Monkey Ball

Description

Using a banana-shaped joystick, the player controls a monkey in a rolling ball collecting bananas from point A to B while being careful not to fall off the edges of the platform.

Monkey Ball was produced by Sega in 2000.

Sega released 593 machines in our database under this trade name, starting in 1960. Sega was based in United States.

Other machines made by Sega during the time period Monkey Ball was produced include: Flash Beats, Dengen Tenshi Taisen Janshi Shangri-la, Dynamite Baseball 99, Slashout, delete4, 18 Wheeler: American Pro Trucker, Confidential Mission, Giant Gram 2000 - All Japan Pro-Wrestling 3 Brave Men Of Glory, Magical Truck Adventure, and Samba De Amigo

Specs

Name	Monkey Ball
Developer	Sega (United States)
Year	2000
Type	Videogame
KLOV/MOG #	8736
Class	Wide Release
Genre	Platform
Monitor	Orientation: Horizontal Type: Raster: Medium Resolution Color: Color
Conversion Class	unique
# Simultaneous Players	1
# Maximum Players	2
Controls	Joystick: 8-way
Sound	Amplified Either (Mono or Stereo)
Cabinet Styles	Upright/Standard

Monkey Ball KLOV/IAM 5 Point User Score: 3.64 (1 vote)

Fun Factor: 3.50

Overall Like	4.00
Fun (Social)	0.00
Fun (Solo)	3.00
Collector Desire	3.00

Technical Rating: 3.75

Gameplay	4.00
Graphics	4.00
Originality	4.00
Sound/Music	3.00

Personal Impressions and Technical Impressions each account for half of the total score. Within the Personal Impressions category, Like carries a little more weight than the other factors.

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VAPS Arcade/Coin-Op Monkey Ball Census

There are 15,264 members of the Video Arcade Preservation Society / Vintage Arcade Preservation Society, 9,669 whom participate in our arcade census project of games owned, wanted, or for sale. Census data currently includes 166,973 machines (7,000 unique titles).

Common - There are 31 known instances of this machine owned by Monkey Ball collectors who are active members. Of these, 20 of them are original dedicated machines. 2 of them are conversions in which game circuit boards (and possibly cabinet graphics) have been placed in (and on) another game cabinet. 9 of them are only circuit boards which a collector could put into a generic case if desired.

For Sale - There is one active VAPS member with an extra Monkey Ball circuit board for sale.

Wanted - There are 7 active VAPS members currently looking for Monkey Ball. There are 2 active VAPS members looking for Monkey Ball boards sets.

This game ranks a 1 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census ownership records.

This game ranks a 12 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census want list records.

Rarity and Popularity independently are not necessarily indications of value. [More Information]

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