Advantages: Easy to pick up | Multiplayer is a laugh | Will last ages Disadvantages: Simple graphics may put people off
A monkey in a transparent ball. It’s one very strange concept but it’s one that works well. It was originally released on arcade machines but now it comes exclusively for the GameCube. The game is simple. You take control of a monkey in a ball and you ...
Advantages: Great fun, vibrant, colourful Disadvantages: Noisy, brash and tiring
Following my temporary addiction to Luigi’s Mansion, I needed another fix for my new Game Cube. At the current time, the range of games available for the Cube is not huge and in anticipation of Marios Sunshine, which is due later this year, I fancie ...
Advantages: High monkey level, balls everywhere, bananas Disadvantages: The sequel is out soon and thats even bigger and better
Well like most people I like my monkeys. I also like my balls. So if something were to swing my way with monkeys and balls then you'll find that it has my full attention. So bearing that in mind, imagine my emotions when I found a product that is not ...
Advantages: Extremely addictive, excellent learning curve, handling and physics Disadvantages: Camara can occasionally frustrate
Monkeys. And balls. Somehow these two elements combine together to create one of the most fun and addictive video games ever. This being Amusement Visions (one of Sega’s development teams) debut games for the Gamecube, my expectations and my ant ...
Advantages: stacks of increasingly brilliant minigames Disadvantages: It isn’t perfect but it’s dead simple
Price: £40
Players: 1-4
Developer: Sega
Publisher: Inforgrames
If you’re a gaming granddad you’ll recall the puzzler Marble Madness. The idea was to direct a metal ball through trap-filled levels-a surprisingly tricky, vein- poppingl ...
