Super Monkey Ball [Player's Choice]
Super Monkey Ball [Player's Choice]
Super Monkey Ball [Player's Choice]
Super Monkey Ball [Player's Choice]
Super Monkey Ball [Player's Choice]
Super Monkey Ball [Player's Choice]

Super Monkey Ball [Player's Choice]

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A transparent ball, a monkey inside it, and a floating maze with no guardrails: Super Monkey Ball explains itself in about three seconds and then spends hours testing your nerve. You never steer the monkey directly. You tilt the entire stage with the analog stick and let gravity, momentum and the ball's slippery physics do the rest, which means one small overcorrection on a narrow beam can send AiAi, MeeMee, Baby or GonGon tumbling into the sky below while the timer ticks away.

The idea started in Japanese arcades as Monkey Ball, a cabinet running on Sega's NAOMI hardware with a banana-shaped joystick, dreamed up by Amusement Vision head Toshihiro Nagoshi. After Sega stepped away from making consoles following the Dreamcast, an enhanced version became a GameCube launch title in 2001 and a headline in its own right: Sega's first game published for a Nintendo home console. Seeing Sega's name on a Nintendo launch lineup was a jolt for anyone who had lived through the 16-bit console wars, and the GameCube's analog stick turned out to be a natural home for that banana.

The main game climbs from Beginner's 10 floors through Advanced to Expert's 50, and the difficulty curve is steep in a way that always feels fair. Early courses teach you to commit to a line; later ones throw in moving platforms, bumpers and goals that demand precise speed control. Finish a difficulty without continuing and bonus floors open up, while bananas scattered across each stage tempt you off the safe path in exchange for extra lives.

Then there is the party side, which is where plenty of GameCube owners spent most of their time. Monkey Race, Monkey Fight and Monkey Target are ready for up to four players, and play points earned in the main game unlock Monkey Billiards, Monkey Bowling and Monkey Golf. Monkey Target alone, a roll down a ski-jump ramp, a glide over open ocean and a frantic landing on a floating bullseye, can eat an entire evening. The Player's Choice reissue put this launch-day favorite back on shelves at a lower price, and this first game is still the purest, most stripped-down form of the formula that turned into one of Sega's longest-running modern series.

Fast factsgame data via IGDB
Released
2001
Publisher
Sega
Developer
Amusement Vision
Players
Single player, Multiplayer
About the game

Super Monkey Ball is a 2001 platform party video game developed by Amusement Vision and published by Sega. The game debuted in Japan at the 2001 Amusement Operators Union trade show as Monkey Ball, an arcade cabinet running on Sega's NAOMI hardware and controlled with a distinctive banana-shaped analog stick. Due to the failure of Sega's Dreamcast home console and the company's subsequent restructuring, an enhanced port dubbed Super Monkey Ball was released as a launch title for the GameCube in late 2001, garnering interest as Sega's first game published for a Nintendo home console. Conceived by Amusement Vision head Toshihiro Nagoshi, Super Monkey Ball involves guiding a transparent ball containing one of four monkeys—AiAi, MeeMee, Baby, and GonGon—across a series of maze-like platforms. The player must reach the goal without falling off or letting the timer reach zero to advance to the next stage. There are also several multiplayer modes: independent minigames as well as extensions of the main single-player game.

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