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Side Pocket Walkthrough
by The Lost Gamer (
[email protected])
Copyright 2002
Table of Contents:
001. General information
002. Story
003. How to Play Pool
004. Walkthrough
005. Game Genie Codes
006. Credits
001-General Information
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This is a walkthrough for the Nintendo Entertainment System
(NES) game called Sidepocket. The game is based on Pool,
or Billiards as some call it. You can e-mail me at
[email protected], but make sure there is no
subject, or I'll delete (I got 30 spam e-mails in six hours
yesterday). If you want to use part of my guide for something,
ask me first, or you'll break some law. Okay? Let's break!
Thanks to another gamefaqs.com contributer, J Dawg007, for
his help on the USA trick shot, and telling me about the
draw feature.
002-Story
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Uh, you're a pool player. You want to go as far as you can
go with your skills. First you try city champioin, then
state champion, then USA champion, and lastly world champion.
003-How to Play Pool
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In Pool, there are sixteen balls. However, you're not playing
pool against anyone, so you'll just have nine balls.
The object of the game is to hit eight of the balls into
side pockets. There are six side pockets, four of them in
the four corners, and the other two points are the midpoints
of the longer ends.
Two balls are special. One is the cue ball, and the other
is the eight ball. The cue ball is white, and the eight ball
is black.
You use a pole to hit the balls into the holes. The trick
is, you can only hit the cue ball. So you have to hit the
cue ball in such a way that it hits against the other balls,
and makes them go into the holes.
You cannot get the cue ball into a hole (that's bad), and
the eight ball can get in a hole only AFTER all the other
balls are in holes. However, this rule is only enforced
in two player mode.
There are two kinds or extra bonuses you can get. One bonus
is for hitting the balls in the holes in their numerical
order. The other bonus is if you hit the balls in pockets
consecutively (you get a ball in one shot, and on the next
shot you get another ball, and so on).
In later levels, the challenges get tougher, and if you miss
too many shots, you're out.
004-Walkthrough
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Okay, in the first screen you can choose walkthrough (it may
be helpful to pool newbies), but what you really want to
choose is pocket game. However, there are some controls in
this game that you may not be used to (follow, draw, center,
left, right), so you should try it out. Once you're done,
you can try the pocket game.
Well, you can see all four levels: city champ, state champ,
USA champ, and world champ. You'll start at city champ.
Okay, you need 3100 points to become city champion. You'll
start off at a pool table. Since this is first round, you
don't have the eight ball, you just have six of the normal
balls.
The starting shot is lined up for you, so press A to say
that you're taking the shot. Now press A again when the
power meter (minimum to maximum) is at a desired level.
You'll notice a corner will have a star in it; shoot a ball
in that corner to get an extra bonus! You can use the handy
dandy dotted line to line up your shot.
Also, in the upper left hand corner with your score will be
a picture of the ball you'll want to shoot in next (for
numerical order). Remember you get extra points for shooting
the balls in numerical order. You can also press B to see
the order.
Just keep shooting until every ball is in, you pool shark!
Do your best! If you mess up too much (lose all of your balls
in the upper left hand corner), you lose!
After you get all them in, your points are tallied up. Extra
points for every shot you made in a row, and for every shot
you made in numerical order.
If you got enough points, you get a bonus shot. Try to hit
the ball(s) into the empty hole. The bonus shot varies
depending on how many shots you get into pockets that had
stars.
If you make 3100 points or more, you're the new city champion
and you get to see a good-looking girl lovingly stare at you.
If not, you try another game.
Now you're onto state championship. You need 4100 points.
State championship has nine balls.
Things are the same here. Do what you did last time, and hope
you get over 4100 points in this game (a good majority of the
points comes from the order/in a row bonuses).
If you got 4100 points, you're the state chapion! The bonus
shot this time should have bumper pool (there are little bumpers
that you must avoid). Plus, the good-looking girl stares
at you again.
However, before passing onto USA champion, you have to do a
fancy trick shot. You get a weird set up. You get one shot,
and you have to make every ball go in to win. Do this, and
you're the new state champion who is going on to the USA
level. If not, you do the state level again.
To make the shot, line up the dotted line so it covers up
the dot on the left hand side of the table (the dot tells
where the balls are placed in normal play). Do a high
powered shot and they all go in. If it works, you go onto
USA level.
Okay, now you're onto USA level. You need 5100 points to
become the USA champion. The USA champion level has six
balls, no eight ball. This means you'll have to A) make a
lot of shots in a row B) make the shots in numerical order
C) make the shots into the highlighted pockets. A combination
of these will let you get the 5100 points. This'll probably
be the first level that poses a challenge to get the
necessary score.
If you get 5100 points, you're the new USA champion. You
get to see yourself outside of a club. You're next to a
fancy car, with the good-looking girl inside. Then you mess
up the coolness by doing the peace sign.
You'll have to do another trick shot to get onto the USA
level. This trick shot is much harder. Hit all four balls
in to win. You have to use a draw shot on this one, so press
down + B until the dot on the ball (center of the upper
screen) is as far down as possible. Then, shoot at the two
ball, with the line about between the bottom of the ball
and the middle of the ball. Good luck!
After the USA level, you're onto world level. Once again,
it has nine different balls. Now you need 7100 points,
which is a hell of a lot. So using fantastic math skills,
I figured it out. You'll have to make every ball go in
consecutively, and four of them must be in numerical order.
You can change those numbers by getting star shots, but
any way, it's very tough.
If you don't make it, you'll have to do the board over again,
this time with six balls (doubly harder), but then back to
nine balls if you mess up again.
When you get 7100 points, you see a screen showing that you
are the new world champion (and the good-looking girl again).
But before you take the title, you have to do one last trick
shot.
This one is wild. There are two pool sticks on the table,
blocking yor way. Contrary to good sense, you will need to
use the sticks to beat this shot.
Aim at the one ball. The dotted line should be underneath
the one ball, almost directly beneath it. If you take the
top edge of the last three dots in the line, the line should
connect with the edge of the gray part of the upper left hand
pocket. You need an exact angle. Then do a shot at maximum
power, and be amazed at how it works. Oh, and you win.
005-Game Genie Codes
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There aren't any game genie codes for this game. How lame!
They sure could have been useful!
006-Credits
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This FAQ is copyright of The Lost Gamer, 2002. If you want
to use any part of this FAQ, ask me first (instructions under
general information)
