With American Pool, publisher Mud Duck brings a budget-priced virtual 3D billiards presentation with three modes of gameplay to the PlayStation. In Training mode, players learn the controls and various pool techniques by solving tasks and problems, while Pocket Game mode offers five types of pool including 9-Ball, 8-Ball, Basic, Rotation and 14-1 Rack. The final mode, Pool Contest, is a 9-Ball bracketed tournament in which players create their own character and level up with special shots and techniques as they advance through the pairings.
Examples of special skills that can be earned include Low Tech (adds a visual line from the cue ball to facilitate aiming), Easy Shot (drops the speed of the power gauge by one-third), and Free Ball (allows the cue ball to be placed in any location). As players reach higher levels of skill, additional abilities are unlocked. Specific conventions used in American Pool include "Texas Express Rules" in 9-Ball games, the requirement to "call your shot" in 8-Ball, and the loser of b
Take on the world in 10 different events. Compete in two forms of Ski Jumping (K=90 and K=120), Alpine Skiing Downhill, Freestlye Skiing Moguls, Short Track 500 (skating), Figure Skating, Snowboard G Slalom, Snowboarding Halfpipe, Biathlon, and the Luge.
You can compete in trials of each event, the competition of all 10 events, or in excite mode. Try for medals from each event. See if you can come in first in all events, and then try to beat your own records.
Events require pressing buttons quickly for speed, pressing buttons in the right order at the right time to do tricks, and turning. The Figure Skating event is very much like the Dance Dance series of games.
Muscle Ranking: Kimeru! Kiseki no Kanzen Seiha is a Sports game, developed by Jupiter Multimedia and published by Konami, which was released in Japan in 2001.
With Anstoss Action, a football simulation followed in 2001, the data of which can be integrated into Anstoss 3 to Anstoss 3 Action or A3 Action for short (comparable to EA Sports' “Football Fusion” technology).
However, Anstoss Action could not really prevail against the competition from Electronic Arts and caused Ascaron's financial difficulties due to high development costs, which culminated in the first bankruptcy.
Gianluca Vialli's European Manager is a soccer management simulation in which the user embodies both the manager and coach of a football team, but with tactical as well as economical duties and responsibilities.
An add on pack for Links 2001. Included are four new Links courses (Thanksgiving Point, The Canyons Course at Bighorn, Pelican Hill 2001 version, and Banff Springs 2001 version), over 350 objects for use in the course designer, two tour players (Mike Weir and Keith Clearwater), and a Links LS course converter (this is needed to convert courses from previous versions of Links LS to Links 2001 format. There is a total of 36 courses this utility supports.)
Disney's Extremely Goofy Skateboarding is a skateboarding game with mechanics similar to the Tony Hawk's Pro Skater series, but aimed at younger players. Two Disney characters, Goofy and Max, can compete in 4 worlds with 3 levels each.
In Barbie Team Gymnastics the player helps Barbie, Chrissie, Teresa develop and perfect their routines on for different pieces of apparatus, the vault, the beam, the uneven bars and the floor. The girls practice until they are good enough to compete in various contests and hopefully qualify for the Nationals.