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
Joe Perry (snooker player) led 8–7 and had potted a colour to leave his opponent, David Gray, requiring a snooker – however, Perry's pot had also left him snookered on the final red, which he failed to hit, allowing Gray to clear the table and ultimately win the deciding frame with a total clearance of 139. This run left Perry provisionally fifth in the world, but he failed to win a match in the remaining five tournaments and dropped to 14th at the end of the season as a result. In 2005, he lost to eventual champion Ding Junhui. In the 2007/08 season, he