Mattel sold both Mattel Interactive and The Learning Company in 2000 at a loss to Gores Technology group. With the merger, Mattel themselves laid off 3000 employees In the fall of 1998, Mattel agreed to acquire The Learning Company in a stock-for-stock merger valuing the company at approximately $4.2 billion. Mattel Media later expanded to Video Games soon after, publishing titles like Hot Wheels Stunt Track Driver. With the success of their first wave of products, Mattel Media then set on producing CD-ROM based interactive material for toys such as the Talk with Me! Barbie. The company's first releases came out in the Fall of 1996, with the company's Barbie Fashion Designer program was the first commercially successful video game made for girls. Mattel originally founded the company as Mattel Media in February 1996, as an aim to expand into the multimedia unit by producing CD-ROM titles based on Mattel franchises like Hot Wheels, Barbie, Fisher-Price and Polly Pocket.
Mattel Interactive (Known as Mattel Media until 1999) was a video game publisher and software distributor. JSTOR ( November 2017) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message).Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.įind sources: "Mattel Interactive" – news Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. It does have a nice pace to it and there is more variety to the gameplay than many people give the game credit for.This article needs additional citations for verification. However, as this is made for kids we will give it a pass for that. It is rather short like most of the other Barbie games and it is not all that hard. I would say that Barbie and the Magic of Pegasus is not a bad game at all. I do though feel that some kids will be disappointed they do not get to use the magical flying horse more than the game allows. Again, this helps add a bit of variety to the game so it is a welcome addition. The horse I am sure is a big part of the movie, heck it is in the title! Here though, you really only get to use it on the bonus stage where you try to collect coins.
The boss battles are really, really easy, but they do help keep things interesting. These do add a bit of variety to the gameplay, as do the boss battles. There is some exploration here, but none are that hard to find.Įventually, Barbie will have to use her special powers such as melting ice with the ember ability and one that allows her to float. You use the wand to turn people back from stone which is what you will spend most of your time doing. Barbie and the Magic of Pegasus has Barbie using a magic wand and as you progress through the game you get new abilities that you can use. One thing that these Barbie games do better than people give them credit for is the abilities that they give Barbie.
The game is rather easy, but the difficulty does get more challenging so there is a nice progression here for younger gamers. Each world has multiple levels for you to beat until you move onto the next one. They are nothing great, but at least each one has its own kind of style. The worlds are Castle, Village, Forest, and Glacier. The game has four different worlds for you to play in. The story of the game is that the evil and dastardly Wenlock has turned people in the kingdom to stone and Barbie needs to save the day.
In this case, she is called, Annika and her friend is a flying horse that is called Brieta. Barbie and the Magic of Pegasus for the Game Boy Advance has Barbie playing a character.
Like other games in the Barbie series that were released during this time.
A 3D game for the PC and a 2D one for the Game Boy Advance which we are looking at today.
Of course, it is pretty much a legal requirement that if there is a Barbie straight to DVD movie that it has to have a video game tie in. Barbie and the Magic of Pegasus is notable for being the first of the straight to DVD Barbie movies that was in 3D.