Ranking Every Super Monkey Ball Game 

You may notice some new "PNG Tuber" avatars in this video! I'm not replacing the main channel profile, but we did want to experiment with some new ones that move mouths with my talking, and also blink on their own. Let me know what you think! We don't have a lot of expressions yet, but with this method we could definitely make more in the future.

It takes balls to do a ranking like this.

2:33 “I’m not a motion control hater” *is practically known for hating motion controls in every wii game*

Fun fact: Deluxe was so accurate in its physics that literally every single speedrun technique can be done in 2 if you just mod the deluxe stages in. They all function exactly as they did in deluxe if you play them in 2. I’m pretty sure the only reason you had those issues with the controls in deluxe is because you used an Xbox controller instead of a gamecube controller.

12:18 You actually CAN skip the credits in Step & Roll you just have to hold the A button for a few seconds. Which is a little weird but it's something.

Real legends know the series of pain, anger, and most importantly, FRUSTRATION that the old super monkey ball games put on Nathaniel

World record holder of the Xbox version of banana blitz remake here! Disappointed you didn't mention the awesome theme music, became a staple of our house after hours and hours of grinding

One entry in and you’ve punched my childhood

It's basically both games in one.) Released in 2002, Super Monkey Ball 2 is a bigger, and better version of the already excellent Super Monkey Ball. It has even better stages, and even more party games than the original, making it the preferred version to play at gatherings.

Banana Blitz slander will not be tolerated. I grew up with that game and it’s what got me into the series. I honestly loved the motion controls since it felt like you were actually tilting the stage the monkeys were on.

Banana Mania was my first Monkey Ball game, and it was so good that I even 100%'d the damn thing. I didn't think a jumpless platformer would be so much fun.

I once played Monkey Ball and I thought "If monkeys are inside balls, wouldn't that make me a human?" and then I thought again "Wth does that even mean?"

Super Monkey Ball Adventure pissed me off a plenty but still feels kinda nostalgic! I do miss this series sometimes...

My brother and I both LOVED Banana Blitz’s mini games growing up. I’m not joking when I say that we must have played Monkey Wars well over 2 or 3 hundred times

OH MY GOD. Core memory unlocked with Super Monkey Ball Adventure, always had vague memories with that game and never knew what it was. I thought the hub world looked familiar and the style too, and as soon i saw Monkey Cannon, HOLY. THAT is the minigame we played allll the time, this is insane

We need a new Super Monkey Ball game it’s been too long for us.

17:07 I don’t know if you knew this, but you can fling the monkeys at the text and keep them on the screen to get bananas. Gives you something to do for those long, long credits…

Monkey Ball 2 was so much fun. Despite the difficulty at times, it was so fun and charming. I have both Monkey Ball 1 and 2 for the GC to this day, and I got Banana Mania a while back on a huge sale, so I will be playing it at some point😊😊

Dang, I grew up playing banana blitz on the Wii and loved it. Great memories of that game. Never played other monkey ball though… guess I didn’t know what I was missing out on!

For monkey ball jr, if you press A you can tilt the level more to go a bit faster... took me so long to figure that.

Love the longer format videos. Much respect for the amount of effort it must take to make these.

I’m surprised NB didn’t mention his experience with super monkey ball adventure in the frustration series

Bro, I’m just getting into Monkey Ball. I’m so happy this came out just when I’m starting to get into it 😎

Watched this to find the monkey ball game I played on xbox a whole bunch as a kid. Man deluxe served me well it would seem.

My Spotify Wrapped is FILLED with Monkey Ball music, 320 whopping hours in 2022, almost double my second place album in the top 5

Super Monkey Ball was my childhood. I never thought you'd rank all of them. Thank you!

I just wanna express my appreciation for you. I’ve been watching your content for over 10 years now and you’ve just been a face of my childhood all because of Monkey Ball. I just wanna say thank you for all the fun laughs and creative, ORIGINAL content (you see a did a throwback right there) But I feel I can speak for everyone when I say you’re an incredible content creator and deserve the world. You’re a serious inspiration, especially for someone like me. I’ve had it rough due to my autism but once I learned you had it too, and you were making it through all these incredible accomplishments, I couldn’t help but feel inspired. Thank you for everything 🖤

Considering SEGA and Microsoft had a partnership in the early 2000s with the original Xbox, Deluxe being #1 doesn't surprise me. They were pumping so many good games for the Xbox back then and Deluxe is just one of those.

I actually got into this franchise not to long ago, so this is a surprise😅

I feel like adventure has a lot of potential. If the game had been more linear and less confusing to get through it would’ve been more fun. I can actually see what they were going for with adventure and genuinely like the ideas on display, if only the execution was better it would’ve been a decent game.

"If there is a hole, there is a goal "make sense 🗿🗿

Me and my sister loved these games, thanks for the nostalgic ride!

I'm really glad that you're starting to bring back the ranking videos, recently. Off-topic, but can you make a ranking video about the Legend of Zelda games? I would love to see a video about it.

24:17 Pretty sure it is without loosing a life in this game not a continue. At least I know in order to unlock Beginner Extra and Advanced Extra it is without loosing a life. Which is so much worse!

Banana Blitz is kind of a guilty pleasure of mine, though the HD version is far superior because of eliminating the motion issue.

Now this is the business

Super Monkey Ball Jr allows you to move faster with the A button & slow down with the B button. Basically, it's the closest to a control stick for a hand held. It's actually how I won Expert 19. Holding down A while moving allows you to clear it. Kinda like how Super Mario 64 DS has a run button to emulate holding down a control stick in the original.

I’ve been waiting for this thanks NB

truly a (super) monke moment

I have a lot of nostalgia for Touch and Roll.

Now this…This is the Video I have been waiting for❤

idea: complete every mario and luigi game in 10 days.

The new character is really cool!

I remember playing this at my local arcade and it was so goofy

This is a pretty cool ranking! You should do Donkey Kong in the future!

I like the video but I do have one critic. The new PNG tuber feels a bit janky when it does pop up within the video. I feel like it could have been synced a little bit better when your talking.

"is the only portable monkey ball game..." *chokes in 3ds* Oh sorry missunderstanding

I love your Ranking Videos!!

Great video mate 👍

18:06 this reminds me of the song that played when you get a power star in mario

Gotta love Monkey Ball!

The way you reviewed Super Monkey Ball Jr. wasn't very fair - you can also hold A to go faster and B to go slower to compensate for the D-pad...

17:07 if i remeber, you can launch the monkeys at the credit blocks

I loved super monkey Ball 1 and 2 as a kid and I'm glad to see that they got good rankings, I look forward to playing future titles

I love your ranking videos!

There is a much easier way to unlock Master without using a continue in SMB1. In the first expert level, don't do anything until the timer is at exactly 2 seconds. Roll forward until .16 seconds, then you hold down and left on the analog stick. (Pause buffering will help) When done correctly, you'll cut the tape at the goal and get a "time over" at the same time. You'll lose a life, but the level counter will go up by 1 every frame when both clear and time over conditions are triggered at the same time. At respawn, it will still be the first level, but the game would think you are on the final level, which should read as "Floor 50". After that, you will have to clear all Expert Extra levels with 2 lives to get Master. Hope this helps anyone who is struggling to unlock Master.

I’ve been watching monkey boss stuff from you, so this is amazing. Thank you give always been my favorite RU-vidr for a reason.

Unless you count the original marble madness and marble blast ultra on the Xbox 360 The only monkey ball game I've played is banana blitz the Wii version and once I played the arcade like 2 credits. I feel like the most controls didn't work super well but I still liked them and I was thinking if you had some kind of mobile device like a 3DS or a cell phone and you use the motion controls there that would probably be better. If there was a game that you could have most controls on but then also turn them off and it would keep track of how you beat the level then that'd be cool.

I'm disappointed that you didn't mention the developer's custom bowling levels in Super Monkey Ball 2's Monkey Bowling 2's Special Mode. It was so cool to see unique levels for bowling as most bowling games don't even do that and it always seems like a missed opportunity. I guess the third training in Wii Sports Bowling is closest to this but still why aren't there more games that do that? It is literally bowling with 10 pins each time (as standard) but instead of the single boring straight-line there are curves, inclines, etc. Not only did they have one set of 10 bowling stages, but they also had 3 variants of these (Level 1, Level 2, and Level 3). Honestly a really good top tier underrated bowling experience if it wasn't for the controls being sub par.

Nathaniel is striving for monke! 🍌

SMB Adventure I wish they done more to fix what was wrong with story mode. Even I didn't know what to do to progress and never finished the game since then.

Whats up with sega making physics based platformers and not having the newer games have those original physics

I noticed you changed your animation self. And it looks very good! I really like how much more animated it looks now compared to the old ones.

You should try to 100% every Zelda game in one month

I'm hoping that one day an unreleased version of Monkey Ball is discovered. If the Dreamcast hadn't failed I think it would have released on Dreamcast. The original Monkey Ball ran on the Naomi arcade hardware which is almost identical to the Dreamcast. It is sad that the Dreamcast failed :( It is one of the best consoles ever made.

Monkey ball adventure is my favorite monkey ball game. It is really hard and can even be annoying but I think is has a lot of charm and at least has the best multiplayer out of any monkey ball game.

Well done! One game alone took weeks to be decided on. Recordings also weeks to complete. There was never a finished script and so changes were abundant. I agree with your selection!

Super Monkey Ball Adventure looks so cool... its a shame that they ruined everything else about it... its the sonic 06 of monkey ball

17:09-17:13 That's another thing, you may not be able to skip the credits in Touch & Roll (I just quit to the menu after hitting the goal in the last stage of each world) but there is a minigame in the T&R credits you just start it by tapping one of the monkeys on the touch screen or by flicking one of them upward. The minigame itself is alright, just flick the monkeys to the top and hit as many letters as possible. It also gets pretty hectic because you can use more than one monkey at a time and while they can fall you can flick them right back up when they get to the touch screen.

For the record, in Super Monkey Ball 1, the life system to access the extra stages is worse on the Beginner and Advanced stages. You have to complete those WITHOUT LOSING A LIFE to get their corresponding extra stages...

These ranking videoa really let nathaniel MONKEY around with his opinions! Also i gotta say....the new avatars look pretty clean!

I'd love to see Nathaniel Bandy dabble in more Monkey Ball content, especially more challenge videos as the series' structure lends to challenges.

With Banana Mania, the default controls are pretty bad, the only way I got it to feel good was changing the deadzone to square in steam settings Then it felt perfect

I hate how the wii always monkeys around with motion controls

I love all of your ranking videos. They're all so fun to watch. Thank you for giving us these great videos.

I've bought Banana Mania for the Switch this summer mainly because of you! I've only played for a dozen hours but I should really get back to it to complete the expert mode of SMB1 and to finish all the extra mode

OMG FINALLY A NEW SUPER MONKEY BALL VIDEO I LOVE YOU NATHANIEL

12:46 Is this how Squid game was created?

My only gripe is 3D being over step and roll, other than that I agree

I love the Monkey Ball games they were always fun and challenging. The music and characters are also wonderful. Cool video. ^_^

17:08 I used to fling the Monkeys into the credits when this played. It’s like that block ball game with the letters in the credits.

The avatars look good Nate! Edit: Anyone remember the Monkey Ball episode of the What makes Nathaniel rage?

3:36 NB Table!

Didn’t you wanted to stream the 50 Minigames in Super Monkey Ball Banana Blitz? Why not do it 6 years later

Because of this video, I decided to get Banana Mania on my Xbox, and I’m really loving it! Even though I just started. So thanks Nathaniel!!

6 minutes and 44 comments and 141 likes??? Great job Nathan!

Hi Nathaniel Bandy I love this and I hope you have a good day and you are awesome

The credits in Touch and Roll are a mini game. Flick a monkey to hit the letters in the names that pass by.

You can play monkey jr on game cube with the expansion

I enjoyed this video!

It was heartbreaking for me to see Banana Blitz at the bottom of this list given I have A LOT of nostalgia for the game given that I put a crazy amount of hours into the game when I got the Wii originally

I remember my 2DS Joy stick breaking at the time I played Super Monkey Ball 3D's Monkey race. I wasn't exactly sure how it broke at first.

This video is gonna make me go nuts. The balls he needed to make this video must be big and steel

13:58 lmfao, a Monkey Ball game with guardrails is like a vegan restaurant that only serves steak. Just complete disrespect

0:30 New Nathaniel bandy png

monke + balls = happy

OG’S will remember the Frustration Series. Used to rage at this game😭😭

Awesome video as always 👍 I didn't know there was so many Monkey Ball games 🐵 Now I want to play Super Monkey Ball : Banania Mania and I hope you tried while touching every banana 🍌

Monkey Ball Adventure is my personal favorite. I recognize it's not the best game and it wasn't even my first Monkey Ball game. As a kid, I liked the story mode a lot and it was fun and unique. I still like to emulate and replay it every couple years because it's just that nostalgic for me.

I’m kinda rocking with the new png and the animations! 👌