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If any of you don't know, i'm talking about the mini game on super monkey ball.
It has everything you could want from a pool game, simple controls, playability, monkeys in the balls...
I'd go so far as to say that if you had the option of using the control stick to determine cue power (move it straight back then forward to strike through the ball), and more games (8 ball, rotaion, a range of sets of rules (for geographic differences) ), oh, and some novelty selection of location, cloth color and stuff. Then that would be a pretty much perfect pool game.
Oh, but the bit at the start, where both players hit a ball up and down the table to decide who starts, the aim of that is (in regular pool at least, i don't know for certain that there isn't some dodgy varient for monkey billiards) to get the cue ball to finish closer to the head string (line across the top half of the table, the one you have the ball on to start the game), it would help a bit if they actually showed the headstring.
Then again, i don't know for certain that they haven't tweaked it, so that you aim for, say the top cusion. The headstring is the standard target, but with all the regional variations, you can't really pin down one definitive 'right' way. Except official competition rules.
Anyway, before i
It has everything you could want from a pool game, simple controls, playability, monkeys in the balls...
I'd go so far as to say that if you had the option of using the control stick to determine cue power (move it straight back then forward to strike through the ball), and more games (8 ball, rotaion, a range of sets of rules (for geographic differences) ), oh, and some novelty selection of location, cloth color and stuff. Then that would be a pretty much perfect pool game.
Oh, but the bit at the start, where both players hit a ball up and down the table to decide who starts, the aim of that is (in regular pool at least, i don't know for certain that there isn't some dodgy varient for monkey billiards) to get the cue ball to finish closer to the head string (line across the top half of the table, the one you have the ball on to start the game), it would help a bit if they actually showed the headstring.
Then again, i don't know for certain that they haven't tweaked it, so that you aim for, say the top cusion. The headstring is the standard target, but with all the regional variations, you can't really pin down one definitive 'right' way. Except official competition rules.
Anyway, before i
Anyway, before i...
Hmm, i know there was something else after that when i wrote the thing... i think loki must have stolen it to line his hamster cage.
Hmm, i know there was something else after that when i wrote the thing... i think loki must have stolen it to line his hamster cage.
Monkey Billiards is so very classy, I can only play with the COM though, as my brother likes Target...
Anyway, before I
Anyway, before I
Before you...?
If any of you don't know, i'm talking about the mini game on super monkey ball.
It has everything you could want from a pool game, simple controls, playability, monkeys in the balls...
I'd go so far as to say that if you had the option of using the control stick to determine cue power (move it straight back then forward to strike through the ball), and more games (8 ball, rotaion, a range of sets of rules (for geographic differences) ), oh, and some novelty selection of location, cloth color and stuff. Then that would be a pretty much perfect pool game.
Oh, but the bit at the start, where both players hit a ball up and down the table to decide who starts, the aim of that is (in regular pool at least, i don't know for certain that there isn't some dodgy varient for monkey billiards) to get the cue ball to finish closer to the head string (line across the top half of the table, the one you have the ball on to start the game), it would help a bit if they actually showed the headstring.
Then again, i don't know for certain that they haven't tweaked it, so that you aim for, say the top cusion. The headstring is the standard target, but with all the regional variations, you can't really pin down one definitive 'right' way. Except official competition rules.
Anyway, before i
It has everything you could want from a pool game, simple controls, playability, monkeys in the balls...
I'd go so far as to say that if you had the option of using the control stick to determine cue power (move it straight back then forward to strike through the ball), and more games (8 ball, rotaion, a range of sets of rules (for geographic differences) ), oh, and some novelty selection of location, cloth color and stuff. Then that would be a pretty much perfect pool game.
Oh, but the bit at the start, where both players hit a ball up and down the table to decide who starts, the aim of that is (in regular pool at least, i don't know for certain that there isn't some dodgy varient for monkey billiards) to get the cue ball to finish closer to the head string (line across the top half of the table, the one you have the ball on to start the game), it would help a bit if they actually showed the headstring.
Then again, i don't know for certain that they haven't tweaked it, so that you aim for, say the top cusion. The headstring is the standard target, but with all the regional variations, you can't really pin down one definitive 'right' way. Except official competition rules.
Anyway, before i