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
SeriesSide Pocket
Platform(s)Sega Saturn
PlayStation
ReleaseSega Saturn
Satakore
PlayStation
Genre(s)Cue sports
Mode(s)Single-player
Multiplayer

Gameplay

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Side Pocket 3 during play (Sega Saturn version), showing an overhead view of the table.

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

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Weekly 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

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  1. ^ [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.
  2. ^ 発売中のゲーム (in Japanese). Data East Corporation. Archived from the original on March 4, 2000. Retrieved April 25, 2013.
  3. ^ 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.
  4. ^ 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.
  5. ^ "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.
  6. ^ "Ação Games".
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