Barbie Team Gymnastics

by Vivendi Universal

Product Features

• Select from dozens of awesome gymnastic moves, and practice them on the vault, uneven bars, balance beam and floor exercises
• Girls will choreograph an entire gymnastics routine in full 3D
• After you've practiced & created a routine, go to compete against other teams
• Four levels of competition - Local, Sectional, Regional and National levels -- see if you can earn a Gold Medal!

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00005KG62
• Media: CD-ROM
• Release Date: September 11, 2001
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (27 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #36,794 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Amazon.com Review

Is the fiercely competitive world of female gymnastics ready for the perkiness of Team Barbie? Once we got over those impossible bodies, we grudgingly realized that Barbie Team Gymnastics would probably be a dream come true for any girl who loves both gymnastics and Barbie. However, don't rely on this game to teach any lessons about sportsmanship: either Team Barbie cheats, or the judges in this program all work for Mattel.

Play begins in the lounge, where Barbie and her lithesome yet curvy teammates, Christie and Teresa, await practice orders. Players must guide the girls through practice routines on the vault, uneven bars, balance beam, and floor. Moves are executed by hitting the arrow keys and space bar in a sequence that suddenly appears on the left side of the screen. If a player hits the wrong keys, or doesn't hit the right keys soon enough, their gymnast will bobble or (gasp!) fall off their apparatus, and the coach, Kira, will chirp "Don't give up!" as the program churns relentlessly onward. Maintaining composure after knocking Barbie off the beam is difficult, but just like an actual competition, the good players shake it off and keep going.

Young gymnasts will probably enjoy sweating out their mistakes, the realism of the sounds (that hollow thud as hands and feet contact the balance beam), and the 3-D images of gymnasts performing their moves as the "camera" swoops in for different angles. Another nice touch is a replay component that allows players to watch their routines once completed. It's hard to watch the routine as it's being executed, because you must instead keep your eyes on the "Power Bar" that orders the keystrokes for each move.

When players master enough walkovers and handsprings to earn a high score, they're allowed to attend local, sectional, regional, and national competitions where prizes are trophies, new moves to add to their repertoire, and of course, new team outfits. Here's where the cheating came in: at a local competition, we ran our Team Barbie members through their paces and scored 9.2s and 9.3s, while our competitors consistently scored 9.5s and 9.6s. Despite this, come trophy time, Team Barbie got the gold with a score average that was mysteriously boosted to 9.4! For this blatant disregard for the lessons of losing and accurate math, we'll give Barbie Team Gymnastics an 8.3 for style, and a 7.0 for execution. (Ages 6 and older) --Anne Erickson

Product Description

In Barbie Team Gymnastics, you'll join Barbie & her friends as they exercise, practice, and compete in a variety of gymnastic events!

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Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

16 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Doesn't work on Pentium 4 chips!, April 13, 2004

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Maddi Hausmann Sojourner "madhaus" (Silicon Valley, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Barbie Team Gymnastics (CD-ROM)

My husband brought this game home for our daughter who loves gymnastics. They installed it and ran all the intro stuff, she was getting very excited by the way-cool graphics.

Then we got a message, "CPU Not Supported." A quick trip to the Vivendi Universal website confirms that our processor, the P4, is not supported by this game and that there is no patch available to fix this.

Reading the box would not have told us this. The system requirements were Windows 95/98/2000/ME and "Pentiun II processor or higher." Well, P4 is higher than P2, and that chip wasn't released yesterday. I think that's simply unacceptable.

My daughter was disappointed, the product is going back to the store, and it's getting one star for not supporting a widely distributed processor. We can't run it on our laptap either because Windows XP isn't supported. Ridiculous!

Reviewed 13 April 2004 by mad-haus.

14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Barbie Team Gymanstics, October 17, 2001

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Svetlana Binkley (Lebanon,Tn USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Barbie Team Gymnastics (CD-ROM)

This is the best coputer game ever made it lets children who want to be gymnasts see how hard you have to work to earn your title as the best.I have played this game about 25 times a day since I have gotten it and it never gets boring it just keeps getting more and more interesting every time I play it.I love this game it is my favorite computer game out of the hundreds of computer games that I already have I may still be playing this when I am ninety-five!

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Barbie Team Gymnastics, December 25, 2002

A Kid's Review

This review is from: Barbie Team Gymnastics (CD-ROM)

This game rocks! I'm in gymnastics, and I just love it. You start off in the lounge, where you choose the girl(s) you want to practice with, and you can choose one, two, or all three. Next you go to the roster and choose the gymnast and apparatus you want to work on. You can also look at each gymnast's notebook, which illustrates all the moves they know. You can choose the moves you want, then put together a routine. Once you have finished, you get either a red check, which means you have to practice again, or a green check, which means you have done your routine well. When you are done, you can go to compitition! After each compitition if you win you get new leotards and cooler, harder moves to put in your routines. (Hint: if you find that you have finished all the compititions and there are still blank spots in your notebook, then go to barbie.com/gymnastics, and you can download new moves to fill your notebook with!)