Pocket Pool
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Pocket Pool is a game released for the PlayStation Portable
PlayStation Portable
The is a handheld game console manufactured and marketed by Sony Corporation Development of the console was announced during E3 2003, and it was unveiled on , 2004, at a Sony press conference before E3 2004...

 gaming system, developed by Hyper-Devbox Japan and published by both Conspiracy Entertainment and Eidos
Eidos Interactive
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. The game was originally expected to have the Girls Gone Wild
Girls Gone Wild
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 license but the publishers were unable to negotiate terms.

Gameplay

The game is a simple 3D pool
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...

 game, featuring 13 different play modes, the most ever on a PSP pool game http://www.eidosinteractive.com/games/info.html?gmid=179. The player is able to unlock erotic images and videos of various models presented in the game.

Reception

The game was mostly panned, http://www.gamestats.com/objects/888/888554/ receiving the following ratings:
  • 4.0 points out of 10 from IGN
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  • 3.4 points out of 10 on Gamespot
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  • 2.0 points out of 10 from TotalPlaystation
  • 1.5 points out of 10 on 1up
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Sales

The sales statistics have not been revealed yet, however games that feature sexuality to this extent do not generally do well in the market due to major retailers like Wal-Mart
Wal-Mart
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 and Toys "R" Us declining to stock them.

Tie-ins

All of the model videos featured in the game were released by Conspiracy Theory under the title Dream Models, a UMD
Universal Media Disc
The Universal Media Disc is an optical disc medium developed by Sony for use on their PlayStation Portable handheld gaming and multimedia platform...

movie.

External links

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