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
Virtual Snooker and move around the table to see different angles. The game boasts a higher frame rate than that of the original "Virtual Pool". In each release of the game, there is the ability to play locally networked multiplayer games on a Ethernet LAN, and to do basic online multiplayer between two remote computers via analog modems. The game features LAN capabilities, and the ability to connect two computers via modem for basic online multiplayer. As with other games in the series, "Virtual Snooker" was marketed with a guarantee that the simulator would improve the player's non-simulated game at a real