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Very prolific Chesterfield independent, although actually finding any of their many games nowadays is a pretty tall order. This was the firm that famously used to take out full-page ads in Acorn User, only to fill them with hand-scrawled impressions of how their games looked on screen rather than real screen shots! Packaging was similarly uninspired - each game simply bearing the Kansas logo in a different colour. To be fair Pinball Arcade is a pretty durable piece of software, and remains the easiest Kansas game to trace.
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A Star Striker style game, this is not as good as Superiors effort, if only because it looks so badly designed. The layouts of the aliens are less varied, the graphics not up to standard, basically it just isn't good enough to make you prefer playing it!
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A basic text adventure, you have to get off of Dracula Island before being caught by Dracula. The text is quite atmospheric, and the game isn't actually all that bad, but it isn't anything special either! If you like text adventures, then this is a good game to play.
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Fairly large and advanced text adventure in which you are on a quest to join the adventurers guild - to do this you have to kill a very powerful dragon. Its done in mode 7 and is very detailed for a beeb adventure, its parser is also quite advanced, this is quite an impressive game.
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An appalling flight simulator sort of game, this is very uncontrollable, and even if you do manage to get the plane under control, there isn't much to do, it says you have to shoot enemy planes, but I've never seen any! The graphcis are simple lines, and what is annoying about them is their constant flickering. This is definitly no match for Acornsofts Aviator!
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Another adventure from Kansas - this is not as good as Ferryman Awaits, not as descriptive, it does have an interesting storyline however. You are a prisoner aboard the starship Goliath, one day you wake up to find it abandoned, you have to find out why it is abandoned and how to get back home - its mode 7 and brightly coloured, not a bad game.
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A fairly average shoot-em-up, with a lot of varied monsters, the graphics are ok, nothing very inventive here, but it is at least playable. The only annoying thing is the fact that the ship you control moves very slowly and at times it is nearly impossible to get out of the way of the creatures.
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Puzzle game, put the pieces of the jigsaw back in the right positions in the quickest time possible. Its probably aimed at younger kids, just move the pieces around the board and get them into the right places. There are only 6 pieces, but the graphics look quid good so it's not that bad.
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You have to try and control a runaway train, making sure that you switch tracks in time before you crash into a blockage on the track or some other such thing. The graphics are quite good, but it isn't really a very playable game, and gets boring all too quickly. Not a bad idea though, at least it is quite original.
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Entertaining little Mode 7 educational text adventure. This was what the beeb was so good at, and why it's still used in schools, these sorts of games are so much fun, even if you're 19!
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A clone of BMX on the Moon by Superior this is definitly nowhere near as good, the buggy is uncontrollable, it jumps to far ahead, and there are just too many craters to jump over. It is nicely presented, but just needs an injection of gameplay to make it worthwhile.
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The only Pinball game on the BBC as far as I know, this is actually quite playable, and has some ince graphics. The ball moves quite realistically, and it also includes a table designer, which is a really good idea and extends the longevity of the game. This is definitly worth a play, and is even better fun for two or more players!
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Another text adventure, this one is quite good fun, although its not the most advanced text adventure on the beeb. Its not really bad, its just not amazing.
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Obviously one of Kansas' earlier attempts at text adventure writing, this has none of the interesting writings of the later games like Ferryman awaits, it is more like Dracula Island. The plot is threadbare, you have to find the ring that once belonged to the magician Zor.
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Simple snake game, you have to move the snake around the screen collecting the stars. It's just like the games now popular on Nokia mobile phones. There isn't a lot more to the game than that, it's just text based really, but it plays ok.
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Boring RPG/text adventure in which you have to find a crystal, its in mode 7, and is a bog standard move around the dungeon and kill things sort of game. Not worth playing, Kansas did far better than this themselves.
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An overhead shoot-em-up, you control the plane, and have to bomb various targets, whilst dodging flak and fire from boats, tanks, etc. It is very hard to shoot anything, because the bombs take so long to drop, so you must fire them a long way in front of the target. It has nice graphics, but is ultimately annoying.
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