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Articles in this list are all video games that have a playable Snooker mode; or are video games entirely based on the sport of Snooker. Subcategories This category has the following 3 subcategories, out of 3 total.
Some versions of snooker, such as six-red or ten-red snooker, are played with almost identical rules to the standard game but with fewer object balls, reducing the time taken to play each frame. [ 199 ] [ 200 ] The Six-red World Championship , contested annually in Bangkok , Thailand, was a regular fixture on the World Snooker Tour between 2012 ...
Snooker 19 is a 2019 sports video game developed by Lab42 and published by Ripstone Games, based on the cue sport snooker. [1] The game was released on 17 April 2019 for Microsoft Windows , PlayStation 4 and Xbox One , with the Nintendo Switch version coming out on 23 August 2019.
World Snooker Championship 2005 received "mixed or average" and "generally positive" reviews, according to review aggregator GameRankings. [8] [9] [10] [11]Eurogamer scored the console version highly with a 8/10 score, saying "it's a snooker game that gets pretty much everything spot on", [7] but would later rate the PSP version lower at 6/10.
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]
Critical reception for the game was generally high, with Zzap! magazine scoring the Commodore 64 game at 79% [13] commenting "Steve Davis Snooker is the best version of the sport I have ever seen on the 64, with its excellent approach and options helping make it so if you're a snooker fan or you want to try something different from your everyday shoot em up, then this makes a worthy and ...
The game features a tournament mode, practice mode, quick game, two-player head-to-head, and a bonus 'slam' mode where the balls can be hurled around with the mouse. Different rules are available including eight-ball , nine-ball , speed pool , killer and snooker , with an option to play snooker with either fifteen or ten reds.
Jimmy White's 'Whirlwind' Snooker is a video game designed and produced by Archer Maclean, released by Virgin Games in 1991 for the Amiga, Atari ST, and IBM PC compatibles (later for the Mega Drive). A port for the Atari Lynx was planned but never released. [2] 'Whirlwind' Snooker is a realistic snooker simulator.