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Four-ball billiards. Four-ball billiards or four-ball carom (often abbreviated to simply four-ball, and sometimes spelled 4-ball or fourball) is a carom billiards game, played on a pocketless table with four billiard balls, usually two red and two white, one of the latter with a spot to distinguish it (in some sets, one of the white balls is yellow instead of spotted).
The Virtual Pool series has received a moderate-to-good reception from critics, with Virtual Pool 3 the highest-rated game. [32] A GameSpot review of Virtual Pool Hall praised its game mechanics, particularly the ball-collision physics. [8] Virtual Pool 2 received a perfect score (100) from the German PC Player magazine. [33]
This is a sports game category that covers all computer games that emulate cue sports, such as pool or carom billiards. For snooker , see the subcategory, Category:Snooker video games . Subcategories
Five-pin billiards or simply five-pins or 5-pins (Italian: [biliardo dei] cinque birilli; [1] Spanish: [billar de] cinco quillas or casín), is today usually a carom billiards form of cue sport, though sometimes still played on a pocket table. In addition to the customary three balls of most carom games, it makes use of a set of five upright ...
Virtual Pool (assigned the retronym Virtual Pool 1 after the release of sequels) [1] is a 3D, first-person sports simulation video game released by Interplay Productions in 1995. It is the first of the Virtual Pool franchise of computer simulations of pool games developed by Celeris.
Full-size snooker tables are 12 feet (3.7 m) long. Carom billiards tables are typically 10 feet (3.0 m). Regulation pool tables are 9-foot (2.7 m), though pubs and other establishments catering to casual play will typically use 7-foot (2.1 m) tables which are often coin-operated, nicknamed bar boxes. Formerly, ten-foot pool tables were common ...
Pin billiards may refer to any of a fairly large number of billiard games that uses a pin, or a set of "pins" or "skittle s". The earliest form of billiards, ground billiards, was played with a single pin called the "king". Table billiards kept the king until the mid-18th century. There are billiard games played with as many as thirteen pins.
Next Generation reviewed the PC version of the game, rating it one star out of five, and stated that "If you're looking for a graphic adventure, buy an adventure. If you're looking for a pool sim, you're better off checking out Interplay's Virtual Pool ."