This month, SEGA is bringing Super Monkey Ball, the series designed by Yakuza creator Toshihiro Nagoshi, to the Nintendo Wii Balance Board. But remember kids, YOU MUST STAND ON THE BOARD. The floor doesn’t detect motion. Well, yeah, anyway.
When you have a game like Super Monkey Ball Step & Roll, which centres on collecting bananas, you couldn’t pick a better cross-promoting partner than the leading distributor of bananas in the United States, Chiquita.
Sega says Happy Holidays with a couple of holiday wallpapers and some new screens from the upcoming Wii Balance Board title Super Monkey Ball: Step & Roll.
I think Super Monkey Ball is the second-to-last game I would come up with when thinking about Thanksgiving — the first being Modern Warfare 2.
Well this one took us almost completely not by surprise! Sega’s countdown clock has ended, revealing a trailer for Super Monkey Ball Step & Roll for the Nintendo Wii.
Sega didn’t exactly cover their tracks well, what with the trademark application and the words “Super Monkey Ball” listed in the code for the mysterious countdown clock website. Soon after we posted news of the countdown clock the tags seemed to change to other random Sega properties, but the damage was done, and here we are. Super Monkey Ball Step & Roll is a Wii Balance Board-enabled version of Super Monkey Ball, due out in early 2010.
All relentlessly teasing Sega aside, I do love me some Super Monkey Ball. Could this be the title that finally sees me ponying up the cash for a Balance Board?
Is Sega planning on doing additional banana grabbing on the Wii? A recently filed trademark for Super Monkey Ball Step & Roll would lead us to believe it might be, adding Wii Balance Board support to the formula.
