The American Girls Premiere

The American Girls Premiere was an educational application/game developed and published by The Learning Company for American Girl.

The game allows you to create and direct your very own stage plays starring Historical Characters. The Second Edition release, which was released in 1998, adds Josefina Montoya to the roster, as well as fixed some bugs that was present in the first edition.

Like in certain 2D games such as Mortal Kombat, it used digitised sprites taken from live actors. It was also known to be fully functional when run on certain Linux distributions via Wine (the game can be a bit unstable if installed on a recent Windows release such as Vista, though, unless if it is launched under compatibility mode).

One major disadvantage of the program was that the files made with it are only saved states rather than video files, necessitating the need for a screen recorder such as Fraps or Camstudio in order to make the play fit for uploading on YouTube

Use in Parodies
Despite the rather awkward interface and the somewhat limited way of authoring stage plays, the application has been used by some for making parodies, which are often way beyond the intended purpose of the game, like adult jokes and Downfall parodies.

Subtitlecomedy made use of the game in some of his parodies. Mfaizsyahmi's award-winning parody Goebbels rants about being asked to upgrade his graphics  was also made with the game, although the raw footage he used was a pre-made template file.