Minnesota Fats: Pool Legend
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Minnesota Fats: Pool Legend (released for the Japanese Sega Saturn under the title Side Pocket 2) is a Sega Mega Drive/Genesis and Sega Saturn pocket billiards
(pool) game featuring famed billiards player Minnesota Fats
(as portrayed in "real-life" form by Rudolf Wanderone). It was released as a sequel to Data East's earlier success, Side Pocket
. The object in the game is to defeat the AI
-controlled competitors in the game. The player can also take on another human player in order to prove his worthiness at the pool table.
Pocket billiards
Pool, also more formally known as pocket billiards or pool billiards , is the family of cue sports and games played on a pool table having six receptacles called pockets along the , into which balls are deposited as the main goal of play. Popular versions include eight-ball and nine-ball...
(pool) game featuring famed billiards player Minnesota Fats
Minnesota Fats
Rudolf Walter Wanderone, Jr. was an American professional pocket billiards player, best known as "Minnesota Fats"...
(as portrayed in "real-life" form by Rudolf Wanderone). It was released as a sequel to Data East's earlier success, Side Pocket
Side Pocket
Side Pocket is a multi-platform series of pocket billiards simulator video games produced principally by Data East in beginning 1986...
. The object in the game is to defeat the AI
Artificial intelligence
Artificial intelligence is the intelligence of machines and the branch of computer science that aims to create it. AI textbooks define the field as "the study and design of intelligent agents" where an intelligent agent is a system that perceives its environment and takes actions that maximize its...
-controlled competitors in the game. The player can also take on another human player in order to prove his worthiness at the pool table.