New Colecovision game discovered! (With screenshots)

**Seaquest** · 01-02-2011, 11:56 AM

The Cat S.O.S game (Caterpillar scheduled oil sampling game)along with a colecovision was given to every cat dealership in 1983 to support the S.O.S. program. The customers would play it while waiting in the lobby. The game was made by the company Nuvatec. It was never sold commercially and could only be found exclusively in cat heavy equipment dealerships. My dad (who worked at cat) found that they were about to discard of both the game and the console so he saved it and gave it to me to add to my collection.
The game consists of a bulldozer that rides around and pushes dirt. Each dirt pile represents a "job". To keep from exploding you have to send in oil samples to the cat dealership ,then you will be told if the oil is good or bad. If you fail to do this occasionally your oil will go bad and your bulldozer will explode. To clean the oil you have to go to the cat dealership. The goal of the game is to make the most money from finishing "jobs".

I am pretty sure I have one of the last copys left in existense. If anyone knows anything about the value or has any questions please send me a message. Thanks!

**Steve W** · 01-02-2011, 12:22 PM

I've never heard of this one. It looks pretty simplistic. Almost like a TI-99/4A Extended BASIC game.

**swlovinist** · 01-02-2011, 12:58 PM

It is amazing what surfaces over the years. Congrats, and thank you for sharing

**InsaneDavid** · 01-02-2011, 01:38 PM

That's pretty damn cool.

**Greg2600** · 01-02-2011, 07:27 PM

Wow that's pretty amazing. Did your father get a hold of this recently or was it back then? I have heard of this game before, although any information known has been extremely vague. It was on one of these common forums, can't remember where. There was more skepticism that the game had even existed than there was information on it. Many people I think assumed it was Oil's Well that Cat was using, not a different game.

You may not have the last remaining copy, but you're probably the first person ever to come forward with one. Obviously it would be great to have the game dumped to a rom, for preservation sake. My guess is the value would be pretty strong, though I don't know what that would be since this might be one of a kind.

PS: I see that you Seaquest had posted about this back in May, and as I thought then, you weren't joking. Ha ha.

**PingvinBlueJeans** · 01-02-2011, 09:12 PM

Originally Posted by Seaquest

The game was made by the obscure company Nuvatec.

While they're certainly not well known, Nuvatec isn't really that obscure. Although they never published any games themselves, they developed numerous titles for Coleco.

http://gdri.smspower.org/wiki/index.php/Nuvatec

Originally Posted by Greg2600

Many people I think assumed it was Oil's Well that Cat was using, not a different game.

That's exactly what I was thinking.

Nice find.

**God-Zilla** · 01-02-2011, 11:16 PM

Thanks for sharing the information, I had never heard of this before! I hope, at the very least, that the rom is archvied so it is not lost to the ages.

**yurkie** · 01-03-2011, 08:24 AM

Awesome find. Hope you decide to dump the cart. I would love to play this game. Thank you for sharing the pictures and information!

**Seaquest** · 01-03-2011, 11:23 AM

Originally Posted by Greg2600

Wow that's pretty amazing. Did your father get a hold of this recently or was it back then? I have heard of this game before, although any information known has been extremely vague. It was on one of these common forums, can't remember where. There was more skepticism that the game had even existed than there was information on it. Many people I think assumed it was Oil's Well that Cat was using, not a different game.

You may not have the last remaining copy, but you're probably the first person ever to come forward with one. Obviously it would be great to have the game dumped to a rom, for preservation sake. My guess is the value would be pretty strong, though I don't know what that would be since this might be one of a kind.

PS: I see that you Seaquest had posted about this back in May, and as I thought then, you weren't joking. Ha ha.

My dad just found the game about 4 years ago so it's a pretty recent discovery. I really don't know how to get the rom to the internet so if anyone has a suggestion I'd love to hear it.

**MachineGex** · 01-03-2011, 11:34 AM

Originally Posted by Seaquest

My dad just found the game about 4 years ago so it's a pretty recent discovery. I really don't know how to get the rom to the internet so if anyone has a suggestion I'd love to hear it.

I am sure there are a few guys on this forum that can help you with that. It would make a cool release. Good luck with all of it, great find!

**Ikrananka** · 01-03-2011, 11:45 AM

Originally Posted by Seaquest

My dad just found the game about 4 years ago so it's a pretty recent discovery. I really don't know how to get the rom to the internet so if anyone has a suggestion I'd love to hear it.

PM sent.

**sniperCCJVQ** · 01-03-2011, 04:53 PM

awesome!

time to dump that sucker!

**NIAD** · 01-03-2011, 08:50 PM

Originally Posted by Seaquest

My dad just found the game about 4 years ago so it's a pretty recent discovery. I really don't know how to get the rom to the internet so if anyone has a suggestion I'd love to hear it.

A card-edge reader will do the trick or an ADAM Computer with a program called CopyCart+ 2.0... but then you still have to know how to transfer the resulting file to a PC.

**Seaquest** · 01-05-2011, 06:00 PM

I'm in the process of dumping the cart! I'll keep you guys informed.

**Greg2600** · 01-05-2011, 07:04 PM

Many thanks!

**megasdkirby** · 01-05-2011, 07:09 PM

Man, this is going to be awesome!

Thanks so much, Seaquest!

**slapdash** · 01-06-2011, 12:43 AM

Neat +1. Sorry, just had to say it.

**Tempest** · 01-06-2011, 08:40 AM

Wasn't there something just like this found several years ago, only for a Nuclear Power Plant in Canada? Energy Quizz or something like that? Did it ever get dumped?

**megasdkirby** · 01-06-2011, 08:53 AM

Originally Posted by Tempest

Wasn't there something just like this found several years ago, only for a Nuclear Power Plant in Canada? Energy Quizz or something like that? Did it ever get dumped?

Oh, I never heard about that before. Do you have any links? Though if it was never dumped, "AtariAge" comes to mind for some reason.

**Bill Loguidice** · 01-06-2011, 09:39 AM

Tremendous find! I never once heard of this! Just a heads up, I blogged about it.

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