Super Monkey Ball for iPod Touch is Insanely Fun to Play

A Super Monkey Ball game for the iPhone and iPod touch is currently the top selling game application on the App Store. This is not just a ’cell phone game,’ it’s a full console game developed by SEGA. This game is very simple and insanely fun to play!

Players control this game by tilting their iPhone or iPod Touch. While moving across the floor the player can collect bananas by rolling into them to score points and attempt to earn an extra life earned at every 100 bananas.

In this game, you will guide a monkey encased in a transparent ball to victory by tilting and rolling him through a variety of slopes and turns. You must navigate a large variety of obstacle courses to reach goal lines within set time limits. There are 5 worlds and 110 stages, designed to be fun for both first-time players and long-time Super Monkey fans. Along the way, you must collect as many bananas as possible to help you increase your remaining lives.

If the monkey ball rolls off the floor it is a fall out and the player loses a life. If the player can complete all of the floors in beginner, advanced, or expert difficulty without using a continue (10 floors in beginner difficulty, 30 in advanced, 50 in expert), extra floors are unlocked. Finishing all of the floors in the expert difficulty (including the extra floors) without using a continue unlocks the master difficulty, which contains ten incredibly difficult levels.

Bananas are worth 100 points each. Each second on the timer is worth 200 points if finished with the time bonus, and 100 points if finished with less than half of the time left. Thus, it is advantageous to make detours for additional bananas if it will take less than 1 second or 0.5 seconds per banana respectively. It may also be appropriate to sacrifice time and points if the player is close to reaching 100 bananas and an extra life.

Game characters include AiAi, MeeMee, Baby, and GonGon.

AiAi is a high spirited monkey who just can’t get enough bananas. He can be scatterbrained at times, but he is very reliable when it counts. He is an unlockable character in the original Sonic Riders. Loves bananas so much he spends his carefree life thinking “The banana I ate was really good”

MeeMee is a cute stylish monkey who is adored by all the other monkeys. She loves AiAi and is married to him. Baby is the child of AiAi and Meemee.

Baby is the son of AiAi and MeeMee, traveling back to the past from the future. Although still young, he is reliable like his mother. He is the fastest, coolest baby around. He travels from the future to stop the evil plans of Dr. Bad-Boon to break up his parents. His cries reverberates across Jungle island and only Meemee can calm him down.

GonGon is a powerful monkey that trains everyday to become the strongest monkey. However his size makes him the slowest of the 4 characters.

This is one of the best (if not the best) game you can get from the App Store. Go ahead and enjoy rich 3D graphics with an easy-to-master control system that utilizes the accelerometer inside your device. Price: $9.99 (download).