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Side Pocket, the Glossary

is a pocket billiards simulation released as an arcade video game by Data East in 1986.^[1]

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Arcade video game

An arcade video game takes player input from its controls, processes it through electrical or computerized components, and displays output to an electronic monitor or similar display.

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Artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence (AI), in its broadest sense, is intelligence exhibited by machines, particularly computer systems.

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Atlantic City, New Jersey

Atlantic City, sometimes referred to by its initials A.C., is a Jersey Shore seaside resort city in Atlantic County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.

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Billiard ball

A billiard ball is a small, hard ball used in cue sports, such as carom billiards, pool, and snooker.

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Computer Gaming World

Computer Gaming World (CGW) was an American computer game magazine published between 1981 and 2006.

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Cue sports are a wide variety of games of skill played with a cue, which is used to strike billiard balls and thereby cause them to move around a cloth-covered table bounded by elastic bumpers known as.

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Data East

, also abbreviated as DECO, was a Japanese video game, pinball and electronic engineering company.

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An Easter egg is a message, image, or feature hidden in software, a video game, a film, or another — usually electronic — medium.

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Eight-ball

Eight-ball (also spelled 8-ball or eightball, and sometimes called solids and stripes, spots and stripes, big ones and little ones, or rarely highs and lows) is a discipline of pool played on a billiard table with six pockets, cue sticks, and sixteen billiard balls (a and fifteen s).

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Electronic Gaming Monthly

Electronic Gaming Monthly (EGM) is a monthly American video game magazine.

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Entertainment Weekly

Entertainment Weekly (sometimes abbreviated as EW) is an American digital-only entertainment magazine based in New York City, published by Dotdash Meredith, that covers film, television, music, Broadway theatre, books, and popular culture.

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First-person (video games)

In video games, first-person (also spelled first person) is any graphical perspective rendered from the viewpoint of the player character, or from the inside of a device or vehicle controlled by the player character.

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Future plc

Future plc is a British publishing company. It was started in 1985 by Chris Anderson. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index. Among its many titles are Country Life, Homes and Gardens, Decanter, Marie Claire, and The Week. Zillah Byng-Thorne was chief executive officer from 2014 to 2023, when she was replaced by Jon Steinberg.

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G-Mode

is a Japanese company that specializes in games for Java-compatible mobile phones.

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Game Boy

The Game Boy is a handheld game console developed by Nintendo, launched in the Japanese home market on April 21, 1989, followed by North America and Europe later that year.

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Game Gear

The is an 8-bit fourth generation handheld game console released by Sega on October 6, 1990, in Japan, in April 1991 throughout North America and Europe, and during 1992 in Australia.

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GamePro

GamePro was an American multiplatform video game magazine media company that published online and print content covering the video game industry, video game hardware and video game software.

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Iguana Entertainment

Iguana Entertainment, later known as Acclaim Studios Austin, was an American video game developer based in Austin, Texas.

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Intellectual property

Intellectual property (IP) is a category of property that includes intangible creations of the human intellect.

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International Data Group

International Data Group (IDG, Inc.) is a market intelligence and demand generation company focused on the technology industry.

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ISCO (videogame developer)

ISCO (イスコ), short for "Intelligent System Corporation" was a video game developer company, with many of its games subcontracted down to other developers.

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Jazz

Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues, ragtime, European harmony and African rhythmic rituals.

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Las Vegas

Las Vegas, often known as Sin City or simply Vegas, is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Nevada and the seat of Clark County.

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Los Angeles

Los Angeles, often referred to by its initials L.A., is the most populous city in the U.S. state of California.

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MIDI

MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) is a technical standard that describes a communication protocol, digital interface, and electrical connectors that connect a wide variety of electronic musical instruments, computers, and related audio devices for playing, editing, and recording music.

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Minnesota Fats: Pool Legend

Minnesota Fats: Pool Legend is a pool (pocket billiards) video game for the Sega Genesis and Sega Saturn. Side Pocket and Minnesota Fats: Pool Legend are cue sports video games, Data East video games and Sega Genesis games.

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Multiplayer video game

A multiplayer video game is a video game in which more than one person can play in the same game environment at the same time, either locally on the same computing system (couch co-op), on different computing systems via a local area network, or via a wide area network, most commonly the Internet (e.g.

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Museum of the Game

Museum of the Game, which includes the Killer List of Videogames (KLOV), is a website featuring an online encyclopedia devoted to cataloging arcade games past and present.

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Namco

was a Japanese multinational video game and entertainment company, headquartered in Ōta, Tokyo.

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New York City

New York, often called New York City (to distinguish it from New York State) or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States.

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Nine-ball

Nine-ball (sometimes written 9-ball) is a discipline of the cue sport pool.

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Nintendo

is a Japanese multinational video game company headquartered in Kyoto.

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Nintendo Entertainment System

The Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) is an 8-bit home video game console produced by Nintendo.

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Nintendo Power

Nintendo Power was a former video game news and strategy magazine from Nintendo of America, first published in July/August 1988 as Nintendo's official print magazine for North America.

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Nudity

Nudity is the state of being in which a human is without clothing.

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One-pocket

One-pocket is a pool game.

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Paul Newman

Paul Leonard Newman (January 26, 1925 – September 26, 2008) was an American actor, film director, race car driver, philanthropist, and entrepreneur.

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Pool (cue sports)

Pool is the name given to a series of cue sports played on a billiard table.

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Protagonist

A protagonist is the main character of a story.

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Rack (billiards)

A rack (sometimes called a triangle) is a piece of equipment that is used to place billiard balls in their starting positions at the beginning of a pocket billiards game.

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San Francisco

San Francisco, officially the City and County of San Francisco, is a commercial, financial, and cultural center in Northern California.

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Sega

is a Japanese multinational video game company and subsidiary of Sega Sammy Holdings headquartered in Shinagawa, Tokyo.

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Sega Genesis

The Sega Genesis, known as the outside North America, is a 16-bit fourth generation home video game console developed and sold by Sega.

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Side Pocket 3

is a Japan-exclusive pocket billiards video game for the Sega Saturn and PlayStation. Side Pocket and Side Pocket 3 are cue sports video games and Data East video games.

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Single-player video game

A single-player video game is a video game where input from only one player is expected throughout the course of the gaming session.

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Smooth jazz

Smooth jazz is a term used to describe commercially oriented crossover jazz music.

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Sports video game

A sports video game is a video game that simulates the practice of sports.

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Straight pool

Straight pool, which is also called 14.1 continuous and 14.1 rack, is a cue sport in which two competing players attempt to as many s as possible without playing a. The game was the primary version of pool played in professional competition until it was superseded by faster-playing games like nine-ball and eight-ball in the 1980s.

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Super Nintendo Entertainment System

The Super Nintendo Entertainment System, commonly shortened to Super Nintendo, Super NES or SNES, is a 16-bit home video game console developed by Nintendo that was released in 1990 in Japan and South Korea, 1991 in North America, 1992 in Europe and Oceania and 1993 in South America.

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Super Play

Super Play was a British Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES) magazine which ran from 1 October 1992 to September 1996.

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The Color of Money

The Color of Money is a 1986 American sports drama film directed by Martin Scorsese.

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Tom Cruise

Thomas Cruise Mapother IV (born July 3, 1962) is an American actor and producer.

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Total!

Total! was a video game magazine published in the United Kingdom by Future plc.

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Trick shot

A trick shot (also trickshot or trick-shot) is a shot played on a billiards table (most often a pool table, though snooker tables are also used), which seems unlikely or impossible or requires significant skill.

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Video game remake

A video game remake is a video game closely adapted from an earlier title, usually for the purpose of modernizing a game with updated graphics for newer hardware and gameplay for contemporary audiences.

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WonderSwan

The is a handheld game console released in Japan by Bandai.

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1987 in video games

1987 saw many sequels and prequels in video games, such as Castlevania II: Simon's Quest, Dragon Quest II, Final Lap, and Zelda II, along with new titles such as After Burner, Contra, Double Dragon, Final Fantasy, Mega Man, Metal Gear, Operation Wolf, Phantasy Star, Shinobi, Street Fighter and The Last Ninja.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Side_Pocket

Also known as Side Pocket (video game).

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Acclaim Studios Austin games

Marvelous Entertainment franchises

WonderSwan games

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