A brief look at Oil's Well and Loader Larry

Channel:
LateBlt
Subscribers:
5,500
Published on ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RB1pDh-hZCU


Game:
Oil's Well (1983)
Duration: 41:49
1,018 views
35

After making this video, it struck me that the two games presented here represent the two pinnacles of DOS graphics. The first game, Oil's Well, represents 256-color VGA graphics, more colors than you'd ever really need to create beautiful and vivid colors within a world. The second game, Loader Larry, runs in 640x350 EGA mode, a higher resolution than you could ever possibly need for anything. SVGA (Super VGA) later united these ultra-high color depths with these ultra-high resolutions, but these games represent a time when these two pillars still existed in uneasy separation from each other on the cusp of their union.



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Oil's Well Statistics For LateBlt

At present, LateBlt has 1,018 views spread across 1 video for Oil's Well, and less than an hour worth of Oil's Well videos were uploaded to his channel. This is less than 0.21% of the total video content that LateBlt has uploaded to YouTube.