Pool Paradise sur Gamecube est un jeu de billard un rien atypique puisque, outre les tables classiques dédiées à ce sport, il propose des variantes croustillantes (tables en croix ou autres formes biscornues), le tout dans un environnement de rêve, sur une île du Pacifique sud. Au total, le titre propose onze types de règles différents ainsi qu'une trentaine d'adversaires contrôlés par l'IA.
She gave my mother such a turn, that I have always been convinced I am indebted to Miss Betsey for having been born on a Friday. The word was appropriate to the moment. My mother was so much worse that Peggotty, coming in with the teaboard and candles, and seeing at a glance how ill she was, - as Miss Betsey might have done sooner if there had been light enough, - conveyed her upstairs to her own room with all speed; and immediately dispatched Ham Peggotty, her nephew, who had been for some days past secreted in the house, unknown to my mother, as a special messenger in case of emergency, to fetch the nurse and doctor.