Pink Poison: Girl Games

by **Atari** on Mon Oct 30, 2006 10:14 pm

Sheri Graner Ray has posted a brief history lesson on the evolution of girl games on her personal web site.

As the Barbie clones flooded the market, that niche quickly became saturated and the individual titles performed quite poorly. Add to that the fact that only Barbie can be Barbie and everything else pales in comparison. Then Purple Moon closed its doors and Girl Games moved their business strategy away from games and changed their name, and American Laser Games (Her Interactive's parent company) went through bankruptcy (from which Her Interactive survived.) All this combined with the lackluster sales of the Barbie clones caused the industry to scream “See??!! We TOLD you girls didn’t play games!” And then they quickly retreated from the idea of games for girls.

by **Fierce Polly** on Mon Oct 30, 2006 11:16 pm

"Pink Poison" sounds like a band name.

by **Atari** on Tue Oct 31, 2006 8:33 am

Or an evil villian name. Not a bad idea for a CoV player to snatch that up.

by **Fierce Polly** on Tue Oct 31, 2006 4:10 pm

Hmm. Now you made me want CoV all the more! :lol:

by **engmajor2005** on Tue Oct 31, 2006 5:16 pm

Pink Poison isn't a bad name for a goth-glam-girl-pop band either.

by **booger** on Tue Oct 31, 2006 5:47 pm

Sounds like a perfume name, to me.

by **engmajor2005** on Tue Oct 31, 2006 7:01 pm

Or a porn star name!!!! :lol:

by **booger** on Tue Oct 31, 2006 7:12 pm

Speaking of perfume, ( not to totally change the topic or anything

) have you guys seen the trailer for the movie, "Perfume"?

http://www.apple.com/trailers/dreamworks/perfume/

It actually looks pretty interesting. Unique plot idea. Of course, I've been fooled by trailers before. I should know better than to be optimistic about anything that Hollywood churns out. Usually I get all excited over a slick looking trailer only to curse the talentless overlord hacks at the Southern California production studios afterwards.

by **alexeena** on Fri Apr 10, 2009 2:42 am

What do you do if your son wants to be Barbie for Halloween and asks for girls toys for Christmas? Do you let him dress like Barbie and let him play with girl toys? Doesn't this set him up for teasing and abuse by others even if you're not ashamed of him? What is the right thing to do?
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