Oil's Well (Colecovision)
You're rich...maybe. Geologists have just located one of the largest oil deposts 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.
More information can be found in the manual.
Toolsc.f. Used
- BizHawk 2.9.1
BrunoVisnadi
I don't want to disrespect BrunoVisnadi, but this TAS was made from scratch and beats [3084] Coleco Oil's Well by BrunoVisnadi in 03:27.64 by 208 frames. Most of it doesn't follow the same routing, which is what eventually helped me to get ahead. I applaud you for making such a "Hard to beat TAS". You are truly a great asset to this community and not an easy person to beat.
Improvements
| Round | Round Cuts | Total Cuts |
| 1 | -8 | -8 |
| 2 | -57 | -65 |
| 3 | -16 | -81 |
| 4 | -71 | -152 |
| 5 | -17 | -169 |
| 6 | -34 | -203 |
| 7 | -5 | -208 |
| 8 | 0 | -208 |
Level 8 really surprised me that we had two different routes, and was still able to match the same time. It was truly the hardest level of the 8 existing ones.
Effort In TASing
When I did the Coimmodore 64 game, last year, I started to create the Colecovision version. I don't know why I didn't look earlier, but I finally decided to check if a TAS already existed for this game. Well, I found one and I quickly stopped after I saw the name BrunoVisnadi on it. It has been my experience with any TAS from BrunoVisnadi, that no frame is left behind. Well, just recently, I was watching the existing TAS and saw that a movement was not being done, as in my C64 version. I decided to check it out and was able to find 8 frames off of the first level. This prompted me to going through the entire game, as I saw the ability to make cuts.
Difficulty and Ending Choice
This game is played on the hardest level called Premium.
This game has a clear ending. There is a successful "Stock Certificate" message for completing 8 different levels.
eien86: Claiming for judging.
eien86: Yep, that's oil, alright.
This is another port of this curious game (see [5569] C64 Oil's Well by nymx in 03:27.47). This movie improves on the current movie ([3084] Coleco Oil's Well by BrunoVisnadi in 03:27.64) by almost 3 seconds thanks to better routing. The movie looks optimized and makes for an entertaining watch.
Accepting to standard
Spikestuff: Oil's Well that ends well.