Jimmy White's Whirlwind Snooker

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Jimmy White's Whirlwind Snooker
System(s): Sega Mega Drive
Publisher: Virgin Interactive Entertainment
Developer: Archer MacLean
Sound driver: GEMS
Peripherals supported: Sega Mouse
Genre: Sports
Number of players: 1-2 (alternating)
Release Date RRP Code EU 1994-11 T-70206-50 UK 1994-11 £44.9944.99 T-70206-50 SE (Rental) 199x AU 199x $99.9599.95 FSNO00SMC AU (Sega Sport) 199x FSNO00SMC
Non-Sega versions Amiga Atari ST IBM PC

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Jimmy White's Whirlwind Snooker is a snooker game developed originally released for IBM PC, Amiga and Atari ST computers in 1991. It was ported to the the Sega Mega Drive three years later exclusively for Europe and Australia.

Gameplay

Jimmy White's Whirlwind Snooker is one of the earliest attempts at rendering a billiards game in 3D, and is very simplistic in design. The camera is positioned behind the cue ball, and will rotate and pan while the balls are moving to give a wider perspective of the table. While the table itself is constructed out of flat-shaded 3D polygons, no backgrounds (or humans) are rendered.

If the player doesn't do anything for a period of time, the balls will come to life and pull faces. Despite the name, Jimmy White does not appear in the game in any form.

Versions

On the Mega Drive, Whirlwind Snooker operates at a lower frame rate and resolution than its computer counterparts, but is otherwise largely the same. This means there is no in-game music and a limited array of sound effects (though are still typically of higher quality than the IBM PC version, which relied on the internal one-channel PC speaker).

The game was built to take advantage of computer mice, and while the game is playable with a standard control pad, it is best experienced with the Sega Mouse.

Production credits

• Game Design and Programming: Archer Maclean
• Title Music: Allister Brimble, Mike Powell
• Producer for Virgin: Ian Mathias

Note: Allister Brimble is credited for the title music. However, he was only the sound programmer.

Magazine articles

Main article: Jimmy White's Whirlwind Snooker/Magazine articles.

Promotional material

Print advert in Mean Machines Sega (UK) #26: "December 1994" (1994-10-28)

Physical scans

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Publication Version Score 1700 igr dlya Sega (RU) 50 Cool Gamer (RU) 60 Joypad (FR) 88 MAN!AC (DE) PAL 77 Mega (UK) PAL 84 Mega Force (FR) PAL 86 Mega Fun (DE) PAL 73 Mean Machines Sega (UK) PAL 92 Player One (FR) 95 Play Time (DE) PAL 73 Power Up! (UK) 90 Sega Power (UK) PAL 80 Sega Pro (UK) PAL 92 Todo Sega (ES) 79 Tricks 16 bit (RU) 89 Ultimate Future Games (UK) PAL 91

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Jimmy White's Whirlwind Snooker

Mega Drive, EU
Cover
Cart Manual PCB

Mega Drive, SE (Rental)

Mega Drive, AU
Cover

Mega Drive, AU (alt)
Cover

Mega Drive, AU (Sega Sport)
Cover

Technical information

ROM dump status

System	Hash	Size	Build Date	Source	Comments
✔	CRC32 0aef5b1f MD5 7643bf8341cd0b447da1f5b9284741f7 SHA-1 040c810ccbe6310d369aa147471213d898ec2ad5	512kB	1994-11	Cartridge (EU)