A strange little side quest
Zoom out from My BFF’s Wedding for a moment and the timeline gets surprisingly deep. 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. Another piece of context lands nicely beside it: Midway's Gun Fight from 1975 was the first arcade video game to use a microprocessor. Grombi files that under: small game, surprisingly large backstory.