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Game Overview

Sharkey's 3D Pool on MS-DOS was one of those games that made you forget you were staring at a chunky CRT monitor. The second you booted it up, you were greeted with this weirdly immersive low-poly pool table—complete with that slightly-too-dark lighting that made it feel like a real dive bar. The controls? Surprisingly intuitive. You'd hold down a key to adjust your shot power, nudge the angle with arrow keys, and pray you didn't scratch on the 8-ball.

What I loved was how it didn’t try to be fancy. No career mode, no unlockable pool cues—just you, the table, and that satisfying clack when balls collided. The physics weren’t perfect, but they were good enough that you could actually pull off bank shots if you squinted hard enough. And the hot-seat multiplayer? Absolute chaos, especially when your friend "accidentally" bumped the table mid-shot.

It’s janky by today’s standards, but there’s something about the simplicity that modern pool games just don’t capture. You can practically smell the stale pizza and hear the quarters rattling in your pocket.

Each game uses different controls, most DOS games use the keyboard arrows. Some will use the mouse , "Alt" ,"Enter" and "Space bar".