Super Monkey Ball

Name: Super Monkey Ball
Availability: InStock
Author: Amusement Vision

September 14, 2001

Amusement Vision

45/100IGDB

Genres

Platform Arcade

Platforms

Nintendo GameCube

Age rating

This game is rated ESRB: Everyone for Mild Violence.

Super Monkey Ball

September 14, 2001

Amusement Vision

45/100IGDB

Genres

Platform Arcade

Platforms

Nintendo GameCube

Age rating

This game is rated ESRB: Everyone for Mild Violence.

Super Monkey Ball is a platform arcade game developed by Amusement Vision and released in 2001 as a Nintendo GameCube launch title — a historically notable release as one of Sega's first games published for a Nintendo home console. The game originated as an arcade cabinet called Monkey Ball, running on Sega's NAOMI hardware and featuring a banana-shaped analog stick, before being ported and expanded for GameCube following Sega's exit from the console hardware market. Conceived by Amusement Vision head Toshihiro Nagoshi, the game centers on tilting maze-like stages to guide a transparent ball — containing one of four monkeys: AiAi, MeeMee, Baby, or GonGon — from a start point to a goal without falling off the edge or exhausting the timer. Beyond the main single-player mode, the game includes several multiplayer offerings, comprising both standalone minigames and cooperative or competitive extensions of the core experience.

Storyline

This game has a story that is only told in the Japanese version. Here is an excerpt, translated from Japanese: AiAi, MeeMee, and Baby are a good family and live peacefully in Jungle Island. One day, out of the distant islands, GonGon, leader of the Gorillas, brought in a raid to the island. They intend to hog all the bananas for themselves! AiAi escaped from the spot, and got tired and fell asleep. In his dreams, AiAi was told in his dreams there is a paradise called "Banana Island" in the sky from the "Grand Monkey". But in order to go there, you have to go through a couple of traps and gimmicks. But the Grand Monkey taught AiAi a magical spell: "Ei Ei Poo!" That protects him from any danger. AiAi wakes up quickly, and as he says "Ei Ei Poo!", A big ball flies out of the sky He gets insides of it and flies high above the sky. Now, survive several traps and tricks, and aim for it! Banana Island! When the player completes the Master Stages (in which the setting is above Banana Island), if they play as AiAi, MeeMee, or Baby, they will be able to go to Banana Island and enjoy all the bananas it has to offer. However, if you play as GonGon, he will be locked out of the place in which the bananas are kept while the other monkeys enjoy the bananas inside.