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Super Monkey Ball Touch & Roll

Super Monkey Ball Touch & Roll brings the Super Monkey Ball series to the DS. Featuring a similar selection of party games and 50 different characters, this newest entry builds on the previous versions of the…

73 1 December 2005 ESRB E

Super Monkey Ball Touch & Roll is a platform developed by Sega Corporation, released 1 December 2005 on Nintendo DS.

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What Super Monkey Ball Touch & Roll is

Super Monkey Ball Touch & Roll is a platform game developed by Sega Corporation and released in 2005. It is available on Nintendo DS only. It carries an ESRB E age rating.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Super Monkey Ball Touch & Roll brings the Super Monkey Ball series to the DS. Featuring a similar selection of party games and 50 different characters, this newest entry builds on the previous versions of the game. Ten different worlds will challenge your monkey-controlling skills. Also, touch-screen controls and wireless play have been implemented to take advantage of the DS platform.
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How it plays

It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action and kids. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the Super Monkey Ball series

Super Monkey Ball Touch & Roll is the eighth of 45 entries we hold in the Super Monkey Ball series. It arrived 9 months after Super Monkey Ball Deluxe. The next entry was 2 in 1 Combo Pack: Sonic Heroes/Super Monkey Ball Deluxe in 2005. Its critic score of 73 is 2 points above the series average of 71. The highest-rated entry is Super Monkey Ball Jr. at 90.

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How it was received

Super Monkey Ball Touch & Roll holds a critic score of 73 out of 100. That places it above 44% of the 2,372 rated platform games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2005 averaged 67, so it scored 6 points above the year average.

What it launched against

Super Monkey Ball Touch & Roll launched on 1 December 2005, within three weeks of Kingdom Hearts II, Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsistence, Need for Speed: Most Wanted and Mario Kart DS. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Kingdom Hearts II, Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsistence, Need for Speed: Most Wanted, Mario Kart DS.

Official trailer

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Quick answers

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When did Super Monkey Ball Touch & Roll come out?
Super Monkey Ball Touch & Roll was released on 1 December 2005 for Nintendo DS.

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