And if you click on it, it will take a little stroll.ĭetective Barbie picks up where Riding Club leaves off in the effects department. You can care for your horse on the menu screen. There is enough there to keep Barbie players busy quite a while.Ī cool feature is creating a desktop horse that will remain on screen with your other shortcut program icons. You go on rescue missions, do good deeds and strive to complete all your Adventure Missions.
Click on the pager icon and you can beep a Barbie friend to set up a race. You also can add "snapshots" of things you see and do along the way _ such as galloping along a trail or finding secret trails _ to a riding scrapbook. As you progress through an array of riding challenges, stopping to play little games along the way (like "Vine Tangle" and "Apple Sorting"), you make strides in earning a special certificate of achievement. You start off by getting your own membership card, then picking and naming your own equine pal. In Riding Club, the scenes are attractively pastoral and do a nice job creating flourishes of realism, with various riding angles, and detailed sound effects that accompany washing, brushing and feeding your horse in the stable. They have played earlier Windows versions of Barbie computer games, but these are clearly superior in all aspects. Their eyes have been glued lately to the PC and two Barbie CD-ROM games on the market for Windows 95 and 98: Barbie Riding Club and Detective Barbie.įrom watching the games in action and the kids at the controls, it is easy to see that the products do an excellent job weaving splashy color graphics and entertaining interactive pursuits that can pull even post-Barbie girls into the fold. It suddenly has rekindled the interest of two older sisters, ages 8 and 11. But now, there is a new Barbie dynamic at home.
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