Product Description

The monkey madness returns with 10 worlds and over 50 new stages in the single player Challenge Mode. Roll the monkey ball around with the stylus or Control Pad to reach your goal and unlock new worlds. Play straight through the worlds and stages from easy to hard, or go to Practice Mode to rehearse the levels you find the most difficult.

Those mad monkeys boast a total of six games in Party Mode for both single and multiplayer platforms. Challenge your friends to a Monkey Race or box your way to victory in Monkey Fight. And, nothing can be more satisfying than hitting a hole-in-one on Monkey Mini Golf or striking `em down with Monkey Bowling. Exclusively for the DS system, are two brand new party games - Monkey Hockey and Monkey Wars - which will ensure that the monkey mayhem never stops!

• Three Single-player Modes. Whether you`re rolling through the 120 stages in Challenge Mode, getting up to speed in Practice Mode, or reviewing your glory in Replay Mode, you`re sure to have a ball.
• Six Party Games. All new Monkey Wars and Monkey Air Hockey join the roster of Super Monkey Ball favourites: Monkey Race, Monkey Fight, Monkey Bowling, and Monkey Golf.
• Bring Your Friends to the Party. All party games support up to four players and allow you to play as either a boss or a normal player. If your friends don`t own a copy of the game, use DS Download to play Monkey Wars and Monkey Air Hockey.
• Pick up and Play. By simply touching your stylus to the screen, you`re rolling. This makes it easy for both new and familiar fans of the series to get in the game!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1727 in Computer & Video Games
• Brand: Sega
• Released on: 2006-02-17
• Rating: To Be Announced
• ESRB Rating: Rating Pending
• Platform: Nintendo DS
• Dimensions: .21 pounds

Manufacturer's Description
The monkey madness returns with 10 worlds and over 50 new stages in the single player Challenge Mode. Roll the monkey ball around with the stylus or Control Pad to reach your goal and unlock new worlds. Play straight through the worlds and stages from easy to hard, or go to Practice Mode to rehearse the levels you find the most difficult.

Those mad monkeys boast a total of six games in Party Mode for both single and multiplayer platforms. Challenge your friends to a Monkey Race or box your way to victory in Monkey Fight. And, nothing can be more satisfying than hitting a hole-in-one on Monkey Mini Golf or striking 'em down with Monkey Bowling. Exclusively for the DS system, are two brand new party games - Monkey Hockey and Monkey Wars - which will ensure that the monkey mayhem never stops!

Customer Reviews

Same ol' Monkey
The Super Monkey Ball series on consoles started back in 2001 when the Nintendo GameCube launched. It became a popular series due to its simple concept and addictive gameplay. After a few titles and even more success with the series, SEGA decided to bring all of the monkey-rolling action to the Nintendo DS. Unfortunately, Super Monkey Ball: Touch & Roll isn't the best of the series but it's a fun game that fans will really enjoy on-the-go.

For those of you who are unfamiliar with Super Monkey Ball, the game is played entirely using analog control to tilt the in-game level and send a monkey, trapped inside of a ball, across a goal line. The concept is similar to the classic Marble Madness, only the control is put on the level instead of the ball itself. Of course, the levels are usually construed in extremely awkward and difficult ways, offering quite a unique and interesting, not to mention addictive challenge.

With 100 levels total, there's quite a workload in Super Monkey Ball's Mission Mode. Each level gets progressively harder, offering new challenges and altered terrain to roll your monkey over. Where an early level will have barriers and walls protecting you from rolling off of the map, later levels will have ramps and pits and all sorts of challenging obstacles. One of the levels that I had the hardest time with wasn't actually large or drawn-out at all, it was constructed like a roulette table. The trick was to roll your monkey into the hole in the roulette wheel before the wheel struck your ball and sent you flying off-screen. Of course, I died about 10 times before finally accomplishing this.

Though there are 100 levels, a good percentage of them don't take very long to complete and the game itself could be completed in a couple of hours if you're an experienced Monkey Ball player. Thankfully, SEGA included some mini-games to spice the package up. Monkey Golf was my personal favorite, allowing you to play mini-golf on all sorts of twisted levels. Monkey Hockey was a fun air hockey-based game, but I thought it was far too difficult to use the stylus and control your paddle.

Visually, Touch & Roll is pretty basic. The levels contain a few specific color schemes and the backgrounds are so stark that I didn't really notice them. The music is pretty cute, but overall, none of the production values really stood out. In fact, I'd go as far as to say that I didn't care much about what Monkey Ball looked or sounded like because the gameplay and control concept is so original on its own. Touch & Roll is a good package for Monkey Ball fans or newbies like myself, but it's nothing too fancy. It's basically just the same thing you've enjoyed for years in a handheld format (a first, unless you owned a N-Gage or played the GBA), but there's nothing wrong with that.

Very addictive!
I got this game for my birthday yesterday and it is very addictive. Apart from racing there are other games on it aswell like monkey mini golf and other stuff. I love it when I play races so that I can play them with the stylus! I love this game and it is so much fun!

The Mega Monkeys Return!
Ok here's the everything you need to know guide to super monkey ball touch and roll. I'd never played a super monkey ball game before on any format BUT!!! I'm glad I did. There are two reasons for this. 1:It's possibly the most addictive game since sonic magic sandals and 2:it's so incredibly simple, though I do recomend you use the D pad as it is much easier to control your monkey. The graphics are brilliant, the sound is brilliant, the gameplay is as you might have guessed brilliant. HOWEVER, there are some courses that are hair tearingly frustrating and you're going to be splitting you punch bag every 10-15 miniutes but apart from that it's great so buy it.
PLEASE NOTE:It's not a game you play for more than 30 mins at a time. bye then, yours sincerely Dude Of The World (listen to me I'm only ten)