In Super Monkey Ball Step & Roll players guide AiAi through winding mazes with the balancing board and become “monkey ninjas”.

After a three year break, Sega is revisiting the Super Monkey Ball series on Wii with Super Monkey Ball: Step & Roll. The game supports the balance board, which is a good idea in concept. The marble maze game in Wii Fit was fun, right?

Aside from an iPhone game Sega hasn’t done much with the Super Monkey Ball franchise. AiAi seems to be paying his banana bills by making cameos in other Sega games like Sonic & Sega All Stars Racing.

Sega’s Wii launch title, Super Monkey Ball: Banana Blitz takes a cue from Super Monkey Ball Adventure and adds in boss battles to the game. Here is a look at what you’re going to be battling with AiAi and his simian pals.
 
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This new trailer of Super Monkey Ball: Banana Blitz for the Wii has a montage of footage of how the game is going to be played with the remote. Some mini games might look familiar if you’ve seen Wii Sports. Both games have boxing, baseball and tennis or in Super Monkey Ball’s case racketball. There [...]

From Avatar: The Last Airbender to Zelda: Twilight Princess we have thirteen pictures of cover art for upcoming Wii games. See anything special in the Super Monkey Ball: Banana Blitz artwork that’s not in any of the other covers?
 

Super Monkey Ball: Banana Blitz for the Wii introduces more than a new control scheme (you can jump now!) and more mini games there are new monkeys.
 
Doctor is a mysterious old monkey that drifted down to Monkey Island from an unknown origin.  He suffers from amnesia and doesn’t even remember his own name. However, [...]

Here is another picture of the Japanese Wii box. Nintendo also announced a list of Japanese launch titles and they are:

Nintendo
Hajimete no Wii (Wii’s Beginning)
Odoru Made in Wario (Wario Ware: Smooth Moves)
The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
Wii Sports* (packaged in the system)
 
Atlus
Chou Shittou Caduceus Neo (Trauma Center: Second Opinion)
 
Bandai Namco
Ennichi no Tatsujin
SD Gundam Revolution
Tamagotchi no [...]

After a Super Monkey Ball remake for the PS2 / Xbox and a DS remake, we’re finally getting an all new game in the Super Monkey Ball series. Instead it isn’t just a banana grabbing brain bending puzzle game, it is an adventure game. Aiai, Meemee and the rest of the monkey ball squad were [...]

These new screenshots of Super Monkey Ball Banana Blitz coming out for the Wii around launch show off some of the new mini games. One picture has AiAi holding a baseball bat. It seems likely that the Wiimote will be used as a bat for this game. Other mini games shown are a ring toss [...]