Side Pocket 3 (Japanese: サイドポケット３, Hepburn: Saido Poketto 3) is a Japan-exclusive pocket billiards video game for the Sega Saturn and PlayStation. Like its predecessor, Side Pocket 2, it features the in-game likeness of a real-life professional pool player. In this case, it's JPBA member, Kyoko Sone.[4] The game is the third and final installment of the Side Pocket series.
| Side Pocket 3 | |
|---|---|
 Sega Saturn cover art | |
| Developer(s) | Data East |
| Publisher(s) | Data East |
| Composer(s) | Gamadelic |
| Series | Side Pocket |
| Platform(s) | Sega Saturn PlayStation |
| Release | Sega Saturn Satakore PlayStation |
| Genre(s) | Cue sports |
| Mode(s) | Single-player Multiplayer |
Gameplay
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Unlike the prior installments in the Side Pocket series, Side Pocket 3 renders the pool room environment with 3D polygons. In spite of this, the table can still be viewed in a traditional, top-down fashion.
Play modes consist of: story mode,[4] training mode, trick game mode,[4] and versus mode. Game variants include eight ball, nine ball, rotation, 14.1 continuous, bowlliards, cutthroat, carom billiards, poker, pocket game (a homage to the original game), and yotsudama.
Reception
editWeekly Famitsu scored the PlayStation version at 25 out of 40, claiming that it was more or less the same as its Sega Saturn counterpart.[5]
Brazilian magazine Ação Games gave the Saturn version 8 out of 10.[6]
See also
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References
edit- ^ [セガハード大百科] セガサターン対応ソフトウェア（ライセンシー発売） (in Japanese). Sega Corporation. Archived from the original on March 12, 2009. Retrieved April 25, 2013.
- ^ 発売中のゲーム (in Japanese). Data East Corporation. Archived from the original on March 4, 2000. Retrieved April 25, 2013.
- ^ サイドポケット3 (in Japanese). Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. Archived from the original on April 25, 2013. Retrieved April 25, 2013.
- ^ a b c サイドポケット３ (in Japanese). Data East Corporation. Archived from the original on December 24, 1997. Retrieved April 25, 2013.
- ^ "サイドポケット3 [PSP] / ファミ通.com" (in Japanese). Enterbrain, Inc. Archived from the original on June 27, 2013. Retrieved April 25, 2013.
- ^ "Ação Games".