''Video Hustler'' (ビデオ・ハスラ一 ''Bideo Hasurā'') is a

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(pocket billiards)

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released by

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in 1981. Dynamo released the game under the name ''Lil' Hustler''. The gameplay is basically billiards, but with numbered, color-coded pucks on top of a lacquered plywood-made, green board, similar to

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In Japan, ''Game Machine'' listed ''Video Hustler'' on their June 1, 1983 issue as being the twenty-fourth most-successful table arcade unit of the month.

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