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defrogITEM: BP once had its own board game in the 1970s, you know: Oil Strike, the object of which was to race rival oil companies to find and drill for oil in the North Atlantic. The first player to reach $120 million wins!
Of course, there are challenges:
How realistic!
PRODUCTION NOTE: Adjusted for inflation, today’s players would pay $2.9 million
CONSUMER ADVISORY: Not to be confused with the King Oil game by Milton Bradley.
Drilling fun for the whole family,
This is dF
Of course, there are challenges:
There are also risks like storms, which can hurt the productivity of your offshore operations, and, more presciently, catastrophic oil spills, which cost the player a small token amount of money to clean up and thereafter forget about.
One “hazard card” reads “Blow-out! Rig damaged. Oil slick clean-up costs. Pay $1million.”
One “hazard card” reads “Blow-out! Rig damaged. Oil slick clean-up costs. Pay $1million.”
How realistic!
PRODUCTION NOTE: Adjusted for inflation, today’s players would pay $2.9 million
CONSUMER ADVISORY: Not to be confused with the King Oil game by Milton Bradley.
Drilling fun for the whole family,
This is dF
