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''Barbie Super Model'' is a 1993 game for the UsefulNotes/IBMPersonalComputer, UsefulNotes/SegaGenesis and UsefulNotes/SuperNintendoEntertainmentSystem in which the player plays as {{Franchise/Barbie}}, going through her everyday life. For example, the player does a fashion show on stage, skating on the beach, and driving Barbie's convertible around the city. Many of the games are arcade-style side-scrolling, like having Barbie's car drive horizontally across the screen while trying to steer clear of other cars.

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''Barbie Super Model'' is a 1993 game for the UsefulNotes/IBMPersonalComputer, Platform/IBMPersonalComputer, UsefulNotes/SegaGenesis and UsefulNotes/SuperNintendoEntertainmentSystem Platform/SuperNintendoEntertainmentSystem in which the player plays as {{Franchise/Barbie}}, going through her everyday life. For example, the player does a fashion show on stage, skating on the beach, and driving Barbie's convertible around the city. Many of the games are arcade-style side-scrolling, like having Barbie's car drive horizontally across the screen while trying to steer clear of other cars.
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* FashionModel: Barbie's one in this game, as indicated by the title. So several outfits will be tried on.
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* AWinnerIsYou: You get Barbie to the fashion show. And the credits roll.


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* MinigameGame: Several "levels" are just very basic minigames. Like walking along the street and avoiding obstacles, making timed button presses at the fashion show, or riding a ski and avoiding obstacles.
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* BrainlessBeauty: Barbie might be one: She spends all of her time participating in fashion shows, modeling, driving fancy cars around, or exercising. She never does any intellectual activities in the game.
* CostumePorn: The game lapses into this occasionally.
* EveryoneLovesBlondes
* EverythingsBetterWithSparkles

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\n* BrainlessBeauty: Barbie might be one: She spends all of her time participating in fashion shows, modeling, driving fancy cars around, or exercising. She never does any intellectual activities in the game.\n* CostumePorn: The Using large sprites (and/or backgrounds as sprites), the game lapses into this occasionally.
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gets some pretty detailed designs on the clothes.
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EveryoneLovesBlondes
* EverythingsBetterWithSparklesEverythingsBetterWithSparkles: Sparkles appear a lot in the game.



* FashionShow: The main point of the game.
* GameplayRoulette: The game switches from a side scroller, to matching magazine covers with outfits, to remembering the correct order of Barbie's dance moves in the span of a few minutes. This might be a JustifiedTrope since the game was made for children who may have had shorter attention spans and would have enjoyed the variety of gameplay.
* GirlyGirl: Barbie fits this trope to a T.

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* FashionModel: Barbie's one in this game, as indicated by the title. So several outfits will be tried on.
* FashionShow: The main point of the game.
game is to get ready for one.
* GameplayRoulette: The game switches from a side scroller, to matching magazine covers with outfits, to remembering the correct order of Barbie's dance moves in the span of a few minutes. This might be a JustifiedTrope since the game was made for children who may have had shorter attention spans and would have enjoyed the variety of gameplay.
minutes.
* GirlyGirl: Barbie fits this trope to a T.is still feminine, even when doing heavy activity.



* PimpedOutDress: Barbie owns a few of these.
* PinkProductPloy: All of Barbie's possessions seem to be pink.

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* PimpedOutDress: Barbie owns a few of these.
these to wear. The title screen has her in a fancy and detailed pink dress.
* PinkProductPloy: All PinkMeansFeminine: Most of Barbie's possessions seem to be pink.

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"Please do not add this page to a work's trope list. The fact that a game has had a Let's Play of it is not a trope." - Lets Play


''Barbie Super Model'' is a 1993 game for the UsefulNotes/IBMPersonalComputer, UsefulNotes/SegaGenesis and UsefulNotes/SuperNintendoEntertainmentSystem in which the player plays as {{Franchise/Barbie}}, going through her everyday life. For example, the player does a fashion show on stage, skating on the beach, and driving Barbie's convertible around the city. Many of the games are arcade-style side-scrolling, like having Barbie's car drive horizontally across the screen while trying to steer clear of other cars. The game was made for young girls, but some grown men have Let's Played this game on Website/YouTube for comedic effect.

Some funny Let's Plays include [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzj3H8-eCU4 this one]] by LetsPlay/AzuriteReaction, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ku2SVuqtxI this one]] by LetsPlay/{{Northernlion}}, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Tfito7xgWU this one]] by LetsPlay/{{Kikoskia}}, and [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFPRCfTKNf4 this one]] by [=MrSefe=].

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''Barbie Super Model'' is a 1993 game for the UsefulNotes/IBMPersonalComputer, UsefulNotes/SegaGenesis and UsefulNotes/SuperNintendoEntertainmentSystem in which the player plays as {{Franchise/Barbie}}, going through her everyday life. For example, the player does a fashion show on stage, skating on the beach, and driving Barbie's convertible around the city. Many of the games are arcade-style side-scrolling, like having Barbie's car drive horizontally across the screen while trying to steer clear of other cars. The game was made for young girls, but some grown men have Let's Played this game on Website/YouTube for comedic effect.\n\nSome funny Let's Plays include [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzj3H8-eCU4 this one]] by LetsPlay/AzuriteReaction, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ku2SVuqtxI this one]] by LetsPlay/{{Northernlion}}, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Tfito7xgWU this one]] by LetsPlay/{{Kikoskia}}, and [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFPRCfTKNf4 this one]] by [=MrSefe=].



* LetsPlay: There are several hilarious ones on Website/YouTube.
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''Barbie Super Model'' is a 1993 game for the UsefulNotes/IBMPersonalComputer, SegaGenesis and SuperNintendoEntertainmentSystem in which the player plays as {{Franchise/Barbie}}, going through her everyday life. For example, the player does a fashion show on stage, skating on the beach, and driving Barbie's convertible around the city. Many of the games are arcade-style side-scrolling, like having Barbie's car drive horizontally across the screen while trying to steer clear of other cars. The game was made for young girls, but some grown men have Let's Played this game on Website/YouTube for comedic effect.

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''Barbie Super Model'' is a 1993 game for the UsefulNotes/IBMPersonalComputer, SegaGenesis UsefulNotes/SegaGenesis and SuperNintendoEntertainmentSystem UsefulNotes/SuperNintendoEntertainmentSystem in which the player plays as {{Franchise/Barbie}}, going through her everyday life. For example, the player does a fashion show on stage, skating on the beach, and driving Barbie's convertible around the city. Many of the games are arcade-style side-scrolling, like having Barbie's car drive horizontally across the screen while trying to steer clear of other cars. The game was made for young girls, but some grown men have Let's Played this game on Website/YouTube for comedic effect.
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''Barbie Super Model'' is a 1993 game for the IBMPersonalComputer, SegaGenesis and SuperNintendoEntertainmentSystem in which the player plays as {{Franchise/Barbie}}, going through her everyday life. For example, the player does a fashion show on stage, skating on the beach, and driving Barbie's convertible around the city. Many of the games are arcade-style side-scrolling, like having Barbie's car drive horizontally across the screen while trying to steer clear of other cars. The game was made for young girls, but some grown men have Let's Played this game on Website/YouTube for comedic effect.

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''Barbie Super Model'' is a 1993 game for the IBMPersonalComputer, UsefulNotes/IBMPersonalComputer, SegaGenesis and SuperNintendoEntertainmentSystem in which the player plays as {{Franchise/Barbie}}, going through her everyday life. For example, the player does a fashion show on stage, skating on the beach, and driving Barbie's convertible around the city. Many of the games are arcade-style side-scrolling, like having Barbie's car drive horizontally across the screen while trying to steer clear of other cars. The game was made for young girls, but some grown men have Let's Played this game on Website/YouTube for comedic effect.
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* StepfordSmiler: Barbie never stops smiling.

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* StepfordSmiler: PerpetualSmiler: Barbie never stops smiling.
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[[caption-width-right:204:Training little girls to be TheDitz since 1993.]]
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* LetsPlay: There are several hilarious ones on YouTube.

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* LetsPlay: There are several hilarious ones on YouTube.Website/YouTube.
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* TheFashionista: Pretty much the whole point of the game is dressing up Barbie for the fashion show.

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* TheFashionista: Pretty much the whole point of the game is dressing up Barbie for the fashion show. This makes it similar to [[http://www.datingsims.net/dress-up-games/ dress up games]].
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''Barbie Super Model'' is a 1993 game for the IBMPersonalComputer, SegaGenesis and SuperNintendoEntertainmentSystem in which the player plays as {{Franchise/Barbie}}, going through her everyday life. For example, the player does a fashion show on stage, skating on the beach, and driving Barbie's convertible around the city. Many of the games are arcade-style side-scrolling, like having Barbie's car drive horizontally across the screen while trying to steer clear of other cars. The game was made for young girls, but some grown men have Let's Played this game on YouTube for comedic effect.

Some funny Let's Plays include [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzj3H8-eCU4 this one]] by LetsPlay/AzuriteReaction, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ku2SVuqtxI this one]] by LetsPlay/{{Northernlion}}, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Tfito7xgWU this one]] by LetsPlay/{{Kikoskia}}, and [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFPRCfTKNf4 this one]] by [=MrSefe=].

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''Barbie Super Model'' is a 1993 game for the IBMPersonalComputer, SegaGenesis and SuperNintendoEntertainmentSystem in which the player plays as {{Franchise/Barbie}}, going through her everyday life. For example, the player does a fashion show on stage, skating on the beach, and driving Barbie's convertible around the city. Many of the games are arcade-style side-scrolling, like having Barbie's car drive horizontally across the screen while trying to steer clear of other cars. The game was made for young girls, but some grown men have Let's Played this game on YouTube Website/YouTube for comedic effect.

Some funny Let's Plays include [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzj3H8-eCU4 this one]] by LetsPlay/AzuriteReaction, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ku2SVuqtxI this one]] by LetsPlay/{{Northernlion}}, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Tfito7xgWU this one]] by LetsPlay/{{Kikoskia}}, and [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFPRCfTKNf4 this one]] by [=MrSefe=]. \n



* BrainlessBeauty: Barbie might be one: she spends all of her time participating in fashion shows, modeling, driving fancy cars around, or exercising. She never does any intellectual activities in the game.
* CostumePorn: Laspes into this occasionally.

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* BrainlessBeauty: Barbie might be one: she She spends all of her time participating in fashion shows, modeling, driving fancy cars around, or exercising. She never does any intellectual activities in the game.
* CostumePorn: Laspes The game lapses into this occasionally.



* PlentyOfBlondes: Nearly everyone in the game is a blonde.

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* PlentyOfBlondes: Nearly everyone every woman in the game is a blonde.



* VirtualPaperDoll: One of the mini games.

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* VirtualPaperDoll: One of the mini games.mini-games.
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''Barbie Super Model'' is a 1993 game for the IBMPersonalComputer, SegaGenesis and SuperNintendoEntertainmentSystem in which the player plays as Main/{{Barbie}}, going through her everyday life. For example, the player does a fashion show on stage, skating on the beach, and driving Barbie's convertible around the city. Many of the games are arcade-style side-scrolling, like having Barbie's car drive horizontally across the screen while trying to steer clear of other cars. The game was made for young girls, but some grown men have Let's Played this game on YouTube for comedic effect.

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''Barbie Super Model'' is a 1993 game for the IBMPersonalComputer, SegaGenesis and SuperNintendoEntertainmentSystem in which the player plays as Main/{{Barbie}}, {{Franchise/Barbie}}, going through her everyday life. For example, the player does a fashion show on stage, skating on the beach, and driving Barbie's convertible around the city. Many of the games are arcade-style side-scrolling, like having Barbie's car drive horizontally across the screen while trying to steer clear of other cars. The game was made for young girls, but some grown men have Let's Played this game on YouTube for comedic effect.
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* TastesLikeDiabetes: Well, you ''are'' playing a game made for little girls in which you are a skating, convertible-driving, dancing, bicycling super model who [[PinkProductPloy likes the color pink]] a bit too much.
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* PrettyInMink: One of her outfits has a fur jacket.


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* VirtualPaperDoll: One of the mini games.
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* GameplayRoulette: The game switches from a side scroller, to matching magazine covers with outfits, to remembering the correct order of Barbie's dance moves in the span of a few minutes. This might be a JustifiedTrope since the game was made for children who may have had shorter attention spans and would have enjoyed the variety of gameplay.
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''Barbie Super Model'' is a 1993 [[Main/SuperNintendoEntertainmentSystem SNES game]] in which the player plays as Main/{{Barbie}}, going through her everyday life. For example, the player does a fashion show on stage, skating on the beach, and driving Barbie's convertible around the city. Many of the games are arcade-style side-scrolling, like having Barbie's car drive horizontally across the screen while trying to steer clear of other cars. The game was made for young girls, but some grown men have Let's Played this game on YouTube for comedic effect.

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''Barbie Super Model'' is a 1993 [[Main/SuperNintendoEntertainmentSystem SNES game]] game for the IBMPersonalComputer, SegaGenesis and SuperNintendoEntertainmentSystem in which the player plays as Main/{{Barbie}}, going through her everyday life. For example, the player does a fashion show on stage, skating on the beach, and driving Barbie's convertible around the city. Many of the games are arcade-style side-scrolling, like having Barbie's car drive horizontally across the screen while trying to steer clear of other cars. The game was made for young girls, but some grown men have Let's Played this game on YouTube for comedic effect.
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[[caption-width-right:204:Training little girls to be TheDitz since 1993.]]
''Barbie Super Model'' is a 1993 [[Main/SuperNintendoEntertainmentSystem SNES game]] in which the player plays as Main/{{Barbie}}, going through her everyday life. For example, the player does a fashion show on stage, skating on the beach, and driving Barbie's convertible around the city. Many of the games are arcade-style side-scrolling, like having Barbie's car drive horizontally across the screen while trying to steer clear of other cars. The game was made for young girls, but some grown men have Let's Played this game on YouTube for comedic effect.

Some funny Let's Plays include [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzj3H8-eCU4 this one]] by LetsPlay/AzuriteReaction, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ku2SVuqtxI this one]] by LetsPlay/{{Northernlion}}, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Tfito7xgWU this one]] by LetsPlay/{{Kikoskia}}, and [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFPRCfTKNf4 this one]] by [=MrSefe=].

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!!This video game provides examples of:

* BrainlessBeauty: Barbie might be one: she spends all of her time participating in fashion shows, modeling, driving fancy cars around, or exercising. She never does any intellectual activities in the game.
* CostumePorn: Laspes into this occasionally.
* EveryoneLovesBlondes
* EverythingsBetterWithSparkles
* EverythingTryingToKillYou: Happens in some of the mini-games, such as hitting seagulls and beach balls while skating at the beach.
* TheFashionista: Pretty much the whole point of the game is dressing up Barbie for the fashion show.
* FashionMagazine: You have to play a memory game with magazine covers, remembering Barbie's outfit on a magazine cover and finding its match out of a variety of outfits to earn bonus points.
* FashionShow: The main point of the game.
* GirlyGirl: Barbie fits this trope to a T.
* LetsPlay: There are several hilarious ones on YouTube.
* ImpossibleHourglassFigure: Just like the toys, Barbie's body has ridiculously perfect proportions.
* PimpedOutDress: Barbie owns a few of these.
* PinkProductPloy: All of Barbie's possessions seem to be pink.
* PlentyOfBlondes: Nearly everyone in the game is a blonde.
* StepfordSmiler: Barbie never stops smiling.
* TastesLikeDiabetes: Well, you ''are'' playing a game made for little girls in which you are a skating, convertible-driving, dancing, bicycling super model who [[PinkProductPloy likes the color pink]] a bit too much.
* UnlimitedWardrobe: Since the game makes a huge point out of dressing up Barbie, this is to be expected.
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