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Oil's Well
You're rich. . .maybe. Geologists have just located one of the largest oil
deposits in North America, on your land! But you have to get it out of the
ground before you can spend it.
The other oil barons are jealous, and they would do anything to sabotage your
operation. They have planted oozies and land mines in your oil fields to wreck
your drilling equipment. Don't let them cheat you out of your millions!
LOADING INSTRUCTIONS
1. Make sure ColecoVision unit is off before
inserting or removing cartridge.
2. Insert cartridge into the slot, with the label
facing you. Be certain it is locked into place.
3. Turn on the power to the television and ColecoVision unit.
4. After the banner (title) page appears on the screen, your
game options will appear. Choose 1 or 2 players and playing
speed: Regular, Unleaded or Premium.
CONTROL KEYS
* To Start/Restart Game (fire button will do this too)
# To Select Level of Difficulty and Number of Players
(joystick will also do this)
1 To Pause Game
CONTROLS
Joystick
Use joystick to drill any direction.
Press fire button to retract drill bit.
You might have some trouble at first,
rounding all those sharp corners; but
keep practicing with your joystick, and
you'll be a first class oil driller in no time at all.
HOW TO PLAY OIL'S WELL
Your gusher came in, but that hasn't made you a millionaire. Not yet,
anyway. The competition is giving you trouble.
Every time you start drilling, an oozie attacks your pipe and eats right
through it. Or your drill bit sets off an underground land mine that someone
has planted in your oil fields. If you can't avoid these hazards you may have
to shut down!
As you gather in all those precious oil pellets, watch for extra-rich deposits
of high grade oil. Lap up that liquid gold, like gleaming goblets of golden
nectar.
In the deepest, darkest caverns below you will find an occasional deposit of
petromin. While this rare mineral is flowing up your pipe it creates a force
field which slows down those oozies, giving you a chance to mine some of those
deeply buried oil pellets. Be careful, though--the land mines are not affected
by petromins.
As you mine each of your eight oil fields, construction workers are busy
overhead building a refinery. Clear out all the fields and your refinery will
be finished. You can sell your refined oil, and live on Easy Street for the
rest of your life!
What are you waiting for? Your first fortune is only minutes away!
THE PLAYERS
POINTS
Drill Bit You get 3 to start with, and another for
every 10,000 points. Each has a life span of
990 ticks.
Land Mines You drill bit will detonate this, but it won't
hurt your pipe.
Oil Pellets Gobble up every one of these to advance to 10
the next field.
Petromins Special oil nuggets that slow down the oozies.
Oozies These will destroy your pipe, but your drill 20-170
bit will devour them (points increase as you
dig deeper).
Goblets Your drill bit can mine these super-rich 1000
deposits; they pass harmlessly through
your pipe.