Adventures with Barbie: Ocean Discovery

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Adventures with Barbie: Ocean Discovery
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Developer(s)
Publisher(s) Mattel Media
Platform(s)
ReleaseMicrosoft Windows
1997
Game Boy Color
1999
Genre(s) Adventure

Adventures with Barbie: Ocean Discovery is a 1997 video game developed by Gorilla Systems Corporation and published by Mattel Media for Windows. A version for the Game Boy Color developed by Realtime Associates was released in 1999, simply titled Barbie: Ocean Discovery.

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The game was Mattel Media's first adventure game featuring the character Barbie. [1] Its financial success led to Mattel Media producing further girl's games over the next few years. [2]

Gameplay

Gameplay involves swimming around the ocean as Barbie and solving puzzles in search of a sunken treasure. [3]

The PC and GBC versions are slightly different; The dolphin plays a more significant role in Windows than it does in the Game Boy Color version. [4]

Critical reception

Entertainment Weekly felt the game was "underwhelming". [5] 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, [6] 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. [7] French reviewer PVG24 felt the game successfully penetrated the local market. [8]

Promotion

In a promo with Coca-Cola for its line of Barbie Software Products for Girls during the holiday season and into 1998, Mattel Media arranged a $5 coupon for Adventures with Barbie Ocean Discovery and Barbie Magic Hair Styler inside 12- and 24-packs of Coca-Cola "Santa Packs." [9]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Davis, Ziff (1998-03-10). PC Mag.
  2. ↑ Billboard. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. 2000-02-19.
  3. ↑ "Ocean Discovery". www.mattelmedia.com. Archived from the original on 1998-01-13. Retrieved 2025-05-27.
  4. ↑ GARCIA, ERICA (4 July 1999). "GIRLS JUST WANNA HAVE FUN DIVE INTO AN OCEAN OF DISCOVERY WITH BARBIE". nydailynews.com. Retrieved 2021-06-19.
  5. ↑ "Adventures With Barbie: Ocean Discovery; Talk With Me Barbie; Rockett's New School; Zero Zero". EW.com. Retrieved 2021-06-19.
  6. ↑ Hafner, Katie (1998-09-10). "Girl Games: Plenty And Pink". The New York Times. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved 2021-06-19.
  7. ↑ Shade, L.R. (Winter 1999). "Just add girls and stir? [review of "From Barbie to Mortal Kombat: Gender and Computer Games"]" . IEEE Technology and Society Magazine. 18 (4): 35–36. doi:10.1109/MTAS.2000.808847. ISSN   1937-416X. S2CID   24619138.
  8. ↑ PVG24. "Barbie Ocean Discovery (par PVG24)". www.pvg24.com. Retrieved 2021-06-19.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  9. ↑ "Promos break for Barbie software". adage.com. 1997-11-18. Retrieved 2021-06-19.
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