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Smart Ball came out for the Super Nintendo in 1991, developed by Game Freak and published by Sony Imagesoft. It was one of those quirky, early platformers that felt experimental, a game that didn't try to fit neatly into any popular genre of the time. You don't see many games where the main character is a sentient, shape-shifting glob of jelly, and that alone made it stand out on a system filling up with mascots and fantasy adventures.

You control a blue, elastic organism named Jerry, navigating a series of single-screen puzzle rooms. Your main goal is to reach the exit in each stage, which often involves stretching your body to latch onto hooks, rolling into a wheel for speed, or transforming into a heavy ball to smash through fragile floors and enemies. The challenge comes from figuring out the sequence of transformations needed to progress, and the physics of your stretching and bouncing require precise timing. It's a game that makes you think about movement in a completely different way, and pulling off a perfect chain of morphs to clear a tricky room is genuinely satisfying.