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Barbie: Fashion Designer

A dress-up computer game that allows players to design clothing and style outfits. Players can then print off their designs and create clothing for their real-world Barbie dolls.

1 November 1996

Barbie: Fashion Designer is a simulator developed by Digital Domain, released 1 November 1996 on Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What Barbie: Fashion Designer is

Barbie: Fashion Designer is a simulator game developed by Digital Domain and released in 1996. It was published by Mattel Media. It is available on Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).

The premise, in the publisher's words

A dress-up computer game that allows players to design clothing and style outfits. Players can then print off their designs and create clothing for their real-world Barbie dolls.
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How it plays

Its themes are educational. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the Barbie series

Barbie: Fashion Designer is the 15th of 106 entries we hold in the Barbie series. It arrived 10 months after Barbie for Girls Hearts & Stars. The next entry was Barbie: Magic Hair Styler in 1997.

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What it launched against

Barbie: Fashion Designer launched on 1 November 1996, within three weeks of Tomb Raider, Circle of Blood, Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble! and Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain.

Released around the same time: Tomb Raider, Circle of Blood, Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble!, Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain.

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When did Barbie: Fashion Designer come out?
Barbie: Fashion Designer was released on 1 November 1996 for Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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