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Eight Ball Deluxe was released as digital version in 1993 for MS-DOS and Macintosh, co-developed by Amtex and LittleWing and published by the former. [5] The game was a best seller in Macintosh gaming world and was a 1993 Best Simulation Game Finalist of the Software Publishers Association (USA) awards. [6]
The BCA publishes an annual rule and record book that incorporates the WPA world standardized rules for games such as nine-ball, eight-ball, ten-ball and straight pool, as well as rules for other games that are not presently the subject of international competition, such as one pocket, bank pool, cowboy pool, rotation, American snooker, and ...
Eightball pool can refer to two related but different games in the pool family of games: . Eight-ball, the version originating in the United States, and globally standardized by the World Pool-Billiard Association; uses striped and solid-colored sets of numbered balls
At Lucky Break Pool, play free online pool hall 8-ball with your friends! Chalk up your favorite pool cue, customize the billiards table, and chat with other players.
Eight-ball (also spelled 8-ball or eightball, and sometimes called solids and stripes, spots and stripes, [1] big ones and little ones, [2] or rarely highs and lows [3]) is a discipline of pool played on a billiard table with six pockets, cue sticks, and sixteen billiard balls (a cue ball and fifteen object balls). The object balls include ...
This category is for pool family of cue sports, including eight-ball, nine-ball, blackball, straight pool, and others. The main article for this category is Pool (cue sports) . Wikimedia Commons has media related to Pool (cue sports) .
American-style eight-ball arose around 1900, derived from basic pyramid pool. [1] In 1925, the Brunswick-Balke-Collender Company began offering ball sets specifically for the game using unnumbered yellow and red balls (in contrast to the numbered solids and stripes found in most pool ball sets), a black eight ball, and the white cue ball.
Expanding on the above, the !votes in the previous move request were based on a fundamental misunderstanding. "Eight-ball", with the hyphen, is a game, the name being short for "eight-ball pool", where the hyphen is correct because it's an adjective. However, the toy is modeled after the number 8 ball of a billiard ball set.