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According to Famitsu, Smart Ball sold 3,345 copies in its first week on the market and 33,283 copies during its lifetime in Japan.
Super Play stated that the game is a "run-of-the-mill platform game with only its blob-shaped hero to distinguish it from the crowd.
The game was to be released about three years later and was slated for a Japan-only release, but it was cancelled at the last minute.
Despite the cancellation, Smart Ball was not the last Game Freak game to be published by Sony.
The last Game Freak game published by Sony was Click Medic for PlayStation, which was published in 1999.
A sequel, Jelly Boy 2: Chotto Abunai Yuuenchi, was developed around 1994, with music by Yoshinori Sunahara, then a member of Denki Groove, but it was cancelled around 1995-10.
Sony Music Entertainment Japan planned to release the sequel in 1994, however it was canceled.
The game was to be released about three years later and was slated for a Japan-only release, but it was cancelled at the last minute.
The company were to help publish the game as well as having helped publish the original, but due to a strain between Nintendo and Sony around the time of the game's release and Sony moving on to their own system at the time, the PlayStation, the game was cancelled as a result.
In the "Cross Review" feature of the magazine Famitsu,the game scored a total of 25 out of 40. In the "Game Report Card" reader poll run by Family Computer Magazine,it scored 21.33 out of 30, as shown below.
This score placed it 112th among all Super Famicom titles (323 titles in total, as of 1993).
According to Famitsu, Smart Ball sold 3,345 copies in its first week on the market and 33,283 copies during its lifetime in Japan.
Super Play stated that the game is a "run-of-the-mill platform game with only its blob-shaped hero to distinguish it from the crowd.
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