Barbie Fashion Designer is a dressing game developed by Digital Domain and published by Mattel Media. The game was released on CD-ROM for PC and Mac in 1996. The game allows players to design clothing and clothing styles. Players can then print their designs and make clothes for their real-world Barbie dolls. Barbie Fashion Designer is the first commercially successful video game created for girls. After the success, many other girls 'games will be created, leading to the girls' gameplay movement.
Video Barbie Fashion Designer
Gameplay
Players can design clothes and clothing through the selection of different themes, clothes, colors, and patterns from different menus. After the players designed their outfits, Barbie modeled their outfits on the 3D runway. The software also comes with cloths, markers, and paint fabrics that are backed up in special paper so that the designs can be printed and made into clothing for real life Barbie dolls. This game complements the way young girls already love to play with their Barbie dolls and this has been said to have led to its success.
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Release and acceptance
Barbie Fashion Designer sold over 500 000 copies in the first two months of release and over 600,000 in its first year of release, beating other great games at the time such as Quake > and > Doom. According to PC Data, which tracks the sale of computer games in the United States, Fashion Designer sold 351,945 units and generated $ 14 million by the end of 1996. It was the sixth best-selling computer game in the country that year. Commenting on its performance that year, a writer for Next Generation wrote that "Barbie Fashion Designer has done a very good job in expanding the market and getting good grades with the female population." It was also the best-selling SKU for Christmas 1997. According to Joyce Slaton of GameSpot, "Mattel's successful Innovation was putting the Barbie Fashion Designer in the toy hall rather than in the boy-dominated software section of the store toy ".
Despite this success, the game received criticism for using stereotyped feminine themes. The founder of the game company Purple Moon said the game "... perpetuates an essentially weak version of femininity". However, its commercial success makes it a catalyst for the girls' gameplay movement and there is a market for video games designed for young girls.
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