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Oil Imperium / Black Gold (Electronic Zoo)

General info

Amiga Original

Relationships

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Stats

18,843

Genre

Conversions

Atari ST/E
Commodore C64/128
PC (DOS)
Tandy PC/IBM PCjr

OCS

Version info

No
Max 4, Sim 1

Features

Hard Disk Installer

Yes

- HD installer is contained on disk 1.

- Approx. 1.5MB HD space is required for HD installation.

Compilations

Releases

Year
Name
Licence
Type
Country
Publisher
Languages
Manual Languages
Disks
Rarity
1989
Oil Imperium
Commercial
Full Price
Rest of the World
English, French, German
English, French, German, Italian
2
One version is common, at least one other version is rare
1989
Oil Imperium
Commercial
Full Price
Germany
English, French, German
English, French, German, Italian
2
One version is common, at least one other version is rare
1989
Oil Imperium
Commercial
Full Price
Rest of the World
English, French, German
English, French, German, Italian
2
One version is common, at least one other version is rare
1992
Oil Imperium
Commercial
Budget
Europe
English, French, German
English, French, German, Italian
2
One version is common, at least one other version is rare
1993
Oil Imperium
Game & Mini Mag
Budget
Germany
English, French, German
2
Unknown

Notes

[1] Magazine publisher: Amiga Fun (Germany) 12/1993.

[2] Originally released in Europe in 1989, OIL IMPERIUM was later released in 1990 in the U.S. as BLACK GOLD.

[3] OIL IMPERIUM was the first (and perhaps last) game released in The Mind Games series.

[4] Distributed in Germany by Rushware and in Italy by Leader.


Known releases:
- V1.0 (29-May-89), V1.1 (1989) [German]
- V1.1e / V3 (29-May-89) [English]
- V1.x (1989) [French]

Conversion Notes

PC versions: Hercules, CGA, EGA, Tandy

ECS / OCS

Version info

No
Max 4, Sim 1

Features

Hard Disk Installer

Yes

- HD installer is contained on disk 1.

- Approx. 1.5MB HD space is required for HD installation.

Compilations

Releases

Year
Name
Licence
Type
Country
Publisher
Languages
Manual Languages
Disks
Rarity
1990
Black Gold (Electronic Zoo)
Commercial
Full Price
USA
English
English
2
Rare

Notes

[1] Game idea & concept by Peter Börner, Thomas Kruza, Tobias Richter, A. Graf von der Schulenburg and Holger Gehrmann. Coding by Peter Börner, Thomas Kruza and A. Graf von der Schulenburg. Graphics by Tobias Richter. Music by Karsten Obarski. Translations by Rachel Gauntlett.

[2] Published in the U.S. in 1990, BLACK GOLD was originally released in Europe some months earlier in 1989 as OIL IMPERIUM.

Conversion Notes

PC versions: Hercules, CGA, EGA, Tandy

Screen info

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Box: OCS
Box scan OCS no. 1

European Release (front)

Box scan OCS no. 2

European Release (back)

Box scan OCS no. 3

German Release (front)

Box scan OCS no. 4

German Release (back)

Box scan OCS no. 5

Budget Release (front) [TopShots]

Box scan OCS no. 6

Budget Release (back) [TopShots]

Box: ECS / OCS
Box scan ECS no. 1

U.S. Release (front)

Box scan ECS no. 2

U.S. Release (back)

Disk: OCS
Disk scan OCS no. 1

European Release

Disk scan OCS no. 2

Disk scan OCS no. 3

German Release [V1.1]

Disk: ECS / OCS
Disk scan ECS no. 1

U.S. Release

Misc: OCS
OCS no. 1

Codesheet

OCS no. 2

Codesheet (Scan)

OCS no. 3

Poster

OCS no. 4

UK Advert (CU Amiga-64 9/1989, Page 13)

OCS no. 5

UK Advert (Zero, Issue 1, 11/1989, Page 58)

OCS no. 6

Italian Advert

OCS no. 7

German Advert (PowerPlay 7/1989, Page 14)

OCS no. 8

U.S. Advert (CGW 76 11/1990, Page 101)

OCS no. 9

German Advert (Amiga Joker 3/1992, Page 15) [Budget, TopShots]

OCS no. 10

German Advert (Amiga Joker 12/1993, Page 27) [Budget, Amiga Fun]

Misc: ECS / OCS
ECS no. 1

World Map Charts [Source: Retro Commodore]

ECS no. 2

U.S. Advert (CGW 72 6/1990, Page 64)

Manual info

OCS
OCS no. 1

Manual (German/English) [Source: Retro Commodore]

OCS no. 2

Manual (French/Italian)

OCS no. 3

Budget Manual (German)

ECS / OCS
ECS no. 1

Manual (English) [Source: Retro Commodore]

OCS

1. When you sell all your oil in the beginning you get a lot of

money.

 

2. When the prices are low, save the game and start it again.

ECS / OCS

No cheats found.

Atari ST/E
No conversion screens found.
Commodore C64/128
Conversion Commodore C64/128

Conversion Commodore C64/128

Conversion Commodore C64/128

Conversion Commodore C64/128

PC (DOS)
Conversion PC (DOS)

EGA

Conversion PC (DOS)

Conversion PC (DOS)

EGA

Conversion PC (DOS)

Tandy PC/IBM PCjr
No conversion screens found.

Map info

OCS

No maps found.

ECS / OCS

No maps found.

MAGAZINE REVIEWS

Magazine
Issue
Rating
Reviewer
Release type
Review
Scans
ACE: Advanced Computer Entertainment
ACE 25 (Oct 1989)
835/1000
1
Amiga Action
1 (Oct 1989)
62%
Steve White
Doug Johns
1
Amiga Computing
Vol 2 No 6 (Nov 1989)
82%
Green
1
Amiga Format
3 (Oct 1989)
66%
Andy Smith
1
Amiga Joker
Oct 1992
Joachim Nettelbeck
Re-release
1
Amiga User International
Vol 3 No 10 (Oct 1989)
89%
Simon Power
1
Commodore Computing International
Vol 8 No 2 (Oct 1989)
85%
Bob Collyer
0
CU Amiga
Sep 1989
85%
Mark Mainwood
1
Datormagazin
No 16 (Nov 1989)
8/10
Lennart Nilsson
1
Génération 4
16 (Nov 1989)
79%
0
Your Amiga
Oct 1989
78%
Richard Henderson
2
Zero
1 (Nov 1989)
84%
Sean Kelly
4
Amiga World
Vol 7 No 3 (Mar 1991)
Peter Olafson
1

MAGAZINE PREVIEWS

Magazine
Issue
Rating
Reviewer
Release type
Review
Scans
Amiga Computing
Vol 2 No 4 (Sep 1989)
Preview
1

OCS

Lore Score: 77%

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