A strange little side quest
Zoom out from 8 Ball Pool Stars for a moment and the timeline gets surprisingly deep. Basketball became an Olympic medal sport in 1936, while women’s basketball joined the Olympic programme in 1976. That old idea kept changing rather than disappearing. In 1958, Tennis for Two used an analog computer and an oscilloscope to turn simple physics into a playable tennis-like demonstration. That gives 8 Ball Pool Stars a little more company than it first appears to have.