Do you wish that Lemonade Stand was more British? Have you wished it was more difficult? Do you wish more random stuff happened in that game? Would you like to play yet another game by Anita Straker, who later earned an OBE for her work in the British education field? If you answered "yes" to any of these questions - especially that last one - then this is the game for you!
Longplay
This game plays more or less like Lemonade Stand, which was one of the earliest PC games to ever exist. Each week, your school team plays a match against a visiting team. (The sport being played is never mentioned.) You decide to sell teas during the matches to make money. You start with one pound, and from there, it's up to you to decide how to do things and how you make a profit. Costs will rise regularly due to inflation.
Type in how many teas you want to make, then press Return. Type how many public announcements you want to make at five pence each, then press Return. Type in how many pence you want to charge for each tea, then press Enter. If you need to change anything, feel free to do so; otherwise, let the fun happen.
As you go through the game, the cost to make one tea will increase, but so will the price to make a public announcement. Unlike Lemonade Stand, you can't easily get into a groove and be able to make a specific amount of money on a specific time of day every time, due to the price of things of both the tea, and the public announcements going up, forcing you to be on your toes and experiment with how you do things. Also, just because you made just enough teas does not automatically mean that you're going to sell all your teas every single time. You may sell all but one or a few, which can cost you money you thought you'd be able to gain. As a result, this game is harder than Lemonade Stand in this aspect.
Since it doesn't get super hot in Britain, you'll either get sunny, cloudy or rainy weather. Make less teas on cloudy days. As for rainy days, you may not want to do anything at all, as the power can be cut on the rainy days and ruin everything.
Sometimes, good things will happen, such as extra supporters or the team winning. This will cause you to sell all your teas and make the maximum profit with the settings that you used. These days are few and far between, however. Other times, bad things will happen, such as the Wall's ice cream truck (yes, that's a real brand that encompasses the UK, Europe and a good amount of Asia, Africa and the Middle East) taking all your customers to a plague of wasps being in the area that scares everyone away. (It's not in the video, but it's totally a thing that can happen in this game.) If the bad stuff happens, it might as well have been a rainy day, and you'll get no profits at all as everything has been ruined.
This is still a fun game to play for the BBC Micro. There isn't much in terms of graphics or sound aside from the musical interludes that play on a new week, and the play control is just you typing in numbers and pressing Return. You may spend a bit of time seeing how far you can go before playing another game, but it's worth checking out for the extra challenge.
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