Super Monkey Ball is an arcade platform game developed by Amusement Vision and published by Sega. The game debuted in Japan in 2000 as an upright arcade cabinet called Monkey Ball (which featured a banana-shaped joystick) and was released next year as one of the launch titles for the Nintendo GameCube.
The objective of the main game is to guide a monkey character encased in a transparent ball across a suspended series of platforms and through a g...
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Super Monkey Ball is an arcade platform game developed by Amusement Vision and published by Sega. The game debuted in Japan in 2000 as an upright arcade cabinet called Monkey Ball (which featured a banana-shaped joystick) and was released next year as one of the launch titles for the Nintendo GameCube.
The objective of the main game is to guide a monkey character encased in a transparent ball across a suspended series of platforms and through a goal. As you move, a timer will run for either sixty or thirty seconds. Try to get to the goal in time! The main game is very simplistic; the only control required is the directional analog stick. By moving the joystick, the player tilts the entire set of platforms that make up the level, called the floor, and the ball rolls accordingly. The player is not in direct control of the ball. In this way, the gameplay mirrors that of a labyrinth toy. While moving across the floor, the player can collect bananas by rolling the ball into them. The...
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