Barbie (1991 video game) Barbie (1991 video game) Barbie is a multi-platform video game developed by Imagineering for Hi Tech Expressions. It is based on Mattel Inc.'s doll of the same name and was created in an attempt to get more girls to play video games. As such, it is one of the few explicitly girl-oriented NES games. The game takes place in a dream where Barbie must travel through three different worlds (Mall, Underwater and Soda Shop) to gather accessories before attending a ball to meet Ken. Despite it having been of little interest to typical gamers at the time of its release,
Spell My Name with an S concepts of chaos theory at a time when the butterfly effect was not yet fashionable. Although Ray Bradbury's "A Sound of Thunder" was earlier and has been more anthologised, this story is conceptually far more parsimonious, more sophisticated and more useful in illustrating chaotic effects in complex systems. The story concerns Marshall Zebatinsky, a Polish-American nuclear physicist. He is concerned that his career has stalled, and in desperation consults a numerologist for advice on restarting it. The numerologist advises him to change the first letter of his name to "S": Sebatinsky. A complicated series of events ensue in which Sebatinsky