History of snooker pool and pyramid pool. Life pool involved several colored balls used as both cue balls and object balls. In pyramid pool, there were 15 red balls and a white cue ball, and each player received one point per red ball potted. Along with the new games being developed, the table was taking steps toward its current state. Black pool was the next version created. Black pool was similar to pyramid pool, except that the black ball from life pool was added to the game and could be potted for more points. In 1875, at the British Army Officer's Mess in
Snooker (video game) can be selected using the space bar and cursor keys respectively. The limited colour selections of the home computers of the time (often limited to 8 colours) along with the memory sizes (the VIC-20 version ran in less than 6K of RAM) meant the user experience was limited compared to more modern implementations. There were also other games simply titled "Snooker" for the ZX Spectrum, including one release by Microbyte and Artic Computing Ltd also in 1983. The games were followed in 1984 by Steve Davis Snooker, and Steve Davis World Snooker in 1985. The game received a mention in