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Ground billiards is a modern term for a family of medieval European lawn games, the original names of which are mostly unknown, played with a long-handled mallet (the mace), wooden balls, a hoop (the pass), and an upright skittle or pin (the king).
Cue sports are a wide variety of games of skill played with a cue, which is used to strike billiard balls and thereby cause them to move around a cloth-covered table bounded by elastic bumpers known as cushions. Cue sports are also collectively referred to as billiards, though this term has more specific connotations in some varieties of English.
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
Virtual Pool 3 was released in 2000 for PC, but was later ported to the PlayStation and PlayStation Network. VP3 featured snooker , carom and billiards games in addition to pool. The game, endorsed by women's world champion Jeanette Lee , was released and distributed by Interplay Entertainment and Global Star Software .
A sequel to the game, originally announced at E3 in 2001, [21] known as Jimmy White's Cueball World, was released exclusively for the PC in 2001. [22] Jimmy White would later put his name to pool video game Pool Paradise in 2004, [23] and Jimmy White's Snooker Legend in 2008. [24]
PC Gamer 8.5/10 [ 15 ] Virtual Pool 3 was mostly very well received by critics, with an average score of 85% at GameRankings , [ 10 ] which makes it the highest rated billiards game on Windows , as of 2007. industry standard video game aggregator website Metacritic also scored the game well, at another franchise high rating of 82 out of 100.
Real Pool, known in Japan as EX Billiards (EXビリヤード, Ekkusu Biriyādo), and in Europe as International Cue Club, is a video game developed by Astroll for the PlayStation 2. This is a retooling of a Microsoft Windows and Mac OS game, also called Real Pool , which was published by WizardWorks in August 1998.
Virtual Pool was named the 57th best computer game ever by PC Gamer UK in 1997. [21] Virtual Pool was also voted the Game of the year by Games magazine in 1995. [ 22 ] The game was also awarded best simulation of 1995 from the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences, best Sports Game of 1995 from PC Gamer magazine and Best VR Game of 1995 from ...