Side Pocket (サイドポケット, Saido Poketto?) is a pocket billiards (pool) simulator video game originally released into arcade by Data East in 1986. Versions of the arcade original were developed for various platforms and two sequels to the game were produced. G-Mode currently owns the intellectual property rights to the Side Pocket series, and licenses these games globally.
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—Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894)