Steve Davis Snooker was also an unofficial sequel to CDS Software's 1983 Pool simulator, called "Pool." "Steve Davis Snooker" allows players to play against themselves, or against a human opponent in either Snooker, or Pool. However, there is no opponent AI. The game could be controlled by either a Joypad or a Cursor and Keyboard control scheme. The game has two different modes, with a "short game" (a game of Ten-Red Snooker similar to power snooker), or "long game", a game of traditional fifteen-red Snooker. The Atari game's box art boasts that the game has a "trick shot edit mode", "accurate spin", and
Six-red snooker feature shorter frames, due to fewer red balls. Other formats are being considered as well. It was hoped that the format would revive the popularity of snooker as a spectator sport, in the same way Twenty20 has done to cricket. Jimmy White said that six-red snooker could be one way of helping boost the game's popularity. Ali Carter also said he would be interested in playing the format. The first international tournament in this format was contested in July 2008, with Ricky Walden defeating Stuart Bingham in the final. A six-red tournament was held during the 2009 World Snooker Championship