Lunar Pool (NES) Playthrough
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- Опубликовано: 25 янв 2024
- A playthrough of FCI's 1987 pool game for the NES, Lunar Pool.
Lunar Pool is exactly what it sounds like. It's a pool game set on the moon.
The game's single-player mode is the star attraction. There are sixty stages to tackle, and you start by choosing which you'd like to start on (complete them all to see the ending!) and the table's friction. With no friction, the balls will roll forever until they fall in a pocket or cause a scratch, and when the friction is set to 255, they'll behave as if they've been fused to the table.
The shape of the table and the placement of the balls changes with each round, and you begin the game with three spare cue balls (extra lives). You lose one whenever you pocket the cue ball or miss three consecutive shots, and you're awarded one bonus ball for completing a round, or two for doing so without missing a shot. Lose them all it's game over.
Lunar Pool is a lot of fun and easy to sink a load of time into. The mechanics are easy to grasp - you can't put any English on the ball, so shooting is as simple as aiming a cursor and timing your button press with the rise and fall of the power gauge - but the high skill ceiling and the friction option do a pretty good job of making it both accessible to newcomers and challenging for more experienced players.
The graphics aren't flashy, but they're clear and sharp, and the vaguely catchy, low-key music has a style that makes me think "Sam's Choice Diet Marble Madness." The presentation is nice, but in case wondering why Lunar Pool, a late 1987 release, looks and sounds like an early-gen NES game - it is! (I
The game was originally released on the PC88 and MSX in mid-1985 as "Lunar Ball," and the Famicom port, Lunar Pool, came out in December of the same year. It was already two years old when it showed up in North America, but like many of Nintendo's black box games, the game wore its age gracefully and held up against newer releases. It still holds up now, too. Lunar Pool was Compile's first NES title, and it was a good show of what we could expect from them on the console in the coming years.
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My mom, although in her 40's, played NES along with us.
Lunar Ball was one of her favorites.
Alongside Mappy, Othello, Door Door and Tetris.
So I'm not the only one who had to give up the controller for mom. Good to know😀
Low g pool played against lime and salmon-colored moonscapes - Lunar Pool is super 80s, and it's an excellent first showing for Compile on the NES.
Thanks for showcasing this game, it’s a great one. Also, it has an awesome cartridge label with two futuristic space dudes playing in a pool room with a neon glow and a window looking out onto a space station before DS9 was even a thing. Have a good weekend!
I'm sure SNES Drunk would call it a glorified "dad game" regardless, but fuck him--he doesn't understand the appeal of billiards as a living puzzle game.
I never understood diet, let alone zero, soda. Seltzer? Sure. "Sam's Choice Diet Marble Madness" is not how I would put down something just on the cusp of greatness. It's a COMPILE game--not Marble Madness but it doesn't have to be. It's also a very good first outing for a company, assuming they developed and released other games on other systems. I find it keenly fits the scene and doesn't wrack your pulse into high-gear. I will go for this music even if presented a chance to hear Marble Madness for the umpteenth time.
Also, I would never call a store brand product, not even Wal-Mart, a "cheap knockoff" because I take generic-branded prescription maintenance medicine and do not, for a moment, consider it a glorified tragedy that generic medicine costs less to produce, distribute and, yes, pay for.
By the way, have you ever tried Wal-Mart's regular cola? I mean, I haven't kicked back a cola in years since you never find a caffeine-free version, but I remember Sam's Choice going between Pepsi and Coke without being too acidic like the former and foaming with bad aftertaste like the latter. These days, I enjoy their root beer and cream soda. Just be wary about the ginger ale--it causes me sneezing fits, it's that dry. Schweppes' ginger ale tastes better and has fewer calories than Canada Dry.
But anyway, fuck SNES Drunk--he wouldn't know a good pool game if it sat on his face.
I remember renting this back in the day with my dad. He loved playing it.
I love this game! I remember playing with my cousin in 90s with 0 friction. Cannot stop laughing that day.
One of many games people own, rent, dowload, or found at a Goodwill on one of those Famiclone consoles/carts next to MUSCLE, Golf, that game involving a plumber in a land of mushrooms, and many more.
My first introduction to this game was a rental in early 1998. This and Mega Man 3 were the games I played that weekend. I would have owned both until I saw it at a yard sale for 2 dollars each around 2003. I play this game if ever I want to enjoy some futuristic billiard fun.
It’s a game super mario bros
What an amazing game! Played it not that much, but my family. Pretty adult people, played this game on evenings with friends. Drunk after party. But it was an exception, when they played my NES.
Good job as usual!
This is such a cool game, it’s like if Arkanoid and billiards had a baby.
Compile's NES outputs were great. My favorite being "Gun-Nac."
Don't think I've heard of this one, but I could see myself sinking time into it. The music isn't too bad, either.
Ha ha, I remember this a game well when I still kid with my parents and my brother
This really was fun for the whole family. We'd bring the NES into the living room so mom could play
Un juegazo que debiese estar en el Nintendo Switch Online.
I played this a lot around 2007 on an emulator knock off machine. So fun!
Loved this game
The chad version of billard 2008
Nice game 🎮 👏 👌 👍 💪 🙌 🎮 👏 👌 👍 💪 🙌
This game deserve remake with ball physics and same level
Looks more fun than Side Pocket. I still suck at these games though.
Legendary.
4:50 Z COOLLLL!!!!👍👍👍👍
Yeah, that's the Z in the Zanac logo.
I used to sorta hate this game, only until recently im starting to warm up to it. I still prefer Side Pocket tho.
VS Com mode is the funniest for me. Because if you don't have another player to play this game, you can compete with the computer by taking turns. Also it can be frustating since the CPU tends to miss the less possible.
Juego maravilloso. Especialmente en contra otra persona
nice
it's very easy to get 99 lives thanks to score multiplier especially at X20 you get extra life every X5 multiplier up to X35 and then every successive sink will give extra life and a multiplier increase all it takes to lose multiplier is either scratch a cue ball or miss a shot
These kids today would loose they're minds bc we didn't have cell phones or social media, we actually had to get together and ACTIVITY have fun.
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Wasn’t this on a lot of bootleg multicarts?
and on VCDs?
(yes it does exist)
Oh No! The God Awful "BILLIARD 2008" bootleg. Yes it was on a lot of bootleg mumticarts.
Played this game once & I did not enjoy it. Probably one of the most boring games I’ve ever played to be honest.