Kikoskia plays Barbie: Vacation Adventure (Sega Genesis) - Part 1 of 5

Are you ready to go to places in America with Barbie? I'm surely not!

This game is also available on Super Nintendo.

In the options menu, you can choose between the easy and hard difficulties, select between one or two players, and toggle music and sound effects. In a two-player game, Player 1 is Barbie while Player 2 is Midge Hadley.

When you start a game in, you'll be asked to enter your name, which has a seven-character limit.

You'll then be able to choose between one of five places: an apartment in California, camping in Wyoming, a county carnival in Iowa, a Western ranch in Texas and a beach in Florida. You won't be able to go to California unless you go everywhere else in the game. We'll start with camping in Wyoming.

Once you pick a place, you'll be able to change the colors of Barbie's/Midge's outfit. From there, you're off to your destination.

Wyoming

Wyoming starts off with you setting up Barbie's tent. Barbie tells you what the tent should look like, then you do a jigsaw puzzle with the picture of the tent with the Control Pad and the buttons.

Once you set it up, you'll go for a walk in the park. Barbie walks up to a stream, and you have to hop across the stones. If you land in the water, you have to start over at the very beginning. You have to stand on the very edge of the path with the Control Pad to get onto the first stone, then it gets easy to press a button to jump and get somewhere.

The butterflies move Barbie backwards. It's like WWE referees being so weak they might as well suffer a broken quad as soon as they get hit by a slight breeze. Yeah, I know you have to watch professional wrestling/sports entertainment to get that reference, but one, here we are, and two, I'm not in the mood to make any jokes involving Space Quest III and sudden decompression deaths.

The turtles move in and out of the water, and you have to use them instead of rocks to get across streams. You'll have to jump off the first turtle to get on a second one, and your timing has to be good.

The beaver will push you off the rock if you're not fast enough.

After the nature hike from Hell, you'll take some photographs of the animals. You use the viewfiender - which is a target reticle - by moving it around with the Control Pad and pressing the button to take pictures when you move the reticle over an animal.

After this, you're free to head to another area in the game after reading a postcard from Barbie and seeing your score get tallied up.