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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.
Bulldog Interactive is a British independent video games developer, established in 1999 with their central office located in Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leicestershire, England. Bulldog specializes in cue sports games and is best known for developing the Cue Club series of pool and snooker simulations.
Carom and snooker cues are more often hand-made, and are more costly on average than pool cues, since the market for mass-produced cues is only particularly strong in the pool segment. High-end hand-made, but non-custom carom and snooker cues are largely products of Europe and Asia, while their pool counterparts are mostly North American products.
Steve Davis Snooker simulates the cue sport snooker. Released under licence from 6-time Snooker World Champion, Steve Davis. The game is the first to feature a license of a professional snooker player, with later Jimmy White creating the Cueball series. CDS called the game the "ultimate successor" to their 1983 pool simulator, titled Pool. [5]
A complete set of snooker balls A sliding scoreboard, some blocks of cue-tip chalk, white chalk-board chalk and two cues A shot using a rest, allowing the player to reach farther down the table A standard full-size snooker table measures 12 ft × 6 ft (365.8 cm × 182.9 cm), with a rectangular playing surface measuring 11 ft 8.5 in × 5 ft 10.0 ...
The most globally popular of the large variety of pocket games are pool and snooker. A third, English billiards, has some features of carom billiards. English billiards used to be one of the two most-competitive cue sports along with the carom game balkline, at the turn of the 20th century and is still enjoyed today in Commonwealth countries
A player using a cue stick to push a billiard ball forward to move an object ball A cue stick (or simply cue, more specifically billiards cue, pool cue, or snooker cue) is an item of sporting equipment essential to the games of pool, snooker and carom billiards. It is used to strike a ball, usually the cue ball. Cues are tapered sticks ...
The Daily Telegraph reviewed the original World Snooker Championship game, commenting that whilst the game was a good snooker representation, Cueball 2, released 2 years prior was a "far more varied and interesting" game, and was "superior" "in every respect". [20]