This guy is playing Super Monkey Ball with an actual super monkey ball. Why can’t he become the next President?

Put a monkey in a ball (not an actual one, monkey clearly, the ball ought to be superb) and make a online game the place stated monkey, known as AiAI rolls round accumulating bananas round fiendishly tough programs and you’ve got the premise for one of many best-loved puzzle video games in gaming historical past.

Tremendous Monkey Ball is ace, all the time has been, and possibly all the time will likely be, and now with the newest model, Sega’s Tremendous Monkey Ball Banana Rumble on the Nintendo Switch, AiAi is rolling out (pun, very a lot supposed) to a model new viewers.

However what might make it even higher? What one factor might probably create the best Tremendous Monkey Ball expertise in our lifetime? Effectively enjoying the sport with an precise monkey ball in fact.

Buddies, forged away your Joycons. Joystick drift is a factor of the previous. Effectively, it’s so far as Dr Tom Tilley is worried.

You see Dr. Tom is a pc scientist and he has put all that intelligence and schooling into making a controller for Tremendous Monkey Ball that encompasses a mannequin of AiAI in a ball and made a large trackball out of it so he can steer AiAi across the programs by rotating the it along with his arms.

All people’s including AI to issues lately so I assumed I might add AiAi to my DIY soccer/soccer controller.😁🍌#SuperMonkeyBall #sega https://t.co/nk2pcta3OG pic.twitter.com/XBohHHNIOC

— Dr Tom Tilley (@DrTomTilley) June 26, 2024

Utilizing some cardboard (scientific cardboard clearly) and a 3D printer to print the monkey he reveals in his submit on X how he’s put all of it collectively and the way it all works. The person is a genius. A bona-fide genius and he has my vote.

His post said, “All people’s including AI to issues lately so I assumed I’d add AiAi to my DIY soccer/soccer controller.”

That is additionally humorous. He’s a genius and a humorous one at that. Please make us a Monkey Ball controller Dr Tom. We’re just about begging you.

Take a look at the video above to see why {hardware} modders will at some point rule the earth.