BestSeller Junior: Barbie Swan Lake

Other reviewers have mentioned difficulty getting it to run, but I put it on the old PC the kids use, a Pentium II 450MHz with 128mb RAM and 32mb VRAM, and it ran just fine. It also comes with the necessary versions of DirectX, Quicktime etc bundled on the CD, and it prompts you to install these along with the game. So it loaded and ran first time out of the box on a 6-year-old machine. Those who have trouble may be having it because other stuff is cluttering the computer up.

Great value and great entertainment - I'll be buying her more of the same. If yours likes this, she'll also like the Scooby Doo games too.


Great game, great graphics   January 22, 2004
Ewan MacKenzie (United Kingdom)
15 out of 15 found this review helpful

My 4 year old and 6 year old daughters love this game, and want to play it again and again. The graphics are great, and the interface is responsive. The gameplay is easy enough for them both to cope with but not so easy that it's boring. No doubt they'll tire of it eventually, but we've already had better-than-average value for money from it. Now if only they would play with the Barbie of Swan Lake plastic toys...


Check your compability first!!   November 2, 2003
Emily's Mum (UK)
58 out of 69 found this review helpful

I recently bought this pc cd rom for my daughter having bought her all the swan lake stuff for christmas I thought she would love this, which she did. The only problem was that the game kept freezing all the time and the sound kept stopping and starting, which made listening to the instructions or even playing the game inpossible. Having returned the game to the store thinking it was faulty we were then told by a family member that the specifications listed on the back of the cover did not comply with our computer. Basically we did not have real player 6 and the cd rom also needed 24x cd rom. I did as told by the store tried to download real player 6 but there was a price of 25 to pay for this upgrade. In the end we had to change the game completely and she ended up with different ones instead. So if anyone is thinking about getting this then please make sure you have the correct specifications. The two I didnt have were Real Player 6 and a cd rom drive x24.