Pool Game Simulation

59 Years old RCA Spectra 70/25 soft. RCA Laboratories

Pool Game Simulation © 1967 RCA Laboratories.

The game features 15 numbered balls, and a dotted cue ball. Lines marked the boundaries of the table which balls would bounce against. The game featured no visual cue stick. When breaking the balls the speed of the balls would vary as the computer strained to keep up with the simulation.

TRIVIA

This pool simulation was first displayed on September 28, 1967 at the open house at David Sarnoff Research Center in Princeton, New Jersey on a RCA Spectra 70/25 computer with an IDI vector display.