Oil Imperium

Genre:

Strategy

Year:

1989

Developer:

reLINE Software

Publisher:

Rainbow Arts

Perspective:

Other

Theme:

Managerial, Turn-based

Releases:

DOS (1989), Amiga (1989), Atari ST (1989), Commodore 64 (1989)

Also known as:

Black Gold, Black Gold: Sabotage, Speculation and Strategy in the Oil Industry

In games, you can really take on anyone's role and try different jobs. We are most attracted to top management positions in strategies, whether it is the management of a football team (The Manager), television (Mad TV), or as in game Oil Imperium - you can manage an empire in the oil industry. So you will become an oil business. At the beginning of the game, you can choose one of four goals to focus on during the game. Your goal can be either to be the best after 3 years, to have the first $ 60 million in your account, or to ruin your opponents, or to dominate 80% of the market. You must be comfortable to achieve one of these goals, so you can choose a company name, a logo under which others will recognize you, and you can even choose your own office. When you have all these joys behind you, you need to take care of the first problems and worries. First and foremost, you need to buy land where you start mining. It's not usually cheap, so think carefully about where to start drilling into the ground. Once you have the soil, you start with a well and here you can rely on your own abilities, or hire an expert to help you with the well. The author of the game managed to master the combination of graphics, sounds, attractiveness and fun of the game very well. It's not a one-night game and I've spent a lot of time with it. At least for a moment, you'll find out what it's like to run a billion-dollar oil business.