Oil's Well
| Oil's Well | |
|---|---|
| Developer(s) | Sierra On-Line |
| Publisher(s) | Sierra On-Line |
| Programmer(s) | Atari 8-bit Thomas J. Mitchell Apple II Ivan Strand |
| Composer(s) | Ken Allen |
| Platform(s) | Apple II, Atari 8-bit, Commodore 64, ColecoVision, IBM PC, MS-DOS, MSX, Sharp X1 |
| Release | 1983: Apple, Atari, C64 1984: ColecoVision, IBM PC 1985: MSX, Sharp 1990: MS-DOS |
| Genre(s) | Maze |
| Mode(s) | Single-player |
Oil's Well (a pun on "all's well") is a video game published by Sierra On-Line in 1983. The game was written for the Atari 8-bit computers by Thomas J. Mitchell. Oil's Well is similar to the 1982 arcade game Anteater, re-themed to be about drilling for oil instead of a hungry insectivore. Ports were released in 1983 for the Apple II and Commodore 64, in 1984 for ColecoVision and the IBM PC (as a self-booting disk), then in 1985 for MSX and the Sharp X1. A version with improved visuals and without Mitchell's involvement was released for MS-DOS in 1990.