A strange little side quest
Even a quick game like Lucy Makeup and Dress Up sits on top of decades — and sometimes centuries — of ideas. 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 timeline takes another interesting turn: Midway's Gun Fight from 1975 was the first arcade video game to use a microprocessor. So a round of Lucy Makeup and Dress Up is not just a quick distraction; it is a tiny stop on a much longer fashion and style timeline.
