Eight Ball Pool is heavily based on Bally's Eight Ball. Released in 1977, Eight Ball was the best selling game of its time.  Although I've never played the game, I've read a little about it and I always liked the layout of the playfield. Eight Ball was one of the first Solid State games from Bally but I decided to make Eight Ball Pool an electro-mechanical pinball machine.
To simulate a electro-mechanical pinball I changed the flipper speed and bumper strength to make the game a little bit slower. All the sounds are electro-mechanical.
This is a beta version, but I think the game is very playable.

THE RULES

-Making all solid balls 1 thru 7 in any order lights the eight ball at the black target.
-Hitting the eight ball will light Extra Ball at the red target.
-Then you have to make the striped balls 9 thru 15 in any order to light the eight ball again.
-Hitting the eight ball target this time will light Special at the red target.
-The right loop (called Bank Shot) awards the following:
100 points, 300 points, 1000 points, Kick Back, Spot Ball and Double Bonus.
-The eight ball can only be spotted hitting the eight ball target.

You need the latest version of Visual Pinball to run this game. Get it at www.visualpinball.com

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Bomb Squad