From Namco and Data East came the first NES game to come out in the US first and Japan second. It's also a really pretty awful pool game that feels absolutely nothing like a real pool table. Then again the market for this kind of game was literal boomers, so...
>>12563175unsurprisingly, boomers in the 80s were adults with spending money
This is indeed boomerslop.
>>12563175>that feels absolutely nothing like a real pool tableWould you please enlighten us how you would bring the "feel" of a real pool table to the NES?
>>12563298Not OP but really, no 8-bit system was going to get anything remotely realistic.
The best pool game on the system(s) is Konami's Exciting Billiard. Inspired by the movie The Huslter, you play against opponents with different personalities and playstyles and can bet against them. Great ball physics for an 8-bit game too.Sadly it only got a FDS release and no western release, and since the rest of Konami's "Exciting" sports series wasn't exactly great, I doubt it performed well even in Japan
>>12563326Soul
>>12563326>and since the rest of Konami's "Exciting" sports series wasn't exactly greatIn the case of Exciting Baseball, "horrifying" is the more suitable word.
>>12563175the Famicom version used a Namcot 109 mapper. although this was one of the only third party mappers to appear in NES carts, the US version of Side Pocket just used an UNROM board.
>>12563175the Japanese cover art had cute anime girls and we get this slop instead
>>12563358Nah, the western cover is better.
