Sega producer talks about Super Monkey Ball for the iPhone

You'll remember that one of the game demos on the iPhone SDK was Sega's Super Monkey Ball franchise -- Spore got all the headlines, but Sega did show up with a pretty nice port of a game that could do very well on the iPhone. And when producer Ethan Einhorn sat down to talk to GameCyte about the port, he said all the things I want to hear: casual, pick up and play gaming on the iPhone, with interface innovation akin to the Wii and gaming performance comparable to other handheld gaming devices, even with a team that had never touched Cocoa and Open GL before.

There are some nice promises from Sega here for at least one cool game in the App Store in June. We'll continue to hope Sega (and Apple, and all of the other companies stepping up to develop games for the iPhone) can deliver.

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Source: http://www.gamecyte.com/2008/04/11/interview-ethan-einhorn-s…

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You'll remember that one of the game demos on the iPhone SDK was Sega's Super Monkey Ball franchise -- Spore got all the headlines, but...

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Jonathan

Interesting comments at the end of the video. Let's start a rumour: Apple to buy Sega!

April 15 2008 at 1:33 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

JOHN P.

i can't wait until the new firmware comes out... i can't wait for that sonic game.. i hope they keep sonic game like they had mad long ago for sega dreamcast... that was fun

April 14 2008 at 11:31 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

XIV

I can't wait for a Sonic game !

April 14 2008 at 5:43 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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Jeremy

I am honestly really excited for the iPhone 2.0 software.

I know I'm probably one of a very few,
but I jailbroke (jailbreaked?) my iPhone Saturday afternoon and restored it Sunday morning.

Yes, the camera app was nice, and so was the doodling one, and Drummer was really fun, but I honestly had no use for any of them. It was great, but it wasn't practical (for me).

I think with the App Store, the true potential of the iPhone will finally be unleashed.

April 14 2008 at 5:30 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply