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It was the early \u201870s and I was done with the \u201ckids games\u201d of my youth.\u00a0 Chutes & Ladders, Sorry, and a colorful deck of Go-Fish cards sat gathering dust on the shelf while I fed my infatuation with grown-up board games such as Monopoly and Clue. Then my parents put one of the most awesome games I\u2019d ever seen under the Christmas tree.\u00a0\u00a0 It was unlike any game I\u2019d ever played before and it still intrigues me today.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0A 3-dimensional wonder, it was one of the most mechanically interactive board games of the time, no batteries required. It was King Oil. King Oil was exactly what its name implied.\u00a0\u00a0 You bought properties, you drilled for oil, and you tried to get rich. An innovative game board randomized the drill holes on every property each game so you\u2019d never know if you were about to hit a gusher, or sink your money down a dry hole. But the fun didn\u2019t end there.\u00a0 \u00a0Drawn cards would define such things as oil depletion allowances, production capacity, and (yikes!) fire damage.\u00a0 Additionally, once you had some producing wells on your property, you could build pipelines to adjacent properties and siphon off your competition\u2019s
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