Dallas Petrol – obscure Turkish Commodore 64 game rediscovered in 2018

A quick preservation update for an unusual Commodore 64 game called Dallas Petrol, highlighted to GTW thanks to Tanaydin Sirin.

Dating from around 1985 and reportedly created by Alp Kaan Akal, Dallas Petrol was a Turkish-language strategy game where players competed in the oil industry, buying wells, drilling equipment and tankers before attempting to make their fortunes selling oil. Players could also sabotage rivals, including blowing up their oil wells!

One particularly interesting feature was the game’s use of Turkish speech, with spoken instructions and announcements during play.

Although not an unreleased game as such, Dallas Petrol had become rather obscure over the years until a copy was located and shared by members of the Turkish Commodore community in August 2018.

Tanaydin recently got in touch to highlight the game to us, in case it was still missing from any of the major Commodore 64 databases. We thought it was worth a quick mention to help raise awareness of this unusual title and its earlier preservation.

With thanks to Tanaydin Sirin for highlighting the game, and to the Commodore.gen.tr community for locating and sharing it.

https://www.commodore.gen.tr/forum/index.php?topic=16052.15