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Game entry

Super Monkey Ball

2001 · Platformer, Arcade · GameCube · Sega

Super Monkey Ball holds position no. 3,653 in the world ranking on GameForever, with 1,422 ELO points and 35% of duels won out of 74 played. Where it fares best, it sits at no. 81 out of 104 (2001).

World rank

no. 3,653

ELO score

1,422

Wins

35%

Duels played

74

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About Super Monkey Ball

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.

ELO progression

Score moved from 1,500 to 1,422 ELO points over the last 170 days.

Head-to-head

Direct record on the most played match-ups.

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Around this spot

The games Super Monkey Ball sits between in the world ranking.

  1. 3,650 Midnight Club II 1,422
  2. 3,651 Turok 1,422
  3. 3,652 Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 1,422
  4. 3,653 Super Monkey Ball 1,422
  5. 3,654 Harvest Moon 1,422
  6. 3,655 Mr. Shifty 1,422
  7. 3,656 Micro Machines 1,422

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The standing

Where Super Monkey Ball ranks

The world rank mixes every family of games. Here is where Super Monkey Ball stands in each of the ones it belongs to. Its best standing, all families considered: 81 out of 104 (2001).

Where Super Monkey Ball ranks
Ranking Position Games competing
World ranking 3,653 5,035
Platformer 438 620
2000s 964 1,308
2001 81 104

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