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Made by: HesWare, IBM, Dale Jurich
Year: 1984
Category: Sports
Rating: 3/5
Size: 61.4 KB
Summary:
This is a nice little game to play with a friend. I say friend because playing against the computer is very difficult. There are four computer difficulties but even the easiest rarely misses. This means that unless you have someone around to play against, or if you want to play/practice by yourself, the game won't be much fun. The graphics may not be great but I found the physics to be very good, the strength of this (and any pool) game for me.
PC Pool Challenges is very flexible. While the graphics are what you would expect from 1984, the number of options and commands is not. First, you can play straight pool or eight ball with up to four players of which any computer players can be one of four difficulties. Aside from basic pool choices like direction, strength, and english, you can also do things like turn the pockets on and off, set the maximum speed at which a ball can be shot at, undo and redo, and many more.
Controls:
To move the cue (note: the red line is not the cue but the direction line) use the arrow keys and Home, Page Up, End, and Page Down to jump to a corner of the table. The key's position on the keyboard corresponds to which corner it will jump to. To access the options in game, press F1 or F2-F5 if you know which menu you want to open. F2, F4, and F5 will show you all the options and controls while F3 will show the game's statistics.
