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Cue Club, is a sports simulation video game series developed by Bulldog Interactive. The games in the series focus on delivering a realistic interpretation of pool and snooker . The original title was released on Microsoft Windows on 10 November 2000, with a sequel entitled Cue Club 2 arriving on 4 July 2014, on the same platform.
A successor to the game, called Maximum Pool, was released for Microsoft Windows and Dreamcast in 2000. On 16 August 2007 Sierra shut down the public pool game servers used by Cool Pool . "Online Forever" is a project started at PAuth.com which aims to keep Cool Pool running online, [ 5 ] [ 6 ] though that has since also shut down.
A full-size snooker table set up for a game (from Snooker) Image 6 A set of standard carom billiard balls, comprising a red object ball , one plain white cue ball , and one dotted white cue ball (replaced in modern three-cushion billiards by a yellow ball) for the opponent (from Carom billiards )
Kelly pool is a rotation game, which means that the lowest-numbered ball on the table must be contacted by the cue ball on every shot. [7] No safeties are called in kelly pool; the legal pocketing (i.e., with no foul committed on the same stroke ) of the lowest-numbered ball on the table permits and requires the shooter to continue play. [ 7 ]
Racking a game of three-ball with the standard fifteen-ball triangle rack. Three-ball (or "3-ball", colloquially) is a folk game of pool played with any three standard pool object ball s and cue ball. The game is frequently gambled upon. The goal is to pocket (pot) the three object balls in as few shots as possible.
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
Game being played at Fairchild Air Force Base. Crud is a fast-paced game played on a snooker table (or, if unavailable, a billiards table), usually on military bases in several countries. [1] While the sport uses a billiards table and two balls, no cues are used. [2] The game's origins are not precisely known.
Virtual Pool was voted the Best Sports Game of 1995 by PC Gamer US [34] and the 1995 Game of the Year by Games magazine. [35] Virtual Pool 2 was a finalist for the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences ' 1997 Personal Computer Sports Game of the Year award, [ 36 ] which was won by FIFA: Road to World Cup 98 .