ColecoVision Cartridge Instructions for 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.