Game Classification

Detective Barbie: The Mystery Of The Carnival Caper! Gorilla Systems Corporation, Mattel Media (U.S.A.), 1998  

Informations Analyses Serious Gaming
 

Classification

VIDEO GAME

Keywords

Adventure - Detective - Licensed - Mystery - Puzzle-solving

Purpose

Besides play, this title features the following intents:
  • Licensed title

Market

This title is used by the following domains:
  • Entertainment

Audience

This title targets the following audience:
 Age : 12 to 16 years old / 17 to 25 years old
General Public

Gameplay

The gameplay of this title is Game-based
(designed with stated goals)

The core of gameplay is defined by the rules below:
AVOID : explanation of this brick MATCH : explanation of this brick MOVE : explanation of this brick SELECT : explanation of this brick
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Detective Barbie: The Mystery Of The Carnival Caper! Detective Barbie: The Mystery Of The Carnival Caper! is a point and click adventure aimed at girls aged five and up. The story is centred on a charity carnival. Ken went to the carnival and everyone said it would be a good idea if he volunteered for the magicians vanishing trick. Well the trick worked but the magician could not bring Ken back. What's more Ken had all the carnival money with him!

Everyone's looking for Ken but no-one has a clue. Enter Detective Barbie in her first big case.

The game's features includeover 25 locations within the carnivala database of over 50,000 namesclues and suspects change every time the game is playedcarnival rides that Barbie can go onThe entire game is controlled via the mouse. To move Barbie the mouse must be dragged to the edges of the screen at which point the cursor turns into a big pink arrow.

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Distribution : Retail - Commercial
Platform(s) : PC (Windows)

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