Rich Girl Allowance Simulator: The Shopaholic Games 

THE “I DONT DO LINES” SHIRT😭

It's so crazy that even though there's so many people around the world, many different cultures... Yet we managed to have the same online experience rich with niche games like these! The nostalgia is making me so giggly, thank you for the video!!! This was my childhood!!!

I tapped so fast

Speaking of those old dress up games, Doll Divine currently has the old RinMaru dressups available! I thought they were completely lost, so many silly childhood OCs were made with that particular site

i wish the "THIS WHERE WHE HEARTA IS" shirt was real so bad I want it badly

Fun fact (which is just a lengthy story lol): those games are a part of what made me grow up to be as patient as I am today. When I was a wee lass playing them on my family PC, I had to start over from scratch *every single time* I opened the browser. It was set up to automatically wipe the history and cookies clean on closing, so I could never save my progress. There was an option to make an account that would allow me to escape the limbo of playing day 1 over and over again, but it required an email. I didn't have my own since I was a kid, and my mom didn't want to deal with spam emails, so she didn't let me use her address, either. I think I must have played that game series (as well as the Evie games!) like that for *months,* maybe even a year or two. I eventually rebelled and made my own email just so I could finally save my progress, but the experience of starting from scratch over and over again had definitely rewired my brain on some level. Whenever people compliment me for being so patient, I silently thank the Shopaholic and Evie games and the browser on my family PC for everything they've put me through. It was definitely an experience.

npc interactions could be so cute, you could become friends with the shop clerks and they could teach you some fashion tips or give you lessons in fashion history, some fun neat stuff like that

I better see all of you guys in 54 years when Li Speaks is finally allowed to access the shops in Shopaholic London

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I'm so glad you mentioned the inappropriate comment sections on some games !! I was an avid ggg user and loved Shopaholics but the Shopaholics comment section specifically, sent me down a rabbit hole and introduced me to 100s of male user's profiles that would add you and attempt to role play with you in explicit ways by posting publically on your timeline. Their profile pictures would be popular kissing or wedding games that had a male character and they'd crop onto the boys face so they all had the same bunch of profile pictures as there weren't many male characters featured on the site. Sooo many of these profiles stated they were adult men 🤢🤮 I have yet to see/hear someone even briefly mention the shadey comment sections so your one comment validated my childhood experience, thank you 🥺❤️

shopaholic paris is so nostalgic for me cause i used to play it all day, everyday. there was a glitch in the game that if u go from street to wardrobe a certain amount of times money would randomly get added to ur purse. so i could just play infinitely!

Those quiz games were a source of constant fights between me and my sister, ESPECIALLY PROFESSOR PURSE. Because you see, once you complete the quiz you can't play again until the next day right? But there were two of us and only one computer (and we didn't know about incognito tabs) so that meant only one of us got to play the quizzes each day, and we both wanted to play every day! Eventually, after many many fights, I discovered that if you can find the same game in a different website then you can play the quizzes once a day per website, and that really improved our relationship lmao

"This where whe hearta is" 😂 I'm scream laughing so hard. Also "smet" in bulgarian is a synonym for trash

The Japanese one had a store called SCHOOL DAYS ??? 💀💀💀💀

Shopaholic Paris and Holiday had a chokehold on me during my last few months on GirlsGoGames, I loved their outfits so much

23:43 I cant wait to come back in 54 years to see Li unlock all the new shops

"Most importantly, 0 gendered clothing restriction. Looking at you, Fashion Dreamer." Li, You are so real for this! I've been pained the moment I saw the select your muse type option in the game, because I knew it's going to be one of those gender-based dress-up games. Still, at least the color palettes made me forgive the game after a week.

Fun fact: Smet was a real clothing brand created by Christian Audigier (the same designer who created Ed Hardy)! I thrifted a shirt by them recently which is how I learned of the brands existence lol. The Smet shirt design shown in the game has the same font as the real Smet’s brand logo as well!

im crying at O'eurb 12:06

I love that your described ideal Shopaholic game is like Persona but with character customization and no combat lol

LIstening to Li talking about dress-up at the start not only had me nodding in agreement but also made me so curious if she's aware of Love Nikki Dress-Up Queen, aka the best dress-up game on the mobile market by a mile, and the Love Nikki franchise as a whole.

The Style Savvy fans have been asking for most of the aspects of your dream game for years. 😭 We were hoping Fashion Dreamer would at least be a step in the right direction. While it was in the case of finally allowing for more men's fashion, adding more curly hairstyles, and even makeup for both avatar types, clothing being gender-locked was a disappointment, though not an unexpected choice.

Only just started but you're 100% correct about the sims, 4 might have made build/buy mode and making sims' faces more intuitive but I can no longer make outfits any color I want or change a dress into bricks or sequins and I'll never forgive EA for this loss

Every time I played dress up games I pretended to be a personal fashion assistant, so a dream game for me would be one where you meet clients, build a relationship with them, follow their story lines, with some romanceable options. You get paid for their appointments which then lets you buy more things. A fashionista simulator. Please someone take my money and make it happen. I don't think game developers realize that us retro-fashion-games-lovers are now adults with adult money to spend 💅 Thank you for this video! So glad I found you.

I WAS ADDICTED TO THESE GAMES when I was a kid playing girls go games on supervised for hours on end. I'm glad I'm not the only person who remembers

As an older/peak millennial, I've never played any of the games, owned any of the toys, or watched any of the shows you talk about, but this channel has officially become my new favorite source of "oddly comforting video essays to put on in the background while doing something else".

I would DIE if you covered the old Build a bear website. I used to spend so long in there. My favorite parts were clocking in to my job at the coffee shop or failing to roast marshmallows by the camp fire. It was such a big map: it always felt like there was never enough time in my allotted one hour of screen time to do everything

I REMEMBER THESE GAMES SO WELL. Back when I was a kid I used to play these on a dusty computer in my Russian caretaker's home. I didn't know English at the time, so I just went along with the game in utter joy of all of the flashy outfits. My favorite was the Paris one XD

The Rio one releasing in 2015 makes me believe it's probably a tie-in to the _2016_ Olympics, which like. Was kinda jumping the gun a bit, but only by a year.

I actually remember playing the beach game back in elementary. There’s something you missed though, there was an npc that would come up to you and ask to take photos of you which gave a LOT of money. I think you’d get the option to save the photo and see it, but I can’t fully remember.

Final Fantasy XIV is my favorite Dress up game and I'm not even kidding

As someone who literally got a degree in game development and took a course by who is essentially the father of the Dark Pattern classifications, hearing you go over how these games fit within those was super exciting. You did a great job analyzing all of these imo!! I always love your videos, but this was like an extra gem on the bling bling earrings for me :)

I think we need some 💫Smet💫 inspired merch

For some reason, the shopaholic games are the corest memories I have of girls go games (juegos de chicas in Spanish). I remember being FURIOUS at Aries for always being the first zodiac sign that appeared in the New Game screen. Me as Pisces I was always last. This thought of aries being so “self-centered” got stuck with me and Aries are still my least favourite zodiac sign. At some point of life, because of these games I got them mixed up with libras. It’s so funny to me that you have posted about this because I have literally talked about this game and my beef with Aries to my girlfriends TODAY.

OMG IF YOU EVER GET AROUND TO IT I AM BEGGING YOU TO COVER WINX CLUB, THE DOLLS AND SHOW ARE SO ICONIC

AHHHH IVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS ONE!! the shopaholic games to a fashion obsessed 6yr old were a goldmine of endless entertainment and fun, esp after school. I’d hop on my mum’s 2006 HP laptop, boot up GGG, and immediately navigate to the shopaholic tab. I was so destroyed when flash disappeared because my main worry was never being able to play any Shopaholic game ever again 💔 I make sure to mention the shopaholic games in every conversation surrounding flash games, forcing people to remember it’s legacy forever 🛍️💖

The games I remember most viscerally were one where you mix ingredients to get a lipstick and try kissing a frog, and a puzzle game in a horse stable where you try to help the horse escape? I specifically remember a furnace room where you have to move a box of kittens and a horseshoe over the front door you would click to change the direction it faced.

I was literally just thinking about these games the other day, I was obsessed with shopaholic new york 😭

i was drawing while watching this and my head snapped up at the end when you said my name lol another excellent piece of internet journalism

LI POSTEDDDDD 🎉🎉🎉🎉 WE ARE MAKING IT OUT OF THE GIRLIE POP SIMULATION WITH THIS ONE EDIT: Btw I’m a game and web dev. I’m lowkey considering making a Shopaholic-inspired multiplayer game. Especially given how disappointing Fashion Dreamer was lol

A new "new style boutique" with more sizes inclusion, a few minigames and allowing use any kind of clothes regards gender would basically fit all requirements for your game, actually new style boutique is the closest to the shopaholic games out there (without taking in account apps because those always have the most pay2win mechanics)

I was wiping the remaining tears of therapy as I opened youtube to this incredible gift. Thank you for the most impeccable timing.

oh my god i use to play shopaholic paris every day for HOURS but couldnt for the life of me remember the name. the thumbnail was like a shock to my system LOL

The Cartoon Doll Emporium community was my addiction when it comes to dress up games. There were wars faught over some of the dress up items and the currency got crazy inflated but it was SO much fun! I miss that site and that community even more than I miss Barbie Girls World.

Long live "Smet" shirt 😔

her bangs look SO. good oh my goodness they're like placed and curled perfectly so cute

I got confused when you mentioned advertisements didn't apply because I swore there was a way to earn more money that had me dodging ads... After some research, it turns out I remembered clicking on a street billboard which advertised the other Shopaholic games. Clicking on it would send you to the Shopaholic game pictured, which due to the nature of GGG would play an ad before the game loaded, and reward you with $20 in the original Shopaholic you were playing. I don't think it counts as the "advertisements" category, but I'll mention it anyways. I sunk a lot of time into Shopaholic London when I was younger and it's interesting to look back on it. Great video as always!

You like my "I dom't do lines" shirt? Thanks! I got it at O'eurb.

BRASIL MENTIONED. that's all have a good night Li

The PPG parody was absolutely fantastic

Even before you explained the outsourcing games to China, I was thinking that the Christmas Goblin might have come from some translation mess-up for Santa's elves.

I was born in the latter half of the 2010s, the so the later games were the ones I played most, and oh my god the party mechanic used to make me *so* upset. I just wanted to buy the pretty dresses to dress up, but I had to spend all my allowance on whatever the trend was so I could unlock certain items. Didn’t help that, being a small child, I didn’t understand the daily allowance, I thought you just started the game with a stipend of money and then had to manage it well enough to not run out (which I always did). I literally never checked back the next day lmao

this was my absolute childhood and as an adult now i still go back and play these every once and awhile ✨ so happy to see this video

some of those bad english shirts felt like Homestarrunner bits. I love "I don't do Lines" and "Smet"

This has to be my fav video of yours! The editing was perfect, "smet" and the "myscene bling bling" bits killed me😂. Shopaholics will forever have a place in ny heart😂

Omg the nostalgia! Randomly made me think of this Rapunzel game on girlsgogames, where u picked different potion ingredients and performed tasks well or badly and that would culminate in a haistyle in the end. It was so fun for me to collect all haha

the way you have put into words what I have been feelimg for so long we need more triple A dress up games (even 1 would work tbh😭😭) like the genre's peak can't be browser and ds games, it has to go onn!!!

I don’t remember most of my childhood but every time I watch one of your videos it’s like an immediate shot of nostalgia

you just unlocked a section of my brain i wasn't aware of i played professor purse religiously for like MONTHS of my life omg

Your dream shopaholic game sounds almost exactly like the style savvy series of games on ds and 3ds!! You should check them out if you haven't aleady!

Ngl, I had this in the background while I cleaned my kitchen, mind went, "What would it take for me to make a really good dress-up game that would make Li Speaks excited to play? What aspects would make folks want to keep coming back to play without getting TOO addicted to it? How could the game I make cause a positive influence/ripple effect in the lives of those that play it?" And then my mind kept rattling off more questions that I can't keep track of, but maybe I'll rewatch this video later and write them down while taking notes. Who knows, maybe there'll be a new game for Li to review in the (far) future. Nonetheless, thank you for both the video and the inspiration! 💙💙💙

definitely didnt expect to see li speaks jamming to the brazilian national anthem today. brazil loves u li!!

Just watched this whole video while on a Wayback Machine deep dive through CartoonDollEmporium, playing the games I remember from 2006 onward- so much fun, I didn’t expect them to have been mostly archived but they are!

5:55 outfits today was literally my favourite game and the music went so damn hard

Ugh doll divine. The memories that just brought back 🥹

My favorite shopaholic was models, and part of it was seeing a world with only women, doing only "femenine" things As a survivor of sexual abuse, it made me really happy to be able to just be a girl, doing "girly" things without any problem and seeing other cute girls just walking around It helped me cope and heal, in a way, so I remember it as a perfect game, even the job thing was lovable for little me I was able to heal, but I still feel very warm whenever I see it, and I was so sad when I couldn't log again.. I'm happy that now I'm able to play it again, I have something to do today now! ❤❤ Loved this video, girly, thank you

Shopaholic was my favourite game when I was a kid around 5-10 y/o and when Im telling you I COULDN'T FIND IT FOR CENTURIES! When I found it again in some old ass game website, I realized that it's still my fave game of all time (and trust me I've played everything from flash games, to hardcore shooters, to mmorpg's, to horror games). There's something so relaxing and aesthetically appealing when shopping vitrually, especially when it comes to cute clothing! Too bad my favourites from the series are no longer available :(

I never understood shopaholic games because I didn't speak that much English back then, today is the day I found out it was a daily game

DollDivine my beloved 😭 I never played any of these, being older than the target audience, but I love your walkthroughs and heck, I'd play your ideal imaginary Shopaholic game too!

I remember there being adds for more adult themed games or websites and i would accidentally click on them and it would open a new tab and it would scare me so much id run to my brother to fix it cuz i didnt understand how to close a tab yet or go back

Do people not know about the successor of Doll Divine that allows people to make detailed dress up games using the layers in digital art programs? They are hosted online and work without flash.

PROFESSOR PURSE!!! You are targeting SPECIFICALLY me and I'm HURT the memories ;_;

Your dream shopaholic game sounds SO MUCH like the style savvy series!! No allowance or diverse body types tho. (I've only played styling star so I'm mostly only describing that) You earn your money by styling outfits for your clients and each shop (all with a different style) opens up the more clients you style. There's a huge range of styles too since it was originally Japanese, lots of lolita, gyaru and decora, as well as some emo, punk, and basic stuff. It gets a tad limiting when styling the clients as they usually have specific requests but you can dress your avatar as frequently and freely as you want! After getting close to clients, you can even dress them up freely any time! You can also customise their makeup, hair and nails and occasionally it gives you the opportunity to style some of they guys too (altho it's a bit more limited than the gals). There are aome clients that have a really cute and fleshed out story you can follow too. I adore the game and really wish it would have a new installment with more diverse body types and a bit more freedom when styling the clients, but as it is now, i think you'll really love it!

Omg I used to be obsessed with all these games

i remember playing these as a kid, but instead of just playing one, i'd open all of them in different tabs and move to the next once i ran out of money.

YALL LI IS SPEAKING ❗❗❗❗❗❗❗❗

Li, I just want to thank you for all of your videos. We have very, very similar aesthetics and interests so I RUN to every upload. Hope you’re having an amazing day!

Lispeaks has me on a chokehold with how i clicked on her video by reflex as soon as my tl refresh and i see her thumbnail

i did not have the national anthem being played on this video in my bingo card thank you li for always going above and beyond my expecatations

Did I manifest this?!?! I never commented anything, but I always thought this series would be perfect for your channel :D hoping it's a delightful watch

honestly i cant thank you for your girlsgogames videos enough! i was obssesed with it when i was little but english isnt my first language so i didnt even understand whats going on most of the times but all of these games are burned into my brain forever, and seeing someone not only reminding people of them but also analyzing them feels DIVINE and fills my heart with joy, thats enough to heal my inner child

Seriously, this was my favourite GGG game series! I think Shopaholic Hollywood was the peak, of course I agree parties could be annoying because at first you are forced to buy stuff that maybe you don't want, but after a few purchases, parties repeat themes so you can just wear clothes you already have and save money for the things you actually want. I love everytihng about Hollywood, the clothes look so cute and is the first game to introduce that inside look of the store rather showing us just a screen with a bunch of square with the items and of course, the night ambience! So, so cute. PD: I remember a game from GGG that I think nobody remembers, it was pretty much Dinner dash style, but the game starts with a mini-comic explaining us that our main character is a girl that feels insecure about her overall looks after watching models on TV, so she gets a waitress job to save money for plastic surgery and comestics, every level you earn money that you can spend going to the surgeon or stylist until you get all the procedures done (such as liposuction or going to the gym, I don't remember, nose job, lip injections, make-up, etc) and win all the levels in order to complete the game, unlocking a male character that also aims for fitting in beauty standandars. The story was pretty weird and controversial I guess, of course there's some game that aren't meant to teach children good morals, but I think is weird to not find someone that rememberse that game.

bro i was always trying to remember this game series on ggg this was the one. i played this for hours, in every version i loved it so much. BRING BACK SHOPAHOLICCCC.

Can't wait for the part two video in 54 years

Omg this just unlocked a memory. in my head/my memories the shopaholic games and style boutique on the DS kind of merged together to one game I guess. And this finally explains why playing style boutique never felt as satisfying as I remembered it, because the game in my memory wasn’t just style boutique 😭😂 I need to play shopaholic asap

That Sunshine Shoppaholic street antagonist got me feeling some type of way and I don't know if I'm vibing with it

I miss old school GGG. I wasn’t big on the shopalohic games but I LOVED the dress up and makeover games. I loved to make them look like my ocs.

saw the announcement for the upload on twitter and immediately hopped over!! so excited to watch the video

Okay your description of your dream Shopaholic game had me salivating, I want that to become real so badly now 😭

That "dream shopaholic game" you described is such a good idea!!! Aaaaghhh I wanna try to make one, I love dress-up games!!

There is one game that is very similar to the shopaholic games that I can think of. It’s called Hollywood Story, an app game on the Apple and Googleplay stores. From the street scrolling, the different places to visit, to the shops you can enter that closely resembles the shopaholic Hollywood format. There’s a diner you can work at. But the downsides to that game is the special currency of diamonds, the in game prices are insane, the energy, the daily things like daily slots, the wheel, the golden wheel, the regular slots, the fashion arena are honestly grindy, insanely expensive and high key a gamble machine. I’ve alone experienced that game for a short time since I missed the shopaholic games because it closely resembled it but I will take the Shopaholic Hollywood format any day over that game. 😅

NEW LI VIDEO RIGHT WHEN I'M FEELING BORED AAAAAAA

I LOVED these games as a kid OMG!!! Have you ever played/looked into the Personal Shopper games?? They're seek and finds but you play as a professional shopper for rich clients and I loved it so much because I remember there being lore/a through line or something like that? Like I remember in one game, you're buying stuff for this man and you get stuff for his business, his wedding, all the way up to shopping for his nursery 😂❤️

I loved the shopaholic games so much. I remember playing the one set in Hawaii all the time. Not enough to check in daily though. Also to add on to your dream shopaholic game, you could include a clothing design feature like animal crossing where you have account and clothing codes to share outfit ideas with other players.

speaking of quizzes, there was this one game where you were choosing from two pictures and it showed you the type of "monster" you are?? like fairy, druid, vampire and then you'll get additional clothing/accessories and you could dress up your doll 😭 I totally forgot the name but I played it everyday

Yessss another comfort video from one of my favorite youtubers! Now I can add this to the binge watching of your videos I’ve been doing repeatedly recently. Not sure why I keep watching them over and over but they bring me comfort and joy so I will not stop.

LETS GOOOOOO Always a good day when Li uploads!

I played either professor purse or something similar. I packed the bag based soley on what i would pack if me and my brothers went on some trip. Just pure nostalgia

OHHH this is a series for ME💖💖💖💖 I'm so so excited, your videos are so fun and nostalgic!!

I remember all of these, Li your videos give me so much comfort!