Virtual Pool

aka: Virtual Pool: Snooker

Released

1995 on Windows

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Developers

Celeris Inc.

Moby Score

7.4

#3,575 of 154K

Critics

78% (26)

Players

(60)

Ranking

#274 on DOS
#812 on PlayStation
#3,792 on Windows

Collected By

43 players

Genre: Educational
Sports
Strategy
Perspective: 1st-person
Top-down
Sport: Pool / snooker
Educational: Math / logic
Science

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Virtual Pool is the definitive pool simulation game that actually teaches novice players how to play and even promises to improve the game of the pool shark. Developed by a team of physicists and professional pool players, Virtual Pool brings the game to life with the highest degree of accuracy. Balls roll, skid, collide and move on a fully rendered 3D controlled pool table that mirrors reality.

Virtual Pool has revolutionary features that allow players to actually 'walk' around the table to check out their next shot, take a closer look, back away, look left or right and then line-up the shot like they would in a real game with a real table. This title also allows players to take an overhead view from above, something unavailable in a real pool game!

Taking game tips from World Champion pool player "Machine Gun" Lou Butera is guaranteed to improve the player's game. "Machine Gun" Lou will teach players over 30 famous trick shots the player can practice on their computer screen and then implement on a real table.

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Production Manager	Stephen Chaplin
Lead Programmer	RAS'PUTIN' Lee Morgenstern
Programmers	Matt Soares Stephen Chaplin
Simulation Modeling	RAS'PUTIN' Lee Morgenstern
Game Sound	Stephen Chaplin
Game Design	Stephen Chaplin RAS'PUTIN' Lee Morgenstern
Program Design	RAS'PUTIN' Lee Morgenstern
Multimedia Production Manager	Ed Ritchie
Tutorial and Game Intro Script	Ed Ritchie
Producer	Ali N. Atabek
Line Producer	Paul Kellner
Video Compression and Playback Technology	Paul Allen Edelstein
3D Background Graphics	Christopher Regalado Robert Nesler Michael J. Sherak
Opening Animation Sequence	Michael J. Sherak Fred Kaplan
Manual Writer	Kelly Newcomb
Manual Design & Layout	Definition
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Pre-release version

Pre-release versions of the 1995 PC version got leaked. The authorized production version of the game has the code marking ICD-120-0 through ICD-120-5 on each disc. The stolen version CD code is ICD-059-0. According to IPC the stolen version was "being offered for sale at some swap meets, computer fairs and small retail shops" and "contain a defective software program which will not operate properly."