A strange little side quest
The fun part of looking behind Ellie Artist Makeover is seeing how many older ideas are still alive in modern play. Barbie Fashion Designer became a major software hit in 1996, selling more than 500,000 copies in two months and proving there was a large audience for fashion-focused computer play. The same trail leads to another fact: Midway's Gun Fight from 1975 was the first arcade video game to use a microprocessor. Not bad for a few facts hiding behind a Play button.