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Super Monkey Ball: Banana Rumble comes exclusively to Switch in June

Banana Rumble will bring 200 new stages to explore and up to 16-player multiplayer.

TJ Denzer

February 21, 2024 6:45 AM

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The Super Monkey Ball franchise is making a return in 2024 and it’s coming exclusively to Nintendo Switch. Super Monkey Ball: Banana Rumble was announced today, offering players an all-new game full of new stages, co-op, and minigames to play. Banana Rumble will be launching only on Switch to start out, and it’s coming to the system in June 2024.

Sega announced Super Monkey Ball: Banana Rumble and its release date on the Nintendo Direct Partner Showcase this week. It received a release date of June 25, 2024, only on Nintendo Switch at this time. Coming back with beautiful polish and style, the Monkey Ball characters return with around 200 new stages, 4-player local co-op, and up to 16-player online competitive multiplayer. In multiplayer, there will be all sorts of modes to explore, including the normal race to a goal and quite a few different party game-style modes.

The Super Monkey Ball franchise has had quite a glow-up recently. It was in 2021 that Yakuza/Like a Dragon developers Ryu Ga Gotoku put its hands on the series and rebuilt Super Monkey Ball as we know it from the ground up for new hardware. It ended up producing Banana Mania, which we loved for a quality return of the Super Monkey Ball series. One of our few qualms was that Banana Mania didn’t have online multiplayer for any of its modes. With Banana Rumble, it seems Sega was listening to that complaint and is addressing it here.

Hopefully, we’ll enjoy some hectic online fun when Super Monkey Ball: Banana Rumble comes in June 2024. As we await further details on the game, stay tuned for more updates on Banana Rumble here at Shacknews.

TJ Denzer

Senior News Editor

TJ Denzer is a player and writer with a passion for games that has dominated a lifetime. He found his way to the Shacknews roster in late 2019 and has worked his way to Senior News Editor since. Between news coverage, he also aides notably in livestream projects like the indie game-focused Indie-licious, the Shacknews Stimulus Games, and the Shacknews Dump. You can reach him at tj.denzer@shacknews.com and also find him on Twitter @JohnnyChugs.