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Monday morning read: The untold history of Barbie Fashion Designer, the first mass-market ‘game for girls’ https://www.polygon.com/23776996/barbie-fashion-designer-retro-game-untold-story-history
lots of 90s game dev lore gems in it; feels incredible they pulled it off tbh
and, was it lowkey the first mainstream 3D printing game, too??
@shortridge I actually plaid this with my daughter. I still remember the hard part of making the dresses.
@shortridge this was a fuckin' _iconic_ piece of software + physical creation that i was the exact right age for when it came out (able to operate it all myself and put the fabric paper in my printer but also still vaguely interested in barbie and making clothes for my toys)
there's definitely SOME kinda link between me playing barbie fashion designer and then later making feminist hacker barbie to defend the honor of computer engineer barbie
@kaflurbaleen wait what is this feminist hacker Barbie, I’m immediately intrigued