2. Barbie Generation Girl: Gotta Groove
Release year: 2000
Platform: PC
How dumb it is: I want to pause to appreciate the lyricism of the title. Barbie Generation Girl: Gotta Groove. Barbie, who is a Generation Girl, has Gotta Groove. What does it really mean, more deeply than a reference to the youth fashion-focused 1998 Generation Girl Barbie line? I don’t know. Gotta Groove? Yes.
Players can choose six Generation Girl dolls with different music and outfit preferences to choreograph a dance recital for. After customizing the Barbies’ routine, players can drag-and-drop decorations, like a bursting bubbles animation or a star-shaped stage, to an infinitely tall recital space that looks like it’s situated at the end of the world. Barbies then perform their assigned choreography in that space while an unseen crowd cheers, overall forming an entertaining out-of-body experience.
