Virtual Snooker (PC - CD - 98/95/DOS)

by Interplay

Product Features

• Virtual Snooker uses the exact same interface and graphics engine as its award-winning predecessor, Virtual Pool-and since Virtual Pool was a tour de force in playability, you can expect the same excellence here.
• You couldn't ask for a better interface for a pool game: how hard you hit the cue ball is determined by pulling back the mouse and then pushing it forward, emulating the motion of a pool cue.
• Virtual Snooker includes a comprehensive tutorial to acquaint you with all the basic snooker rules and terminology (why do they call it "potting a ball?")
• video clips of six-time world snooker champion Steve Davis that do an excellent job of teaching you the finer points of the game, from how English affects the cue ball and object ball, to how to set up consecutive shots (positional play).
• Also included on the CD is video footage of Steve Davis pulling off the first-ever televised 147 break, roughly the snooker equivalent of a 300 score in bowling. That clip alone is a tutorial in itself because it shows you the ideal way to play the game.

Product Details

• ASIN: B0019H1390
• Media: CD-ROM
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #68,923 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)

Product Description

Manufacturer's Description THE ULTIMATE SNOOKER SIMULATION: Enter the world of virtual snooker, a snooker game so realwe are sure it will improve your actual snooker playing. It has all the angles, all the shots of the real game - and more! Take a lesson in snooker techniques and tactics from 6 times world champion Steve Davis.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4.0 out of 5 stars Good for what it was back in the day, September 2, 2011

By 

Micheal Hunt (Hellbourne) - See all my reviews

= Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Virtual Snooker (PC - CD - 98/95/DOS) (CD-ROM)

Back in the days when I had this game, sometime around 1999 or so... this was a pretty good game that I picked up for a fairly cheap price. Sure, if you look at the graphics of it today, it won't look so pretty, or fairly old... but in the day, it was pretty good graphics. The game is obviously snooker... the table and balls where polygons, and the whole room/table could be spun around to use whatever angle you wanted. If you wanted to play like in angles from the screen shots, then that was by default, but you could zoom around and play birds-eye-view if you wanted to.

The controls where simple, use the mouse to look around and aim, then hold down, I think it was the right mouse button, and that would lock you in position to pull the mouse back to pull the cue back, then move it forward either slow or fast depending on how hard you want to hit the ball. The controls where easy, even my dad got the hang of it and he was in his late 60's at the time and pretty much computer illiterate.

On the CDROM it also contained videos of the guy on the cover, some famous snooker player I guess, who made a ... I forget the term, a perfect something or other game and shows the footage of him not missing a single shot for the whole time he played. I think there where more videos, it's been a while, but this game was fun during it's days, and if I still had this game around, I probably would still enjoy playing it now and again.

Unfortunately I gave the game to someone and never got it back, so I am unable to confirm if this game will install with XP/Vista or if it does work with DOS emulators or not. But be weary that some sellers ask ridicules amounts of prices for these things just because they are no longer in production, for a game like this, the currently 5 used asking 3.99 for it sound reasonable... the ones asking more then 40 are dreaming.