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Reviews for Video Pool (#5566)

Review by The Dean of Games on 11 Apr 2019 (Rating: 4)

1985 Oxford Computer Publishing (UK)
by James Hutchby

This is an old Pool game, it looks very simple by today's standards, but is in fact a very good Pool simulator. Yes, there are better, but this one was revolutionary in it's day.
If you are unfamiliar with games like this it may take a while to get use to the games mechanics but once you understand what to do you'll be like a fish in water.

Review by YOR on 09 Apr 2021 (Rating: 3)

Another one I swear I already did. This is alright, it's fine as a pool game and you can mix up the gameplay like have them pot in numerical order for instance. But I have personal grievances with this game. Firstly the controls are awkward as hell, when I move left it moves right then turns left and vice versa, I did not like these controls at all. Secondly I potted a ball into a x6 and then potted the cue ball and the score counted, I feel it shouldn't count. Like if I pot a nine ball to win then pot the cue ball with it doesn't count, if I pot the pink ball plus the cue ball I don't get my six points added to my break, so that score shouldn't have counted yet it did. It's not a bad game, in fact it's a nice game, but it wasn't a fun game because of these faults that personally annoyed me and got me a bit mad.