Switch 2: 10 GameCube Classics That MUST Be Added

Back in the day, famed music journalist Mick Wall once wrote about his time schlepping in the same recording company as The Police. Wall revealed that, internally, the band were seen as a joke - a bunch of punk wannabes whose producer kept banging on about their music needing to find "The Feel". Then The Police released Roxanne, and the joking stopped. Whatever "The Feel" was, Roxanne had it in spades. 

Which brings us (finally) to Super Monkey Ball.

The original Super Monkey Ball was the surprise hit of the GameCube's launch line-up. Rolling ensconced simians across fantastical puzzle worlds turned out to be a surprisingly addictive experience, helped immeasurably by the game's pitch-perfect physics - the "feel" that allowed gamers to know precisely how the world would react to the slightest twitch of the joystick.

It's a feeling SEGA have been trying to recapture for over 20 years. Even Banana Mania - the 2021 remake of the SMBs 1 & 2 - failed to recreate the in-game physics that made the original entries sing. As such, if you want Monkey Ball in its purest, most perfect form, you need to go back to the source. Hopefully, said source will make its way to Switch Online before long.