History of snooker History of snooker The game of snooker is a cue sport which emerged in its modern form in the late 19th century, with roots going back to the 16th century form of English billiards. Billiards was popular among the British Armed Forces stationed in India. As billiards was only a two player game, new games such as life pool and pyramid pool were developed in order to accommodate more players. Eventually, these two games were combined to form snooker. Billiards was first played in the 16th century. It was known as a "gentleman's game" because of its popularity among royalty.
World Snooker Championship 2005 (video game) World Snooker Championship 2005 (video game) World Snooker Championship 2005 (Or, "WSC" 2005) is a sport simulation video game, released for the PlayStation 2, Xbox and PC on Apr 15, 2005, and in September, 2005 for PSP. The game was also later released for the PlayStation 3 on July 25, 2012. The game was the fifth entry of the World Snooker Championship video games series, which would run until 2011, and the first game to be named after the World Snooker Championship, changed from the World Championship Snooker series. The game featured player likenesses from the real world, including Stephen