No MIDI controller, but I did manage to get 180. I think I played something similar in some nintendo game as a kid. I remember the way it looked but not what it was called...
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I don't think I played either of these. I thought it was some Mario Party bonus game, but I can't find it in the wiki - alternatively, it was something on the Nintendo DS.
Either way it was sort of the inverse: Colored balls dropped in from outside into a mass of balls in the center, that you could rotate. If matching colors touched they'd dissolve and grant points.