Experience Super Monkey Ball Like Never Before with AiAi and Friends Using the Wii Balance Board
SEGA® of America, Inc. today announced that Super Monkey Ball Step & Roll™, the amusing and exhilarating party game shipped to retailers across North America. The loveable characters from the original Super Monkey Ball™, AiAi, MeeMee, GonGon and Baby, are back with all new mind-blowing puzzles and party games specifically designed to fully utilize the Wii Balance Board™ accessory or the Wii Remote™ and Nunchuk™.
The Super Monkey Ball franchise, created by the famed developer, Toshihiro Nagoshi, has a rich lineage of games that began life in the arcades of Japan and later debuted as a Nintendo GameCube launch title. Now nine years later and with the addition of the Wii Balance Board, gamers have a blast, physically feeling what it would be like to roll around in a Monkey Ball. Known for its challenging levels and most recently its innovative ways to control AiAi and his friends; gamers are immersed into the Super Monkey Ball world like never thought possible. This newest installment of the popular series will offer new single-player puzzle levels, a brand new co-op mode as well as multiple new Party Games, giving players more variety of gameplay than ever. Super Monkey Ball Step & Roll's myriad of game modes is sure to inspire friendly living room competition between family and friends.
SEGA® of America, Inc. is also partnering with Chiquita Fresh North America for a nationwide promotion with Super Monkey Ball Step & Roll™ for Wii™. Starting this month, supermarkets across the country will feature special stickers to promote Super Monkey Ball Step & Roll on over 180 million Chiquita bananas and the branded bananas will appear in select sequences in the game itself. In addition, SEGA and Chiquita are announcing a "Super Bananza Sweepstakes" to support the partnership. Consumers will be able to enter online at www.chiquitabananas.com to win prizes, including the grand prize of a family gaming room makeover. One lucky family will receive a 50" HDTV, a sofa and four gaming chairs, a copy of Super Monkey Ball Step & Roll, a Wii console, Wii Balance Board™ (includes Wii Fit Plus™) and other great prizes from Chiquita.
For more game information please visit http://www.supermonkeyballstepandroll.com. For more Super Monkey Ball Step & Roll™ information and assets,please visit the SEGA Press FTP at: http://segapr.segaamerica.com. For more information about Chiquita visit http://www.chiquitabananas.com.
About SEGA of America Inc.:
SEGA® of America, Inc. is the American arm of Tokyo, Japan-based SEGA Corporation, a worldwide leader in interactive entertainment both inside and outside the home. The company develops, publishes and distributes interactive entertainment software products for a variety of hardware platforms including PC, wireless devices, and those manufactured by Nintendo, Microsoft and Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. SEGA of America's Web site is located at www.sega.com.
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