''Cool Pool'', also marketed as ''3D Ultra Cool Pool'', is a 3D pool

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, and the ninth game in the ''3D Ultra Series''. It has an online playing feature. This game offers classic pool games such as

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, but it also includes its own fantastical pool games such as Chameleon Ball and Mad Bomber, which use elements that cannot exist in real life such as color changes and explosions. This game also allows online play one on one against other players and offers text based chat during play. A successor to the game, called ''

Maximum Pool ''Maximum Pool'' is a video game developed by Dynamix and published by Sierra On-Line under their Sierra Sports label for Windows and Dreamcast in 2000. It is the tenth game in the ''3D Ultra'' series, and the successor to the 1999 game '' Cool ...

'', was released for Microsoft Windows and

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in 2000. On 16 August 2007 Sierra shut down the public pool game servers used by ''Cool Pool''. "Online Forever" is a project started at PAuth.com which aims to keep ''Cool Pool'' running online, though that has since also shut down. With the help of a patch, the game will see the public pool rooms now being hosted by members of the community. Both ''Cool Pool'' can be

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to see these pool room servers.

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