May 13th, 2013 by Benj Edwards
The balls are moving and the cue ball hasn’t even hit them yet. Spooky.
[ From Video Games and Computer Entertainment, January 1991, back cover ]
Discussion Topic of the Week: In your opinion, what’s the best pool/billiards video game of all time?
Tags: 1991, advertisement, billiards, Data East, Game Boy, Nintendo, pool, Retro Scan, Side Pocket, VGCE
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The balls are moving and the cue ball hasn’t even hit them yet. Spooky.
May 14th, 2013 at 10:52 am
I liked the pool minigame in GTA San Andreas, but the physics were kind of wonky. Either that or there were magnets in the balls.
May 14th, 2013 at 12:42 pm
Side Pocket for the Sega Genesis is pretty cool. Great music, nice interface, but pretty difficult. I’ve never made in past the third stage.
May 14th, 2013 at 3:19 pm
The working pool table in Duke Nukem 3 is probably my favorite, if only because of the context.
May 14th, 2013 at 6:07 pm
For the record, my favorite billards video or computer game is Pool 1.5 for the Atari 800, which I immortalized in a 2011 Retro Scan. I still play it today sometimes. Heck, it’s probably one of my favorite Atari 800 games, and with so many strong games on that platform, that’s saying a lot.
May 15th, 2013 at 5:16 am
I’m going to have to go with the Imagic game for the Atari 2600 called
“Trick Shot”
It wasn’t a full pool game, but had various levels with harder and harder single ball pool shots you had to make.
Pretty fun, and a pretty advanced game for the good old 2600.
May 15th, 2013 at 2:03 pm
My favourite pool game was ‘Sharkey’s 3D Pool’ for DOS. A pretty amazing pool game for the time.
Check out the youtube video of this game: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXqNu5fYIYw
May 15th, 2013 at 3:36 pm
Wow, I remember Sharkey’s 3D Pool, Daniel. It blew my mind at the time.
May 17th, 2013 at 2:20 am
Ya,Sharkey’s 3D Pool was pretty impressive when it came out. It’s still a fun game to play. I play it occasionally in DosBox.
May 17th, 2013 at 4:37 pm
Lunar Pool for the NES. It might not have been realistic, but it was fun.
May 26th, 2013 at 1:05 am
Virtual Pool (for DOS back in my days and on dial-up!)!