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- Players23 ratings
1985 · Expanded edition · Compile · Sports · Arcade
Lunar Pool
Nintendo console exclusiveExpanded edition
Lunar Pool is the first advanced home video billiards game ever. Never before has the player been able to choose among 60 different "tables." Jump around to your favorite, or master each stage consecutively. Your score is kept automatically.
- Released
- 5 December 1985
- Platforms
- MSXNESWii
- Genres
- SportsArcade
- Developers
- Compile
- Publishers
- FCID4 Enterprise
- Modes
- MultiplayerSingle-player
- Perspective
- Bird view / Isometric
- Themes
- Action
About
Lunar Pool (known as Lunar Ball (ルナーボール, Runā Bōru) in Japan) is a sports video game. It was developed in 1985 by Compile for the NEC PC-8000 series (in Japan), the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES, in Japan, North America, and Europe), and the MSX (in Japan), and re-released for the Wii on the North American Virtual Console on October 22, 2007. The game combines pool (pocket billiards) with aspects of miniature golf. The object is to use a cue ball to knock each object ball into one of the pockets on pool tables of various shapes.
The game offers sixty levels, and the friction of the table is adjustable. Lunar Pool was distributed by Pony Canyon in Japan and Fujisankei Communications International for the rest of the world.
Keywords
- billiards
- virtual console
- wii virtual console
Media
The articlegameplay, story, development, reception
Gameplay
Lunar Pool is played on virtual pool tables of different shapes, some containing obstacles. The player must shoot the cue ball to knock other colored object balls into the pockets. One life is lost whenever the player either fails to pocket an object ball on three consecutive shots or pockets the cue ball. Completing a level awards one extra life, or two if the player has pocketed at least one ball on every shot.
The value of each ball is determined by its number and the displayed "Rate" value, which starts at 1 and increases after every shot where the player pockets at least one ball. Failing this resets the Rate to 1. Bonus points are awarded for completing a level without a miss.
Releases by platformdates and regions as published
Editions and related releases
- Part of
- Lunar Ball
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Collections2 collections
Platform libraries
- Nintendo Entertainment System gamesLicensed games
Publishers
- Virtual Console games for WiiTitles › Nintendo Entertainment System / Family Computer
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