Game:

Oil's Well (1983)

Duration: 3:38

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This is a tool-assisted speedrun. For more information, see https://tasvideos.org/5569M
TAS originally published on 2023-09-15

Oil's Well is an arcade style game that was initially developed for Atari 8-Bit computers and was later ported over to various home computers and consoles such as the Apple II, Commodore 64, and ColecoVision. The game has similarities to Pac-Man and Snake, where the objective to to extract all the oil you can find with an extending drilling pipe while avoiding all sorts of hazards that live underground along with a few brought there by your competitors. Your pipe can suck up and destroy those hazards, but the pipe part is still vulnerable to them the entire time.

In this run, nymx ( https://tasvideos.org/Users/Profile/nymx ) completes a single set of levels and gets his stock certificate of 1000 shares as fast as possible.