Barbie Beach ๐ Vacation (2001) - Barbie PC Game ๐ฎ | No commentary Longplay
396It's time for beach fun with Barbie and her friends: build sandcastles, scuba-dive, throw a beach party, water-ski, learn the hula, and dress up for a souvenir photo. Along the way, earn cool items like fireworks, tiki torches, and beach umbrellas that can be used to decorate the beach for the final stage of the game - the big beach party. There are dozens of cool beach outfits to choose from, including swimsuits and sundresses. Barbie Beach Vacation takes Barbie and her friends to the the sands and the waves of a remote island. Like most Barbie titles, it's geared towards 5-9 year olds.
Review by Children's Software Revue 2001:
Barbie is in true, sugar-sweet form as children guide her through seven limited but somewhat entertaining beach games. The best, by far, is the open-ended sand castle activity in which children use a variety of bucket shapes and decorations to make picturesque creations. Castles are unfortunately not printable, but kids can snap pictures for an onscreen photo album. Testers enjoyed taking pictures of target animals on a scuba dive. They also liked directing Barbie through gates and up ramps on her water skis, but reported that the navigation keys could have been more responsive. Some children were entertained by Barbie's dance activity but several couldn't figure out what they were supposed to do. Babs sports some sultry dance moves, and while some adult testers found these amusing, others felt these actions were inappropriate. Largely superficial in nature, this new Barbie game is likely to be short-lived, but fun for a little while.
Barbie Beach Vacation is a 2001 action game within the Barbie franchise, developed by Krome Studios and published by Vivendi Universal Interactive Publishing. The game was noted for including "wonderful and pleasant" gaming aspects as a counterpoint to the more violent gameplay of contemporary male-targeted action titles.
Credits for this game:
Vivendi Universal Interactive Publishing
Producer
Dyan Daglas
Director of Development
Cathy Siegel
Director of Marketing
Beckie Holmes
Brand Manager
Melanie Bullock
Associate Brand Manager
Ginger Martinez
Marketing Coordinator
Angelina Coley
QA Brand Manager
Randall Linch
QA Project Leads
Jeffrey Hoover
Linda Quinlan
QA Associate Leads
Cyra Talton
Jeny Yan
QA Test Team
Mayra Orellana
Dave Damaso
Jerry Neyland
Brian Hirai
Tristan Anderson
Patrick Fiannaca
Daven DeLidle
Juliet Nimmo
Willy Guerrero
Seehe Oh
Earl Reinhalter
Lester Broas
Ladd Sullivan
Rodrigo Reyes
Matthew Sweeney
Andrew Warwick
Lilo Campeau
Michael Cabison
Misty Warner
Oleg Gokhman
Configuration Engineers
Jason Perry
Mark Jihanian
Robert Gardner
Afolabi Akibola
Voice Talent
Chris Anthony - Barbie^
Grey Delisle - Kira^, Teresa^, Christie^
Michael McGarharn - Ken^
Special Thanks
Leslie House
Stephen Farr-Jones
Jacqui Bracey
Pamela Blanford
Andrea Geli
Cathy Johnson
Jennifer Dancy
Mattel Incorporated
Girls Interactive Group
Senior Manager
Patricia Masai
Development Manager
Janice Newton
Marketing Manager
Jillian Winn
Vice President
Christina DeRosa
Mattel Special Thanks
Jim Balthaser
Kelly O'Hearn
Cathy Takemura
Denise Stanley
Krome Studios
Chief Executive Officer
Robert Walsh
Director of Development
John Passfield
Creative Director
Steve Stamatiadis
Studio Manager
Andy Green
Executive Producer
Robert Walsh
Producer
Robert Watson
Project Manager
Mario Wynands
Game Design
Robert Watson
Andrew Wright
Mario Wynands
Programming
David Gilligan
Craig Herring
Daniel Sewell
Additional Programming
Tony Ball
Daniel Krenn
Tyrone McAuley
Steve 'Sly' Williams
Ashley Seabright
Art Lead
Stuart Middleton
Cinematics Design and Direction
John Sheils
Graphic Art
Aaron Allport
James Bell
Mark Cuthbert
Corie Geerders
Jenny Paulo
Dale Pugh
John Sheils
Additional Art
Andrew Clark
Robert Butterworth
Hamish McKenzie
Jason Christie
Music and Sound
Simon Castles
Additional Sound
George Stamatiadis
QA Manager
John Barry
QA Lead
Ken Williamson
Senior Testers
Donna Shaw
Dan Smart
QA Staff
Andrew Bergmann
Daniel Betts
Ryan Booker
Daniel Cox
Alison Riley
Jason Cross
Peter Grogan
Andrew Maclean
Tony Parmenter
Grant Roberts
Peter Steel
Anthony Wigan
Hugh Winwood-Smith
David Yorke
Lindsay Parmenter
Ashley Angell
Krome Studios Special Thanks
Alieta Ross
Schamet Edington
Type: Game
Genre: Adventure
Release Year: 2001
Published by: Mattel, Inc., Vivendi Universal Games, Inc.
Developed by: Krome Studios Pty Ltd.
Platform: Windows
Fun fact: The animations were going too quickly from inside the Windows XP SP3 virtual machine I was playing this in. I loaded up FRAPS and saw that the FPS was around 400. FRAPS also has a feature to lock the FPS while recording. So I set FRAPS to 60FPS, set half resolution and unchecked record audio. I then started recording to a separate virtual hard disk. Now the FPS was locked at 60 and the animations worked perfectly fine :)
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