Awesome / Super Monkey Ball

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• The satisfaction of completing the Master Stages in the original Super Monkey Ball for the first time. Even reaching them is a feat in of itself!
• Reaching (and beating) the Master Stages (and Master EX in 2 and Deluxe) of any of the games can also count as this, doubly so if you manage to beat them without losing a continue or even a life.
• In Super Monkey Ball 2, Dr. Bad-Boon has used a shrink ray to shrink Aiai, Meemee, Baby, and Gongon. Bad-Boon gives Meemee an ultimatum: either marry him or watch her friends be cooked. Meemee just snaps and flies up Bad-Boon's nostril, making him sneeze, which blows away the other monkeys, giving them a chance to escape.
• Also in Super Monkey Ball 2, the very final level, Master Extra 10, is a beautifully accurate model of the Nintendo GameCube, down to every bump and curve. Even the labels are readable. The objective is to survive on all six sides as it rotates, and then get to the Goal once the disc lid opens to reveal it. It is fittingly one of the hardest stages in the game, and the perfect way to conclude it.
• Gongon gets his at the end of World 2 (Volcanic Magma) in Super Monkey Ball 2, when he single-handedly stops Dr. Bad-Boon's initial plan to sink Jungle Island by detonating a huge bomb inside its volcano to make it erupt, unless Meemee agrees to marry him. How, might you ask? By punching the bomb, which launches it right out of the volcano and into Dr. Bad-Boon's flying airship, causing it to crash.
• The fan mods. Levels in these may be ball-bustingly hard but you cannot deny how well done they can be. Case in point, Super Monkey Ball Gaiden which includes a complete set of original worlds replacing the story mode levels including backgrounds, new music, and of course, levels fit for a master!

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