Black Gold
Oil Imperium is an Oil business strategic game. Every player has one month for dealing. He can buy or sell oilfields and storage tanks, offer oil on the world's markets, obtain statistics and studies, use…
Black Gold is a simulator developed by reLINE Software, released 31 December 1989 on Amiga, Atari ST/STE, Commodore C64/128/MAX and DOS.
What Black Gold is
Black Gold is a simulator game developed by reLINE Software and released in 1989. It was published by Electronic Zoo. It is available on Amiga, Atari ST/STE, Commodore C64/128/MAX and DOS.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Oil Imperium is an Oil business strategic game. Every player has one month for dealing. He can buy or sell oilfields and storage tanks, offer oil on the world's markets, obtain statistics and studies, use sabotage, employ detectives, drill for oil, lay pipelines and much more. Once the month has ended the next player begins his turn. When all the players have completed their deals, a graphical description in column form, showing the financial status of each company will appear.
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are business, fantasy and historical. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.
What it launched against
Black Gold launched on 31 December 1989, within three weeks of Fantasy World Dizzy, A Boy and His Blob: Trouble on Blobolonia, Denaris and Pipe Dream.
Released around the same time: Fantasy World Dizzy, A Boy and His Blob: Trouble on Blobolonia, Denaris, Pipe Dream.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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