5. Barbie: Race & Ride
Release year: 1999
Platform: PlayStation
How dumb it is: Barbie: Race & Ride is a first-person horse racing game. This isn’t an inherently bad concept, I guess, but there are only so many minutes you can spend watching the bobbing back of an animated horse head.
Sometimes, during a ride, you encounter a tree full of oohing owls, or acorns that need to be scooped into a basket in a minigame. The excitement only lasts a few seconds. I remember being more enthralled by the part where you can scrub your horse with soapy water, because the foam would make it look like a grape.
