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A nicely written, simple to play simulation game where you are an offshore installation manager trying to accumulate $100m in the shortest time possible by drilling for oil.

Played in chunks of one week at a time, there are two stages - the first involves navigating your supply vessel to the rig and allocating a weekly budget. The variables involved are few and this is no great task. A nice map of the North Sea is drawn.

You must then apportion your workforce of 200 to their tasks and set about moving the oil rig looking for oil by keyboard or joystick and pressing D for drill.

When all your allocated wells have been drilled, you are shown a balance sheet and you are returned to load up again for another week. I never got to the magic $100 million. The game is professionally presented and well error-trapped.

Various messages are displayed. My favourite: "You have fallen off the edge of the world". As a role-playing game, this is quite simple and it can become a little boring after a time.

D.W.J.