A strange little side quest
One reason fashion and style keeps producing good game ideas around Princesses Cherry Blossom Spring Dance is that its history is full of strange turns. 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. And the history keeps stacking up: Midway's Gun Fight from 1975 was the first arcade video game to use a microprocessor. The screen is modern; the urge to test skill, pattern and timing definitely is not.
