Barbie: Pet Rescue

Enter Barbie and her Pet Rescue Center.

It is her mission to pick up the stray animals, nurse them back to health and return them to their owners, all involving a variety of mini-games.

The game starts at the main menu in the Rescue Center.

By picking up the phone, Barbie learns which animal must be rescued next.

Picking it up usually involves a side-scrolling vehicle ride to the destination (in a scooter, car or boat) in which Barbie must avoid or jump over obstacles.

Most animals can then simply be picked up, but a few require a mini-game to be completed, including a safari photo shoot, the ice cream craze (a Breakout variant) and catching apples in a basket.

Once the animal is back in the Rescue Center, its health and happiness ratings need to be increased to maximum.

Health is taken care of in the check-up room.

Available options are bandages, vitamins, food, and brushing or bathing the animal.

Different animals react differently to the various treatments.

Hints on what to use for each one are available.

Happiness is taken care of in the play room.

Playing with animals involves one of three different mini-games: Rascal Run-Around (a find-the-exit maze game), Snacktime Challenge (a concentration/memory game pairing animals with their favorite food) and Critter Keep-Away (a pinball variant in which a cat's paws are the flippers and must kick back a ball of yarn).

Once an animal is healthy and happy, it can be returned to its owner, involving another vehicle drive along an obstacle course.

Before it is returned for good, another mini-game follows.

The animal needs to be matched with its parent, requiring a jumbled up picture to be put together again from three parts w

Barbie: Pet Rescue for Game Boy Color is currently worth €10.59 loose, €7.11 complete in box, and €11.37 factory sealed. Prices are based on real sales and update regularly on Gamevaro.

Barbie: Pet Rescue has a steady sales history on the tracked marketplaces, meaning it trades hands regularly and isn't considered particularly rare.

Loose means cartridge or disc only, CIB (complete in box) includes the original box and manual, and sealed means factory-sealed and never opened. For Barbie: Pet Rescue, loose is €10.59 and CIB is €7.11 — CIB commands a premium because original boxes and manuals are fragile and often don't survive.

The PAL version of Barbie: Pet Rescue is currently worth €10.59 loose, versus €8.76 for NTSC-U. Regional price differences usually come down to print run size and regional collector demand.