{{Short description|1988 video game}} {{Infobox VG | title = | image = Rack 'Em Cover.jpg | caption = | developer = Artech | publisher = Accolade | designer = Paul Butler<ref name="gamespot">{{cite web|url=http://uk.gamespot.com/c64/puzzle/rackem/tech_info.html|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130123230032/http://uk.gamespot.com/c64/puzzle/rackem/tech_info.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=2013-01-23|title=GameSpot Tech info|website=GameSpot}}</ref> <br>Rick Banks<ref name="gamespot"/> | artist = Grant Campbell | composer = Paul Butler | released = 1988 | genre = Sports | modes = Single-player | platforms = Commodore 64, MS-DOS }}
'''''Rack 'Em''''' is a sports video game developed by Artech Digital Entertainment and published by Accolade. ''Rack 'Em'' simulates five cue-sports, including pool and snooker. The game was released for both MS-DOS and Commodore 64 in 1988.
==Gameplay== ''Rack 'Em'' has five different game modes: Snooker, Pool, 8-ball, 9-ball and Bumper Pool.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1988/11/22/science/peripherals-games-that-mean-business.html|title=Games That Mean Business|last=Shannon|first=L.R.|date=22 November 1988|work=New York Times|accessdate=2009-08-19|url-status=live|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140522074141/http://www.nytimes.com/1988/11/22/science/peripherals-games-that-mean-business.html|archivedate=22 May 2014}}</ref> A trick shot mode allows saving shots to disk.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/washingtonpost/access/73650199.html?dids=73650199:73650199&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Dec+12%2C+1988&author=Don+Oldenburg&pub=The+Washington+Post+%28pre-1997+Fulltext%29&desc=Computers%3B+Playing+the+Sporting+Life%3B+From+Billiards+to+Darts+to+Auto+Racing%2C+Games+for+Armchair+Athletes&pqatl=google|title=Playing the Sporting Life; From Billiards to Darts to Auto Racing, Games for Armchair Athletes|last=Oldenberg|first=Don|date=12 December 1988|newspaper=Washington Post|access-date=2009-08-19|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121105102341/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/washingtonpost/access/73650199.html?dids=73650199:73650199&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Dec+12,+1988&author=Don+Oldenburg&pub=The+Washington+Post+(pre-1997+Fulltext)&desc=Computers%3B+Playing+the+Sporting+Life%3B+From+Billiards+to+Darts+to+Auto+Racing,+Games+for+Armchair+Athletes&pqatl=google|archive-date=5 November 2012}}</ref> The game includes in-game editor for the bumper pool mode.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=_7QSAAAAIBAJ&sjid=_vsDAAAAIBAJ&pg=4770,1196020&dq=|title=Billiards game gets better with playtime|last=Brown|first=Lonnie|date=3 December 1988|work=The Ledger|accessdate=2009-08-19}} {{Dead link|date=September 2010|bot=H3llBot}}</ref>
==Reception== The game received a score of 708/1000 from ''ACE'' magazine in March 1989, that described the game as having "pretty realistic" game physics. However, the game does not have opponent artificial intelligence to play against, and ''ACE'' described this omission as the "sole disappointing aspect of ''Rack 'Em''".<ref name="ACE">{{cite journal | url=https://archive.org/stream/ace-magazine-18/ACE_Issue_18_1989_Mar#page/n62/mode/1up |title=Rack 'Em reviewed on IBM PC |author=Jarratt, Steve |journal=Advanced Computer Entertainment | date=March 1989 |volume=18 |issue=March, 1989 |pages=64 |url-status=live |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20161007232121/https://archive.org/stream/ace-magazine-18/ACE_Issue_18_1989_Mar#page/n62/mode/1up | archivedate=2016-10-07 }}</ref>
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==External links== {{mobygames|/rack-em}}
{{Snooker Video Games}}
Category:1988 video games Category:Accolade, Inc. games Category:Artech Studios games Category:Commodore 64 games Category:Cue sports video games Category:DOS games Category:Single-player video games Category:Snooker video games Category:Video games developed in Canada