Which games?

[butterburp]

#10939

Curious what DOS pool games there are? The only ones I know of are Virtual Pool and some 8-ball shareware demo. There’s also Multimedia Pool, but that’s technically Windows 3.x. (That one’s fun, you can replace all the sound effects with your own nonsense)

Anyhows, this sounds like fun! I still play Virtual Pool 4, mostly to play non-pocket billiards, which I got hooked on after seeing Donald Duck in Mathemagic Land as a kid.

[TigerQuoll]

#10942

I had a really clunky CGA pool game called PC Pool when I was a kid.
But in looking for it just now I stumbled across Sharkey’s 3D Pool which kind of looks like if Virtual Pool had been made in the late 80s by EA!

[dr_st]

#10944

There is also Virtual Snooker for DOS – same engine as Virtual Pool – just snooker rules instead of straight pool/8/9-ball.

[firefyte]

#10964

Can’t forget all the named titles!
Jimmy White’s ‘Whirlwind snooker’ and Archer Maclean’s Pool

[Evil Taco]

#10996

Are there any zany or funky pool/billiards games for DOS? I think that would be an angle that would make me curious about trying out a pool game!

[Evil Taco]

#10998

There’s at least one recent DOS homebrew pool/billiards game: https://www.doshaven.eu/game/pooliard/

(Maybe the author would be an interesting guest on the episode?)

[Tijn]

#10999

This is one I’m definitely looking forward to checking out: https://www.mobygames.com/game/29969/pub-pool/screenshots/

Pub Pool, 1987

[Evil Taco]

#11002

Haha, nice, that’s a decently pleasant use of the infamous CGA palette!

[void]

#11004

I would like to suggest Arcade Pool. It was published by Team17.