Super Monkey Ball is a series of platform video games initially developed by Amusement Vision (now Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio) and published by Sega.

The original Monkey Ball arcade cabinet featured three playable characters: the primary protagonist AiAi, his wife MeeMee, and their son Baby, who has traveled back in time from the future; a fourth, AiAi's best friend and former rival GonGon, was added in the game's GameCube port, Super Monkey Ball.

[10] Writing in 1001 Video Games You Must Play Before You Die, Christian Donlan described Super Monkey Ball as "one of Sega's grade-A triumphs".

[11] An enhanced engine of the GameCube games was used in F-Zero GX,[12] which was critically acclaimed[13] and Nintendo considered a step forward for the franchise.

[17] Due to the older demographic of the PlayStation Vita, the difficulty for Super Monkey Ball: Banana Splitz was made more on par with the GameCube entries.

[19] The 2020 battle royale game Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout has been described as "Super Monkey Ball for the Fortnite generation" by Tom Wiggins of Stuff magazine.