Barbie Magic Genie Bottle & CD-ROM - PC

Broadband ERA was great when they contacted me to make sure I read the notes on the game and that I was sure i wanted to purchase the game without the bottle. They shipped it as soon as I replied and it came 2 days after they shipped it!The game is just how I remembered! I bought it for myself actually and I love it I played it as soon as I got it home! I decided to take some trips down memory lane after I made 21 this year-instead of getting drunk somewhere! Anyways!!!The CD was in perfect condition! It was actually still shrink wrapped! It was like going back in time! There was a little crack on the cd case but the game is like 14 years old i actually expected worse!The game works just fine without the bottle! Just use the keyboard! Personally I'd rather not have the bottle- batteries and remembering how it used to give me problems when I was little I was glad it didn't come with a bottle! I stopped playing it when i was younger because for some reason my bottle just sucked, and nobody decided to read the manual to use the F5 and F6 controls on the keyboard to run and open the bottle!! The bottle would just be for decoration anyways!The game ran smoothly and the music was just how i remembered ! The audio was awesome! It brought back so many memories and I enjoyed it!The company who shipped it to me was great! They responded in a timely matter and I really liked how they made sure this was what I wanted to buy! Just awesomely of them really.

Don't bother with this one. It is too complicated for my 3 1/2 year old and too easy for my 8 year old. The whole game took my 8 year old about 2 hours to finish. There are no extra puzzles to make the software useable after the "adventure" is completed. It's now the day after Christmas and the "bottle" has been removed from the computer so they can play "genie" by themselves.

Just as I remembered as a child. You will need a certain kind of adapter unless you're using one of those ancient fossil computers.

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I remember playing this game when i was about ten or so and have absolutley loved it since. The only problem with it was that my old computer tower became very slow and made the game freeze from time to time. So because of that we make shifted the bottle to be part of my genie costume. I miss this game so much, I plan on getting it soon so my kids will be able to play this in their childhood one day. This game is filled with puzzles that make you think, allow the child to explore the game and find hidden secrets all wrapped up to encourage the imagination in a child.

Both my daughter and I love this game. She is 5 years old. I have to help her with it a bit though at times. One puzzle in particular was a little challenging. Most of the game is pretty much hide and seek. Items are hidden and you seek. Not that it is bad, my daughter enjoys it as the lands in which you explore are quite beautiful and magical. The best part of this game is of course the genie bottle. Just wave your hand in front of the pink gem and watch sparkles, hearts and stars float around or see items rise up in the air. If you take the top of the bottle off, Barbie genie appears in a cloudy pink swirl and she'll travel with you. You also have the option to fly on your own magic carpet while looking for items which is really neat! My daughter especially enjoys this. Barbie's voice is very clear and not annoying and she is very, very helpful to help play the game ... which is good because the interface is not that intuitive at first! I did want to mention that at first I thought our bottle was a dud and didn't work. It would light up no problem, but not interact with the game. There was no trouble shooting guide for this area in the manual. So check out the Readme.txt file in the game! It solved my problem and the bottle now works like it is supposed to. The bottle itself is very pretty. My daughter thinks it is magic. The dark pink gems on the bottle will light up and dance and twinkle. The bottle unfortunately is attached to a very long cord, which can't be removed. Which is a shame, because the bottle works without the computer.The only flaws I see is navigation: instead of point and click where you want to go, you can only scroll up or down or left to right or forward or backward by moving your cursor. It would be much easier with a point and click. The other annoyance is there could be so much more to explore in each land. For example, the market place ... there are so many potentially cool places you could check out (as you would in most regular adventure games), but in Barbie Magic Genie, you can only really go into maybe 2 places.I love playing this game with my daughter. The graphics are nice, the music is perfect for the arabian theme and game play is easy. Makes for enjoyable and unique Barbie game!

My two daughters would give this a 5 star rating, I myself would give it about a 3, so we decided to give it a four.As far as price, I paid $40 and after playing it was disappointed because I paid so much for it. If I could go back I would not pay more than $25 for it.It is fun and can be a challenging game to play because they gems you must find are not always in the same place if you restart the game, so it will always be different when your kids want to play again. You can always save your game which comes in handy since there are about 5 levels you must travel through and it does get lenghtly.The only problem that we have had so far is that when you touch the magic bottle heavy items on the screen are to pick up, but for some reason they won't so we end up pressing F5 for it to work.As far as kids taking the bottle to play, I would not recommend that, since the parrell port stays attached to the bottle and cannot be removed.Sound and anmimation are good.

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