Detective Barbie: The Mystery Of The Carnival Caper! is a point and click adventure aimed at girls aged five and up. The story is centred on a charity carnival. Ken went to the carnival and everyone said it would be a good idea if he volunteered for the magicians vanishing trick. Well the trick worked but the magician could not bring Ken back. What's more Ken had all the carnival money with him!

Everyone's looking for Ken but no-one has a clue. Enter Detective Barbie in her first big case.

The game's features include
1. over 25 locations within the carnival
2. a database of over 50,000 names
3. clues and suspects change every time the game is played
4. carnival rides that Barbie can go on

The entire game is controlled via the mouse. To move Barbie the mouse must be dragged to the edges of the screen at which point the cursor turns into a big pink arrow.