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Yes, the video is upside-down. It’s supposed to be! I wanted to show you Super Monkey Ball, which is available from iTunes. I installed 2.0 onto my iPhone today, and started downloading apps. I noticed a ton of people had been downloading this particular one, so I was trying to decide what to do. I was hemming and hawing, trying to decide if I should spend the ten bucks to get this game or not. My friend Kevin Carmony sent me a $10 gift certificate to the iTunes store, telling me to stop messing around and get it already! Ok fine! So I buy the app and start playing around with it. OMG. This is awesome!

This gave me an idea! I could get people to send me $10 iTunes gift certificates in exchange for my doing silly things. Someone had me sing Chocolate Rain, which I did of course. Another one of you sent me a gift certificate and asked me to let you see me playing Super Monkey Ball. If you want me to do something silly, it’ll cost you a $10 iTunes gift certificate! I know you can’t hear me very well, but this game isn’t about the audio. It’s all about the game play. I’ve found that if you hold it at a ten-degree angle, it will work much better for you.

You are one of four monkey characters who happens to reside in a clear sphere. Your goal is to roll around a series of precariously strung platforms into the goal portal. On the iPhone, control is accelerometer-based–simply tilting the device back and forth controls your momentum. If you receive a call while playing Super Monkey Ball, play will be interrupted and you will be presented with the traditional “Answer” or “Decline” screen. If you decline the call, Super Monkey Ball will be automatically paused and you can immediately resume and return to play. If, however, you accept the call, Super Monkey Ball will restart and your previous game will be eliminated.

Thanks, Apolo for the gift certificate, and for asking me to play this game in a video. It’s a lot of fun, and I’m sure I’ll master it… eventually!

Yes, I know I put Monkey Balls instead of Monkey Ball… just thought you’d get a laugh out of it!

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