Atarimania

Atari 8-bit - Sears - 1979

Oil Wells

Oil Wells — screenshot 11 / 6
Genre
Strategy - Stock Market / Corporate
Year
1979
Language
BASIC
Publisher
Sears
Controls
Joystick / Keyboard
Developer
Image Producers, Inc. (The)
Players
1 / 1 vs. 2 / 2+
Country
USA
Programmer(s)
O'Conner, Leah
License
Commercial
Graphic Artist(s)
O'Conner, Leah
Medium
TapeDisk (not available)Cartridge (not available)
Sound
[n/a]
Rarity
10
Cover Artist(s)
[unknown]
Serial
7676
Dump
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ADDITIONAL COMMENTS

Updated on November 10th, 2020. Contrary to the other games developed by The Image Producers, Inc. for Sears, this program was never re-released by Image Computer Products, although it was announced under the name of Wildcatting (the title, however, did appear for other systems).
Updated on November 9th, 2020. Up until several weeks ago, this program was believed to be a PD game known as Oil Well. The title was recently found with the manual and there is now clear confirmation that it was sold by Sears. Available for download is a reconstructed tape image made from the 16K version of the game (which may differ from the original release). Along with the other titles by Sears, these are likely the very first third-party software products for the Atari.
Many thanks to Allan for scanning the manual!
Missing original tape images (8K and 16K)!

INSTRUCTIONS

Loading instructions:
- turn off disk drive and make sure you are in BASIC mode
- insert tape file in your emulator / APE
- type CLOAD
- type RUN

INSTRUCTIONS (1)