Thorsten Englert
Germany
Stuttgart
Germany
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5 Mitspieler
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Ravensburger Öl für uns alle - old version. Had the newer one as a child, we still have it at home. Superb game for the times. When I look at the flimsy tiny cards that this game comes with: component quality has come a long way since then. But my set is missing one card for the oil wells, the No. 4 one in Kuwait. Please please is someone able to help?
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Trade with oil och shipp it all over the world. Swedish game from the 50s that also was published in english.
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Detta trevliga oljespel finns i två utgåvor. En med algas grå remsa och en äldra utan remsan. Har dock bara bild på den nyare [ImageID= 74322]
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Holger F.
Germany
Germering
Bayern
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Publisher: Ravensburger
Language(s): German
Language dependence: Moderate in-game text - needs crib sheet or paste ups
Condition: good
Presence in Essen: all days
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Jim Sutherland
United Kingdom
(just) West of London
Middlesex
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Very good. Contents excellent. Print out of English rules included.
NOT SOLD
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Oil Rigging
(1960)
Sure, there are plenty of games celebrating rich oil tycoons, but they'd be nothing without hard working guys using giant wrenches to keep all the oil from just shooting out of the ground.
Tough Guy Bonus 1: Check out the teeth on on that drill bit. I'm pretty sure is the most manly industrial equipment of all time.
Tough Guy Bonus 2: If you can perform the roughest rigging work on site WHILE wearing a pink shirt, you are clearly the toughest guy on the crew.
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Brian Moore
United Kingdom
Bolton
Lancashire
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"Mine a Million gets Crude"
In "Öl für uns alle", players represent Oil Companies competing for oil-fields and oil-cargoes. Players move around the board in "monopoly manner". At any time, a player can ship a cargo of his oil to the world's major ports (the ships move on the world map which is at the center of the board), the profit depends on the current price for oil (1-4, depending on what the "Information cards" bring).
Players agree on a certain time limit and the richest player at that time wins the game.
160 Owners and 28 Comments:
"High nostalgic value, hence the high rating (well, we are all subjective here, aren't we?). I enjoy playing it very much" - Nirkit - Rated 8
"Technicly a 3 or even a 2 (simple dicemovement, too long...) but 4 points because of the nostalgic value...Own the 1960 version" - Peerchen - Rated 4
"Just not very good by today's standards." - Chris Barnard - Rated 3
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Michael
Germany
Velbert (near ESSEN)
Nordrhein-Westfalen
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Kai Bettzieche
Germany
Ladenburg
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of course, since the German box even shows BP machinists working at a pipeline ..
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Axel Guenter
Germany
Karlsruhe
Germany
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in die Jahre gekommen und entsprechend bespielt aber vollständig
Sweetener:
Auf Achse (alte Ausgabe)
Kampf der Kulturen (das Einmachgummi um die Dose fehlt mittlerweile. Material ist aber vollständig).
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Bart de Groot
Belgium
Turnhout
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When oil was still adventurous.
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Axel Guenter
Germany
Karlsruhe
Germany
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vollständig, guter Zustand, bespielt. Karton mit Lagerspuren - Ravensburger Ausgabe 1976
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Öl für uns all
Ravensburger / deutsche Ausgabe
Zustand: Spiel im guten Zustand, Außenkarton hat Gebrauchsspuren von der Lagerung
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Daniel Danzer
Germany
Stuttgart
southwest
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1960.
pegs like oil towers - more than tracking - this is more or less the interesting part of the game ...
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Tom Anderson
United States
West Jordan
Utah
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In at least six different language editions, and with 94 copies owned by Geeks, it actually earns a ranking on BGG, the last game on this Geeklist to do so. It features a real world map plus four detail map inlays. It is also one of the few to have a geologic stratigraphic column in the components, showing standard symbols for rock types (shale, sandstone, and limestone), and names for reservoir units from the real world.
“Players represent Oil Companies competing for oil-fields and oil-cargoes. Players move around the board in "monopoly manner" and can land on a variety of fields: "Information" (card drawing - a bit risk-cards type), "Memo" (card drawing - bonus-card-like), "Drilling" or "Helicopter" (allow to buy drilling rights), "Stock Market" (allows to buy stocks). Each time a player passes one of the 2 "production" fields, his oil fields produce certain quantities of oil (Kuwait producing most, Iraq second most, Qatar, Iran and Trinidad only little). When opting for drilling, the player token is moved from the board on a special drilling track which can either end with finding a well or with failure. At any time, a player can ship a cargo of his oil to the world's major ports."
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Noshrok Grimskull
Germany
Bremen
Bremen
With every breath the air grows stale, deathly cold winds howl and wail, raging thunder pounds like drums, when something wicked this way comes!
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I know I probably shouldn't raise this Geeklist from the dead, but I just had the idea to make a Geeklist with the exact same topic... And rather than starting a new list, why not continue this one?
Anyway, the oldest game in my collection is probably this one. At least it is the oldest one I have already added to my collection here on BGG. The are still games hidden away in closets, nooks and crannies that I have not included here and there might still be one around somewhere that is even older.
Shamefully, my copy of this game isn't complete anymore. I haven't checked it in detail yet, but I know it is not complete because there's only one ( ) ship left in the box (the white one).
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Kristian Samuelsson
Sweden
Gothenburg
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This could possibly be the single most dry and boring game I have ever encountered. A friend brought it over one evening, having found it somewhere, can't recall where. We tried it out just to see how bad it would turn out... and take my word for it, it was bad.
The theme is dry and the roll-to-move rules make for a boring game, where the only really interesting decisions you ever have to make is whether you should chance your money test-drilling that new site or if the risk of running bankrupt on any of the very arbitrary random event cards is too high.
I can't even recall whether we actually finished this game.
If this is (as the box proudly states) a very realistic simulation of the "great adventure" of 'modern' oil prospecting and drilling, then I pity my brother, who happens to be in that business!
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Darren M
New Zealand
Nelson
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Qatar
17 BGG members
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Teppo Saarinen
Finland
Turku
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Just a couple of blocks away from my home there's a tiny charity shop which I had visited once about a year ago and had almost completely forgotten about, but today while struggling through a blizzard to get back home from a dentist's I re-noticed it and popped in for a quick look around.
In the furthest, darkest corner, under some dusty shelves, there was a modest pile of puzzles and sandwiched between those was a copy of Oil, the Great Adventure. Box badly smashed up with lots of masking tape here and there, but the game itself was complete and only a little bit worn from playing, and included a plastic bag with two extra dice and playing pieces from some other game.
While scanning the bookshelf for anything interesting (I did buy a book called "A Jew in Finland" which looks rather interesting) I was subjected to some gospel preaching by the two ladies behind the till. It quickly degenerated into some confused memoirs of country life in the 50's and when they started to recount all the men they had picked up in some barn dance or other, I quickly paid my 1€ and left.
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Michael B.
Canada
Stratford
Ontario
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No gigantic oil tankers yet. Though the threat of Alaskan tankers coming down here always looms.
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Manuel Pombeiro
Portugal
Sao Joao do Estoril
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Betty Egan
Canada
Kingston
Ontario
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German edition. good codition. Lots of extra bits. 1 euro.
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Christian Koppmeyer
Germany
Kaarst
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Game is complete.
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Werner Bär
Germany
Karlsruhe
Baden
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There are several editions of this game. Some use only normal game boards and pawns. But in this edition, the oil storage and the exploration track is part of the box
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