Game entry
Super Monkey Ball
2001 · Platformer, Arcade · GameCube · Sega
Super Monkey Ball is ranked no. 2,082 among the best video games of all time by GameForever voters, with an ELO score of 1,491 and 33% of duels won.
World rank
no. 2,082
ELO score
1,491
Wins
33%
Duels played
48
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 1,491 ELO points over the last 123 days.
Head-to-head
Direct record on the most played match-ups.
- against BattleBlock Theater 50% 2 duels played · 27 points ahead
- against Strider 100% One duel played · 29 points ahead
- against Path of Exile 2 100% One duel played · 91 points behind
- against Chibi-Robo! 100% One duel played · 131 points ahead
- against Strider 0% One duel played · 15 points behind
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