Cue sports (sometimes written cuesports), also known as billiard sports, are a wide variety of games of skill generally played with a cue stick which is used to strike billiard balls, moving them around a cloth-covered billiards table bounded by rubber cushions.
There are two main varieties of billiard games: carom and pocket. The main carom billiards games are straight billiards, balkline and three cushion billiards. All are played on a pocketless table with three balls; two cue balls and one object ball. In all, players shoot a cue ball so that it makes contact with the opponent's cue ball as well as the object ball.
The most popular of the large variety of pocket games are eight-ball, nine-ball, one-pocket, bank pool, snooker and, among the old guard, straight pool. In eight-ball and nine-ball the object is to sink object balls until one can legally pocket the winning eponymous "money ball". Well-known but waning in popularity is straight pool, in which players seek to continue sinking balls, rack after rack if they can, to reach a pre-determined winning score (typically 150).
Related to nine-ball, another well-known game is rotation, where the lowest-numbered object ball on the table must be struck first, although any object ball may be pocketed (i.e., combination shot). Each pocketed ball is worth its number, and the player with the highest score at the end of the rack is the winner. Since there are only 120 points available (1 + 2 + 3 ? + 15 = 120), scoring 61 points leaves no opportunity for the opponent to catch up. In both one-pocket and bank pool, the players must sink a set number of balls; respectively, all in a particular pocket, or all by bank shots. In snooker, players score points by alternately potting red balls and various special "colour balls".
Simple 1500 Series vol.050 - The Billiards 2 is the sequel (or better an updated version) to The Billiards and the game features a new opponent CPU that makes the game more difficult, there are also different game modes like Nine Ball, Eight Ball, Rotation, etc.
Manufacturer's description:
Easily enjoy an authentic billiards "THE billiards" appeared in the sequel. And pursues an interest in the pool than previous work, personality / thinking of the CPU, such as the difficulty to power up at all! Nine Ball, Eight Ball, Rotation, Basic, 14.1 Continuous, and recorded six games of Boulard.
Features:
- First person perspective.
- 3D graphics
- Cartoon graphics
- Billiards theme.
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