Review #16 — Side Pocket

Back in ye older days of child Golden Cartage, I would at times go to a relative’s house to visit. In their basement was a Pool/Billiards table. In my very young eyes, owning a pool table was something the cool kids always had. The idea of Pool/Billiards always fascinated me as a kid as any game where you hit a ball with a stick to hit other balls in holes would. My family was not fortunate at the time to own one of these cool tables. We would later in my years get a pool table but that’s besides the point. So what’s a 90s kid to do when they don’t have a pool table to play on? Well do I have the video game for you! Let me talk to you all about a little gem of a game known as Side Pocket. Side Pocket, made by Data East back in 1986 is a top down pocket billiards game in arcades. However I would not know about it until seeing the port of the game on the SEGA Genesis years later in 1992. The SEGA Genesis version was the one I remember playing back then so I’ll mostly be talking about that port of the game. Don’t worry Super Nintendo fans, there was a port of this game for the SNES as well. Anyway, like I said, Side Pocket is a top down view pool game where you play pool, thanks to the power of modern gaming, as modern as 1992 will allow. The idea of poll is simple, hit the cue ball (that’s the white ball) with a Cue stick and hit other balls into the holes in the corners of the table and in the middle on the walls known as side pockets, ohhhh that’s why it’s called… nevermind. There are many ways to play pool with different rulesets. <a href="https://medium.com/@TheGoldenCartridge/review-16-side-pocket-4adb64ad7e81">Visit Now</a>