Super Monkey Ball: Banana Blitz HD Coming in October

Dylan Siegler

Published: Jul 16, 2019 12:12 pm

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It’s been a little while, but fans of the Super Monkey Ball series finally have something to look forward to again.

Sega recently announced that they are planning on releasing Super Monkey Ball: Banana Blitz HD later this year on October 29. The game will be available for Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, and PlayStation 4 at launch, with a PC version coming to Steam sometime in the winter. As you could probably guess from the title, the new game will be an HD remaster of the 2006 Wii game Super Monkey Ball: Banana Blitz. Since the original game made heavy use of the Wii Remote’s motion controls, it will be interesting to see how much of these functions are retained in the HD remaster, particularly for PC players who use a keyboard and mouse, instead of a controller with motion control capabilities.

The Super Monkey Ball series had pretty regular releases from 2001, when the first game was released, through 2014, when mobile game Super Monkey Ball Bounce was released. This means that Banana Blitz HD will be the first new entry in the series in five years, the longest span of time between entries in the series’ history (as long as you’re counting all spin-offs and everything).

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Dylan Siegler

Dylan Siegler has a BA in Creative Writing from the University of Redlands. He has copy edited novels and short stories and is the editor of nearly all marketing materials for RoKo Marketing. In addition to his professional work, Dylan is also working on several of his own projects. Some of these projects include a novel that satirizes the very nature of novel writing as an art and a short film that parodies buddy cop movies. His short story “Day 3658,” a look into a future ten years into a zombie apocalypse, is being published in September of 2017 in Microcosm Publishing’s compilation Bikes in Space IV: Biketopia. His political satire "The Devil's Advocates" is currently available for free (the link to this story can be found on his Facebook page).