not even when my sister was 10 did she want to play this crap, she preferred Crash, Spyro, and Tomb Raider instead. all i can figure is that games like this must be some kind of money laundering scheme.
not even when my sister was 10 did she want to play this crap, she preferred Crash, Spyro, and Tomb Raider instead.
it was just out of touch boomer shareholders trying to tap into the then largely untouched "girl gamer" demographic.
>it was just out of touch boomer shareholders trying to tap into the then largely untouched "girl gamer" demographic.
Just an offshoot of "corporate logic". Corporate logic says Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen are a hot IP that sells tons of merch. Corporate logic also says videogames are the hot new thing that sells a ton. So some hotshot manager says "Why not make a MK&A videogame? We'll be printing money!" The boss slaps him on the back, says "And that's why we pay you the big bucks Jerry!", they all have a good laugh, and go out for sushi convinced they can't fail.
>tap into the then largely untouched "girl gamer"
Yeah I guess they've been doing a lot of that.
Now they just turn gamers into girls.
These were aimed at clueless parents, not kids. Parents didn't know shit about what games were good or bad, and would be more likely to buy the thing they recognize and know is kid friendly.
Usually we didn't let my mom pick out games. One time she did and we ended up with Tail of the Sun because she thought the cover looked cool. Yeah.
Your mom sounds pretty chill though. My mom let me pick stuff only to keep busting my balls if really sure about my pick
My mom would make insult me for liking Nintendo games like Yoshi and Animal Crossing instead of wanting to play Call of Duty or Grand Theft Auto. I was like 14.
No mother wants a gay son
She wanted the D(pad).
she tried
This sounds like the start of a "cheeky mom fucks her studious, mild son's delinquent friend" doujin.
>TV: There's a new Mary-Kate and Ashley movie coming out: Mary-Kate and Ashley go shopping!
>Cactuar: Olsen Twins? KILL! *smashes tv*
Did the dance moves live up to the hype, or did America's #1 Music Video Choreographer phone it in on this one?
For a second, I though that was the "Featuring Dante From The Devil May Cry Series" seal.
I played through this thing because you got a platinum trophy just for finishing it. As I recall it wasn't even a bad game.
>I played through this thing because you got a platinum trophy just for finishing it.
What causes this mentality?
Napoleon said that a soldier will fight long and hard for piece of colored ribbon. It's the same exact mechanism at play here. We like to be rewarded so much that we rarely consider if it's worth it.
I mean, what other achievement you can create for this kind of game
> Switch between Hannah Montana and Miley forms 20 times
> Let everyone know your secret identity and get bad ending
> Beat the game in Robby Ray mode
> Tune in to secret AM/FM frequency and listen to Mr. Moseby dialogue
>Let everyone know your secret identity and get bad ending
I'm pretty sure that happens during the good ending, too.
A buddy of mine played through it to masturbate furiously.
Actually "a buddy of mine". I was more of a Nickelodeon guy. Dan knew how to pick 'em.
Barbie games did fairly well so devs decided to make more "girl games" based around other such properties, leading to mostly landfill shovelware.
The company that owns the IP puts out a bidding war. Whoever gives them the most money gets to make a game with their IP. So the winner is always some clueless business man who overvalues what he is bidding on. Than he tries to make sure it profits by removing as much over head as possible by defunding everything. Which removes even the smallest chance the game will be playable as the devs just need to put something on a disc and ship it in 2 weeks.
This is one of the most rare and expensive 3DS games. All the while DS version sells for pennies. Let that sink in for a moment.
entirely due to memelord collector bugmen
aka guys with jobs
I know one guy who wanted Princess Natasha game for GBA in his collection simply because of absurdity of its existence. It's a godawful game based on equally awful web series.
you might need a sample size bigger than one person to determine the kind of people buying these games
Normal girls play those games
>but my sister
And what happened to her now? Exactly
normal girls were not playing ps1 games
where you been, bro? Goth chicks worshiped FF7 back then.
FF7 and Spyro were definitely popular with girls, "guy" stuff on PS1 would be sports and fighting shit.
>normal girls
Goth chicks were a nerd group back then, zooms.
They had brothers with consoles. They didn't need to be gamers to buy a Hannah Montana CD
My sister played the Bug's Life game.
The PS1 and PS2 were incredibly normie core, cheap and stuffed with 'girl games', zoomer-kun. If there weren't any playing they wouldn't have been made in the first place.
You weren't even alive yet, zoomie.
>not even when my sister was 10 did she want to play this crap,
My sister played this when she was 7. It's not a big deal.
Relax.
these games were not aimed for children they were aimed for pedochads who bought any game with dicky on the cover
Fucking of course it was Acclaim.
Those fuckwads.
You ever wonder if there is a warehouse full of these kinds of games somewhere? I assume it's either that or they go the way of unsold Atari games and end up in a landfill.
Honestly I think about it every once in a while. Not about shovelware specifically, but about warehouses full of new, sealed, untouched /vr/ goods. It may not exist or maybe it just exists there for years and no one comes for it.
I suppose it's similar to medieval age when pirates were sailing out to the seas in hopes to find legendary treasures on some unhabited island.
We all should chase the same dream and break into random warehouses
The answer is not really, no. Warehouse space costs money. Games like this were dumped cheap onto retailers, and retailers sold them in the bargain bin before eventually dumpstering them. Not saying it can't happen just that it's not likely.
What's more likely is finding old games at retail stores when they go out of business because they got lost underneath a shelf that never moved for years. That has happened. Or you might find a crate or something that just got forgotten about at a warehouse maybe. But to think there's a warehouse just full of unsold, unopened retro games is foolish. Doesn't exist.
I swear I've read in the news once about such thing. I don't remember what games were inside, retro or not, but there was a warehouse full of copies of a certain game that everybody forgot about, somehow. It was about 5-6 years ago.
I've seen Youtube videos like that but they were faked, and you can tell they were faked because all the inventory was sitting out with cases propped up to showcase the merchandise like it's a store. In an actual warehouse shit is boxed up tight to conserve space. Again, it could potentially happen. I mean anything could happen with Bush in the White House. But it's just so unlikely.
>anything could happen with Bush in the White House
I assume this is a deep older Millennial/young Gen Xer cut of saying. Explain it please for us younger Millennials and zoollennials. I could use the nostalgia, right now
Not him but as an older millenial, 9/11 was an inside job and was used as an excuse to pass a lot of laws, policies, and even make a new fed agency (Department of Homeland Security) that led to unprecedented decay in personal rights and privacy. Oh, and who can forget the wars Bush started which didn't actually have anything to do with 9/11 despite that being the "justification" lol
Yeah, not warehouses, but Nipponese toystores apparently held on to shit. Even today you regularly see inventory from old toy stores being unloaded (or perhaps scavenged, depending on the circumstances), with items ranging from NOS videogames to 30+ year old promotional materials and doodads used to advertise said games. Some (unironically) know what they have, others sell it for lolwut-tier cheap, others just dump it all off on resellers who will probably ask a premium. But whatever the case, it's out there. The US is probably a different story, where most shops were corporate affairs managed by people who didn't give a shit and just trashed everything when instructed, instead of mom and pop stores run by Japanese proprietors who meticulously held on to things for decades after the fact.
NEVER EVER
NEVER EVER EVER
Would've been so fetch
I saw these in the cheap bins in Washington State at a Best Buy or something. They weren't cancelled here. Too bad I didn't buy any, right, but why would I have done something like that?
Didn't you guys tell me Magical Mystery Mall was pretty good even as a licensed game, though?
easily one of the best mallformers ever made
These kind of games had a market of parents buying them to be fair because they bought their son a game.
Most of them honestly weren't terrible games, just mediocre ones. Looking at a play-through of that Mary-Kate and Ashley game, it seems like it's not too bad. It appears to be a collection of mini-games, including a fashion show mini-game, which is pretty standard for girl games at the time. Doesn't seem too bad.
It's like most of the Barbie games on the PS1. They were pretty much servicable and a bit fun at points. The horse racing and super sports ones come to mind.
the cartridge era had a lot of shovelware but PS1 due to the cheaper cost of entry had super shovelware
you act like these games were supposed to be the next hot shit when in reality they were made with the idea that they'd make just a slight profit that an actual creative and unique game wouldn't be able to make because no brand recognition
Girls like puzzle games, especially ones which aren't real time. And some girls like hidden object games, I read a while back that almost all hidden object games are purchased by women.
My girl makes fun of me for playing video games WHILE she's steady setting off bombs and fireworks in her latest match-3/farm simulator hybrid phoneshit
Hunter/gatherer divide is real. We like to hunt (FPS, slasher and beat-em-up games), they like to gather (find hidden object games, click on a shiny object puzzles)
Can confirm, my mother and older sister basically went from adventure games like 7th guest and Phantasmagoria, to Hidden Object slop, simply because adventure games disappeared from the mainstream and all they really wanted from that shit was a game of Eye Spy anyways.
Girls weren't into vidya that much and preferred anything but vidya, publishers saw it as an untapped market.
Most likely the daughter's parents bought this shit for her and she plays it once and goes back to other dumb hobbies that girls are into, or if she's into vidya, probably go back to playing pokemon or some shit if she has that.