Super Monkey Ball
Amusement Vision
September 13, 2001
Genres
Platform, ArcadeDevelopers
Amusement VisionRelease Date
September 13, 2001 (23 years and 10 months ago)Publishers
SegaContent Rating
E Mild Violence
Franchises
Super Monkey Ball
Super Monkey Ball Screenshots and Videos
All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Super Monkey Ball
Start Slideshow
Discover Games
Summary
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.
Genres
Platform, ArcadePlatforms
Nintendo GameCubeDevelopers
Amusement VisionRelease Date
September 13, 2001 (23 years and 10 months ago)Publishers
SegaContent Rating
E Mild Violence
Franchises
Super Monkey BallMore from Amusement Vision
Games metadata is powered by IGDB.com
Super Monkey Ball News
Join Kotaku as we showcase some of the best and not-so-best games available for the shiny new iPad. Check out…
The iPad games are live on iTunes now — more than 700 of them. We may not have an iPad, but it doesn't mean we are…
Marble Madness meets Super Monkey Ball this week on the PlayStation Network, as TikGames reveals Hamsterball, the…
I am not the man featured in this video of a first-person shooter played from inside an American Gladiators-style…
Sega and developer Sumo Digital take a stab at kart racing with Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing, a chance for Sega…
The Nintendo representative demoing upcoming Wii title FlingSmash, kept describing the game as an "active…
By
This began Thursday, when I told McWhertor I'd heard that Alan Wake would be a playable character in Sonic & Sega…
This month, SEGA is bringing Super Monkey Ball, the series designed by Yakuza creator Toshihiro Nagoshi, to the…
The wait is over for BioShock 2. The viral marketing is over for Dante's Inferno. 2010 gets its first big…
This year could be a huge year for video games. That's what folks say every year, and that's what we are saying…
Advertisement