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Game entry
Super Monkey Ball
2001 · Platformer, Arcade · GameCube · Sega
Super Monkey Ball holds position no. 3,784 in the world ranking on GameForever, with 1,420 ELO points and 37% of duels won out of 93 played. Pitfall: The Mayan Adventure is the rival it has faced most: 3 duels, 2 wins and 1 losses. Where it fares best, it sits at no. 83 out of 103 (2001).
World rank
no. 3,784
ELO score
1,420
Wins
37%
Duels played
93
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 1,420 ELO points over the last 215 days.
Head-to-head
Direct record on the most played match-ups.
- against Pitfall: The Mayan Adventure 67% 3 duels played · 90 points ahead
- against Contra: Hard Corps 50% 2 duels played · 12 points behind
- against Disney's DuckTales 50% 2 duels played · 155 points behind
- against Super Mario World 0% 2 duels played · 428 points behind
- against BattleBlock Theater 50% 2 duels played · 197 points behind
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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: 83 out of 103 (2001).
| Ranking | Position | Games competing |
|---|---|---|
| World ranking | 3,784 | 5,110 |
| Platformer | 463 | 621 |
| 2000s | 995 | 1,304 |
| 2001 | 83 | 103 |
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