapons are made out of water guns, paint rollers and umbrellas and where fashion is both a core game mechanic and lore aspect (Inkling culture places a high value on looking fashionable). Where a majority of the major characters in the game are girl characters and the Girl Inkling is always the most prominent, default character in the game. In a genre that's so typically coded masculine, it's nice to have a shooter that has a stronger focus on girls!
@LNBNE
Жыл бұрын
I really enjoyed this more then I thought I would! Not that I went into it thinking booo but learning about the history of Barbie video games was so interesting!! I'd love to watch more videos about other doll video games histories or any other "girly game franchises" too I reckon they would be sicccckkk otherwise thank you for the rad video like always ❤️❤️❤️
@cutegamesclub
Жыл бұрын
Highly recommend Ray Mona's channel, she covers lost girly video games and the investigations are lots of fun to watch.
@LNBNE
Жыл бұрын
@@cutegamesclub thank you so much sweet ray of sunshine!!! I'm gonna enjoy binging this 😍
@ThePrincessUmbrella
10 ай бұрын
THANK YOU for mentioning the Her Interactive Nancy Drew games!! I was obsessed with them and spent time on their forums in middle school, but they're very niche and I don't know anyone besides my sister and I who has played them.
@illrawb
Жыл бұрын
Holy cow im so late to this. But seeing the Barbie fashion designer trailer unlocked a childhood memory like in an earth quaking fashion. I have goosebumps
@mysticwalrusman1351
Жыл бұрын
My sister and I grew up on Barbie Dreamhouse Party and Barbie Puppy Rescue on our Wii U, they were kinda bad Ngl but they were fun. My personal favorite girly game series would be Cooking Mama, Hatsune Miku Project Diva, and Bayonetta
@lizmonsma6453
Жыл бұрын
me and my siblings would take turns trying to beat Barbie Explorer, it was definitely way harder than it should have been 😅 we did eventually beat it though! I also remember having a Barbie Princess and the Pauper game where you did things like find the cats and bake/decorate cakes, I also vaguely remember an ice skating game? Oregon Trail and Nancy Drew were also staples in our house though lol
@majesticflamingos
Жыл бұрын
As a child of the 90's I loved my Barbie games along with Purple Moon's Rockett series, ubisoft's Catz/Dogz/Babyz games, and later Her Interactive's Nancy Drew games. The Detective Barbie game was the first game my parents bought me when we got a computer. Great memories of all those games!
@Nyxie_Pyxie_Collectables
Жыл бұрын
I loved Barbie Fashion Show as a kid!! I used to play it obsessively along with Barbie: Pet Rescue (Gameboy: Color version), Secret Agent Barbie (PC) & Barbie: Beauty Boutique (PC). Those were some of my favorite memories from when I was a kid!!
@flatline-timer
Жыл бұрын
Last time I was this early I didn't miss Reel Drama Lagoona
@yolkcheeks
Жыл бұрын
I really enjoyed Barbie Fashion Designer and considering how popular home crafts have gotten I am really surprised they haven't brought it back- I still remember trying to make dresses out of regular paper because we'd run out of the special fabric paper. I also had the Super NES Barbie game but most of what I remember of that is the screen of Barbie resting with a hugs cast in her penthouse that you got if you got hit too many times in the side-scrolling portion and "died"
@animalcollectiveporn
Жыл бұрын
you talking about rdr makes me think of that barbie horse adventures and rdr2 edit on tumblr
@nagiuhti
Жыл бұрын
I grew up in Greece on an island. I have memories of me visiting my cousins house in the big city, they had a more modern computer with CD roms, and one of the games I played was Barbie fashion designer. I loved it. I remember my uncle being like "the shoe color should match the shirt color" - he wasn't 100% right, bit it was the first time I learnt some fashion basics like color coordination. I believe it was 1998-99. I was 9. They didn't have the fabric paper to actually print the clothes, but still it was fun. You brought me backk
@soda_jar
Жыл бұрын
I've played a lot of games in my childhood because my uncle introdued it to me and it took me a while to find out that there were Barbie and Bratz video games which blew my mind. I'd play Barbie games based on the movies such as 12 Dancing Princesses and Island Princess. With Bratz, it was Forever Diamonds I think and I liked that a lot more because it had a lot of fun interactions. I play a lot of fighting games along with JRPGs, but I do like to balance it out with casual games. I hope that there'll be a lot more fun doll games because it can sometimes make you feel more connected to them because of how much you've interacted in the game.
@moosiesama
Жыл бұрын
I used to play the Barbie rapunzel PC game for hours
@astoldbyneon43
Жыл бұрын
Loved this format of a mini video essay, would love to see more videos like this and the impact dolls have on other forms of media!
@pastel-sunrise
Жыл бұрын
When I was really young, we didn't have a lot of games, as we didn't have a lot of money, so I played some older DOS games that my dad managed to get to work on windows, and a whatever games he manged to download or get from others. The ones I played the most were lemmings, commander keen, word rescue and math rescue & a few I don't recall the title of. Later we also got Sim City and Sim City 2000 and Mario for pc. Also Yoda Stories, but I didn't play it quite that much. I also played a bunch of demos while dreaming about owning the full game. The best demo was Jazz Jackrabbit, which unlike other demos was fully functional just short, only about three or four levels, but my goodness we played that a lot. When I was 11 we got our first gaming system, a nintendo 64 to share and I played the heck out of pokemon stadium (and later pkmn Snap), and also occasionally star wars racing. For my 12th birthday the entire family got together and gifted me a game boy colour and pokemon yellow, I loved it. But we still played pc games and over the course of my tweens and early teens I finally mananged to get my hands on the full versions of those demos I so loved. (Except jazz jackrabbit, to my regret, and that 101 dalmations painting game.) The first was Sim Safari one of the best kids games ever made, I adored it and so did my brother. Then I finally got Dogz 4 (kzitem.info/news/bejne/o56ozautoGNnnIo&ab_channel=HamtaroTV which was basically just a pet simulator, it came out waaay before nintendogs, and was charming and fun), after years and years of dreaming about it. I loved that game. I also eventually got Theme Hospital, which I quite enjoyed as well. I never really got the option to play girly games, and later had no interrest, but there was one exception. My grandparents had a exceptionally girly game that I adored that they installed for me to play. I think it was called Magic Doll House? Anyway you opened up a virtual doll house and then clicked on the room you wanted to explore, which then came with mini games and posibly some customization? There was definately exploration and interaction. There was a little mascot that talked to you occasionally and congratulated you on clearing the tasks. But everything reset once you left the room, and there was never any progression, it did have a tendancy to feel like it was insulting my intellegence which is why I both loved and disliked it. I still played it a bunch but it definately had its flaws. Honorable mentions for games I played at school, and/or at other people's homes: Sim Farm, Bubble Bobble, Crash Bandicoot (playstation), Spyro (PS), Harvest Moon (PS), Pippi Longstocking, and DX Ball. Games that were too hard so I mostly watched other ppl play them: CD-man (basically pacman), Kings Quest, Digger, Diggers, and Tetris. (The latter I did eventually play quite a bit when I got older, but I was never that good at it. lol.) These days I have one PC game Stardew Valley, which is the one I play the most, and occasionally I'll play a game on my DS or Switch, mostly pokemon, but I've also got some others. Did you ever play on any other devices?
@julianpeppers1889
Жыл бұрын
i still love "casual games", story driven games, and dress up games. azalea dolls, dolldivine (rip rinmaru), picrew, meiker games, free platformers (rip flash...), dressupgames...
@practicepositiveprogress5396
Жыл бұрын
I had barbie Ocean Discovery and Detective Barbie 2 The Vacation Mystery. I remember basically nothing about ocean discovery, but the bits you showed are definitely familiar and nostalgic. In Detective Barbie, I remember several hidden item puzzles, as well as the bad guy riding away on a jet ski that I always sucked at. Edit: One other thing was that you could pick a name, but it included EVERY NAME to the point where it was annoying and I always picked an A or B name because I just couldn't deal with scrolling that far. Now these were both extremely hard in my memory, but I was probably maybe just too young because I was born basically WHEN they came out.
@maryf1454
Жыл бұрын
Barbie Jet Set Style was amazing and the soundtrack was *chef kiss. The soundtrack is full of bops that I sometimes listen to when I do my homework or pretend to do my homework and jam out to the music of my childhood.
@graaaaaaaaaaaaaaace
Жыл бұрын
OMG, I NEVER KNEW IT WAS CALLED BARBIE FASHION SHOW!! I played that game RELIGIOUSLY as a kid, I was obsessed with it and making outfits from the tropical themed outfit set!! Always these black dresses with the star cut out brush to make them look like the night sky, it's such a good memory for me :) this and the barbie spy game were the ones I played the most of.
@treacherous-doctor
Жыл бұрын
There is NOTHING that defined my childhood more than the Barbie DS and GBA games I had as a kid. Secret Agent Barbie: Royal Jewels Mission is ICONIC (even if I didn't know how to play when I was 5 LMAO)
@SebastianSeanCrow
Жыл бұрын
15:14 I am now convinced that Barbie movie maker, magic hairstyler, and fashion designer were all combined at one point cuz I’m looking at all this and it looks/sounds EXACTLY like the single Barbie PC game I had
@Lorandias
Жыл бұрын
Soooo glad you talked about Barbie Fashion show! It was also my favourite Barbie game and I couldn’t ever remember which one it was. I was obsessed with making everything that blue shimmery colour because of how funky it looked. Been loving your channel lately ❤
@kayb933
Жыл бұрын
Barbie Horse Adventures, the Princess & the Pauper game, Barbie Secret Agent...those were my favorite games of all time as a kid. And I'm still obsessed lol.
@keevr.3902
Жыл бұрын
i played Barbie Fashion Show as a kid! i honestly adored it to the point that ive hunted down a rom of it to play and relive all the memories. and the soundtrack? it's burned into my brain from all the hours i spent with it.
@jwlez2814
Жыл бұрын
HER INTERACTIVE OH MY GOD THE NOSTALGIA I JUST HAD ..... so sad that the company has gone to shart now :((
@emmablack1230
Жыл бұрын
I had some Barbie Wii games! They were awesome! I also had a really cool "girly" Disney Princess Wii adventure game. Feminine games definitely played a big role in my playing them at all. As a girl, I typically leaned to feminine things with the exception of when I worried of what people would think about me. Some women and girls made me feel like I had to be more tomboy than I was. I wanted the feminine things. Part of this is due to feeling more seen in the representation, I always favored non blonde girl characters over anyone else. The bigger reason though was because it aligned more with my interests. Play at my own speed, customization, and feminine aesthetics were what I wanted and still want. As for as the market today, I'd love more feminine games. It isn't because women and girls need a separate video game, it is because people who like femininity deserve their interests catered to as well. It would also make the gaming world more accessible to girls resonate more to femininity because girls like that still exist. These games don't have to be just for girls, anyone can play, they could also offer non female characters to play as.
@juliagalvao169
Жыл бұрын
i’m so happy that you got yourself a sponsor!!! you deserve it so much, love your content
@Zastrava
Жыл бұрын
I had Barbie Secret Agent for GameBoy Advance (well, one of my sisters did- I was raised and currently am masc presenting). My brother and 2 sisters played the hell out of it- our 3 most coveted games for GBA were Barbie Secret Agent, Super Mario Bros 3, and Mario & Luigi Superstar Saga. But I have tonnes of fond memories playing Barbie Secret Agent in the basement on rainy afternoons when we were supposed to be doing chores or homework but Grade 3 me didn't care. I have a tonne of respect for Barbie games when they're programmed well. And we often role played it with our Lego (I wasn't really allowed to touch actual Barbie dolls because boy). So yeah, Barbie had a big impact on my upbringing. By the time Barbie Fashion Show came out, my parents had gotten really strict with what we could do on our PC as they figured any game would give the computer a virus, but my sisters were allowed to play it. I watched from time to time because it was fun.
@princessravendiamond4288
Жыл бұрын
For PC, in my early years I had Cool Designs, Barbie as Sleeping Beauty, Barbie as Princess Bride, Team Gymnastics, Super Spy, Kelly Club, and Swan Lake. I played the first three I mentioned the most and distinctly having my brother help me with Super Spy 🤣 For GameBoy, I had Groovy Games, Princess and the Pauper, and Barbie Diaries. PatP was my favorite because it actually gave me a challenge at different parts
@qryptid
Жыл бұрын
Having not really played any of the barbie games I didn't relate at first but then you mentioned the babysitting flash game. THE FLASH GAMES. Clicking around on the barbie and neopets websites was my childhood. Looking at the number of beautiful soft games that are accepted now, I think it's wild to think not that long ago, games were either puzzle/arcade types like bubble poppers and tetris or FPS/fighter games. In some ways they've been neutralized more, i feel like the sparkly pretty stuff has been relegated to mobile games. So yeah have we really made progress or are we just back where we were....?
@maririntsw1517
Жыл бұрын
I think there is deffinetly a market for fashion games now days, there's a bunch of pretty popular fashion apps (like love nikki, helix waltz, cocoppa play, etc), I hope we can get more games like that in actual video game consoles
@ladybird4666
Жыл бұрын
I had a friend who had Barbie Fashion Designer. They made me watch them play and rarely let me play myself. My childhood best friend had the Purple Moon game Rockett’s New School. It was the first game I really connected with.
@spellinwaiting5290
Жыл бұрын
I played Barbie as Princess Bride over and over as a kid. Secret Agent too, but I always hit a point in the game where the missions were too hard to beat for me. Sometimes I'm tempted to try and redownload it, see if I can't get through it now as an adult. I also recall really enjoying a Barbie Diaries PC game. Good times.
@amyrose6992
Жыл бұрын
I had the second detective game but mine was broken so you couldn’t get past a certain area 😭 I also had a Barbie rapunzel game, the horse adventure one and one where you would swipe physical cards with outfits on them into your computer (that one was pretty cool I can’t lie). I looooved Barbie video games as a kid and I wish I could still play the detective ones
@aliceis9068
Жыл бұрын
my absolute FAVORITE Barbie PC game was Girl Gotta Groove--outfits, makeup, hairstyles, DANCE ROUTINES, & stage performance (and design, a little, if i'm remembering correctly?!)!!!! if i could find a version of it online *anywhere* i would literally pay money to play that game again LMAO. ofc, the pet rescue one was also a fave. not lying abt the skills required for those adventure games tho--Secret Agent Barbie's upper levels right to the boss fight were the absolute *bane* of my existence in early elementary school LMAO. i feel like i *only* won it years later when i was like, 9 or 10 or something, & finally had the frustration tolerance to finish the game XD
@idge_haq
Жыл бұрын
I loved Barbie Fashion Show soooo much! When I was a kid it went mysteriously missing and I still haven't found it 😔
@satousays
7 ай бұрын
My friends and I played so much Barbie Magic Hairstyler, including making all of the Sailor Scouts. 💕
@CheeseMakesMeWiggle
Жыл бұрын
Barbie Riding Club and Detective Barbie were freakin' JAM growing up! I also really liked Ocarina of Time and later on the Tomb Raider games growing up. I lobe adventure and seeing women (and Link lol) be adventurous was really inspiring.
@vikiwinter
Жыл бұрын
….I’m 26 and still playing fashion show, this game is a gem
@firefly5343
Жыл бұрын
I had Barbie Detective 1 and 2 for the pc a long time ago and I remembered loving to solve puzzles and playing as a detective which also gotten me into some CSI video games a bit later on in solving crimes. Feels very nostalgic looking back at it. Around the 2000’s, I have also gotten into the Sims as well and even Harvest Moon.
@creariaofficial
Жыл бұрын
Barbie Fashion Show (fr the 2000s) solos. I replayed so many times, it kinda gave me the inspiration for getting into art.
@jaimzag
Жыл бұрын
I still HAVE the Barbie vacation mystery game - I could never figure it out as a kid and then when I tried to play it again a year or so ago I actually managed to make some headway before it would just crash at a specific doorway 🤦♂ I also still have "Beauty Styler" which I've never actually tried to play again and don't remember much about. I do remember having osme other kind of hair/beauty styling game that was supposed to let you import digital photos of yourself to style but we couldn't get that feature to work 🤷♂ and I had what I think was a VERY early release (1994 I think when I looked it up) "Barbie's Magical House" which just sorta let you explore around a house and change decorations and stuff. and GOD the flash games are such a blast from the past, I spent so much of my life on the polly pocket, barbie, diva stars, whats her face sites, I loved them. Funny you should bring up the sims too because I often joke that I basically "play dress up with characters and mash them together like barbie dolls" 😂 I think I was lucky tho - my mum worked in IT and was already something of a gamer (and still is, more so than me, I'd say) so I had my own PC from a young age (getting my mum's old one when she upgraded) and grew up watching her play games and having quite a lot of my own; I never felt much in the way of barriers in the 90s when it came to computers and games as a "girl".
@threetimestables
Жыл бұрын
This video opened such a Pandora’s box of feelings for me and gave me the words to describe something I hadn’t been able to ever. Like, multiple paragraphs kind of unlocking. Definitely getting major hipster syndrome (read: feminist indignance) about the gameplay styles that massively appeal to me (RPG, customization, exploration, etc) being reduced to “girly games” in the west, only to now have a resurgence in games that I love (but did not have the language until this video to understand why I love) IE RDR2, the newer God of Wars, Disco Elysium, etc. I watch this kind of retrospective media on KZitem to look for people talking about, in depth, what it is that appealed to us as kids about these games. This video went above and beyond in that respect - we need to recognize the nuances of the gameplay in the things made for girls instead of reducing them to just the “girly games”, especially when the genres that they ushered in (“cozy games”) have terms and standards like any other genre. There are nuances in these games. Barbie exploration games belong in the same category as RDR2 because they are exploration games first and foremost. There’s a lot more, so much more I want to say about this - about the flip side - about how frustrated I was as a kid that most of the games that had playstyles I liked were about women that fit beauty standards I already could not fit into, a femininity I didn’t identify with, robust social circles I wasn’t allowed into in real life, etc. But that didn’t mean I disliked them or that they are less than or have no place in games. Far from it! I want different stories to be told about women. I also want to continue to see the fashion game formula. They are just as important as FPS are just as important as platformers. Anyways. Great work, thank you for what this video did for me, and basic respect for girly and girls’ media now!
@souleaterevans4589
Жыл бұрын
I had a couple Barbie computer games growing up. One was a pet rescue game with like less than an hour of actual gameplay. You just get a call about a stray, rescue it, then get to watch it run around in your gigantic animal playplace. Cute, but I wasn't a huge fan. The other was an adventure game where you're riding a horse throughout an old western area, getting items and progressing a "missing person" storyline by solving puzzles. That's the game I loved growing up.
@areyoucereal
Жыл бұрын
I love the way you discuss these topics with such consideration.
@cyanidae_
Жыл бұрын
I've been trying to make Detective Barbie work on my computer for so long. I STILL have the original disks, i played them for HOURS, and i wanna try them again. so far the only thing i've been able to emulate was Ocean Discovery, i had the gameboy color one and i spent HOURS on that as a kid! I feel like, without Barbie games, without media games like Lizzie Macguire or Kim Possible, without 'cozy' games, i might not have been allowed to keep playing video games and developed a love for them(my mom explicitly has stated that Video Games Are For Boys). I've felt the pressure of it being a Boy's Club once you leave the girly games behind, but i think everyone should have the chance to try and learn any game style they want! I see it changing, especially as more women, lgbt+, people of color, and disabled people are making it known that they enjoy games too, are ALLOWED to, and having discussions on not only what we love, but the shortcomings as well. Its still a bit of an uphill battle, but in the end, games are entertainment, and everyone should have comfortable access to them. For now though, i have this mmo i've played for a few years, and i decided early on, while messing with the character creator, to make Necromancy Barbie, and oh my god, facing combat and the story *as* Barbie has been so much fun. i've even got all the hot pink dyes and sparkly cosmetics like fairy wings. It feels like an extension of playing with Barbie as a doll, but in a digital sense.
@SebastianSeanCrow
Жыл бұрын
10:30 I think I had a very similar game as a boy in the early 00s. It came with a bunch of stickers and a Barbie branded/themed printer and was a dress up game that had other stuff but all I remember is the makeup part but it came WITH THE PRINTER AND STICKERS. I don’t remember much but I remember the printer and stickers lol
@dotdotdotdotdotdotdottod
Жыл бұрын
from my femmine perspective, i prefer games that have a lot of custumisible elememts as well as a good story drivin games with neat concepts that suck you into the world, thus games like the sims, mincraft and terria are fun to play as well as games like the fatal frames series intrige my intrest. i feel like a good barbie game would have more then one npc you could play as and unlock charter outfits as well as custimizble options as barbie is pretty self insert as a doll. but the game play could take on worlds like the mariposa series or any other movie themed adventure. barbies games could have so much potentional
@phieee8352
Жыл бұрын
My barbie game was barbie as princess bride, I played the shit out of it as a kid on the downstairs computer. My favourite was designing her wedding dress and getting flowers from the garden to decorate the wedding cake id just baked. I was also very much a bratz and sims kid too. Now I mostly play simulation and sandbox games, and even the high quality dress up games online (dolldivine ily)
@katelynna10000
Жыл бұрын
Not even a mention of Secret Agent Barbie? That was my absolutely favorite game as a kid! I also played the hell out of Horse Adventure and Detective Barbie (and I still have the original disks for all of them), but Secret Agent was the best. It's baby's first stealth game, with dress up elements. It's so great. Also shout out to secret agent barbie for the character of Becky (sic), the tech specialist who happened to be in a wheelchair. (I only played the first detective barbie, and she's there but we only see her face. not sure about the sequels) Seeing that character literally made little 8 year old me go 'hey why aren't there disabled people in more tv and movies?', and after becoming disabled I realized how special that character was. They didn't have to make her disabled. Some programmer had to go out of their way to make a model just for her wheelchair. But there was obviously someone on that team who knew it was important to have good disability representation. I'm still an absolutely sucker for any media with a character who's disabled, but their disability isn't the plot. Cardpocolypse is a recent game that does this well.
@gummmie
Жыл бұрын
secret agent barbie on the game boy advance is a really cute game. i can tell they really tried their best with the shovelware budget they were given. and i think some of barbie's spy gadgets were MGS references iirc
@Sschmeckles
Жыл бұрын
YES TO BARBIE EXPLORER! The controls are super difficult and repetitive but I had to work to complete it as a kid and so did my siblings haha. It was definitely dense but so fun!
@abbylarkspur
Жыл бұрын
Omg a VPN sponsor ad! I'm so happy you're getting that money
@julianpeppers1889
Жыл бұрын
growing up in the late 90's and early 2000s, i had quite a few computer game discs, i loved them. looking back, many were fashion or nurturing oriented, but i liked the customization and design, the control i felt, like playing with a doll house. also some were fantasy and history based, my main interests. i had barbie, my little pony, littlest pet shop...also a liberty kids game, and a time travel dress up game. HOWEVER, i also remember playing some of my brothers video games when he came along, which were more skill and timing based. once we had handhelds like gameboy, i played cooking mama and stuff, but i often stole my brother's mariocart, spongebob, and power ranger fighting game. I think simply including (non ridiculous) female player characters in such games is enough to make me feel included. I never developed great hand coordination or controller skills, and it's hard now i'm older to teach myself. Tried to play skyrim, but it was my first such game and i couldn't stop accidentally looking at the sky... but i liked killing people with swords! it made me feel cool and strong in a way i normally don't. now i play dnd to meet that need for an outlet. i enjoy games with simple controls but complex stories, like NITW, and Little Misfortune. Nancy Drew mysteries are good too.
@memethyst
Жыл бұрын
does anyone remember the barbie rapunzel game where you would paint the things in the castle and there was a level where you had to go through a maze? i vividly remember that one
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