Ape Escape

Ape Escape is a platform game for the PlayStation, which launched a series of the same name. Ape Escape was first released in North America on May 31, 1999, and shortly after in Japan under the name Saru! Get You! (サルゲッチュ, Saru Getchu), on June 24, 1999. It was released in PlayStation Network Japan on August 30, 2007. The brainchild of Kenkichi Shimooko, Ape Escape's Pipo Monkeys went on to become unofficial mascots of Sony. Ape Escape was the fi... more

Ape Escape is a platform game for the PlayStation, which launched a series of the same name. Ape Escape was first released in North America on May 31, 1999, and shortly after in Japan under the name Saru! Get You! (サルゲッチュ, Saru Getchu), on June 24, 1999. It was released in PlayStation Network Japan on August 30, 2007. The brainchild of Kenkichi Shimooko, Ape Escape's Pipo Monkeys went on to become unofficial mascots of Sony. Ape Escape was the first game on the PlayStation to require use of the DualShock controller. Ape Escape tells the story of a monkey by the name of Specter that comes into ownership of a Peak Point Helmet (Pipo Helmet), which greatly increased his intelligence but also gave him evil intentions. He obtains helmets for the less intelligent monkeys (not identical to his own) to assist him in his plan for world domination by travelling through time, and it's up to a young boy named Spike, with the aid of the Professor - the original inventor of the Peak Point Helmet -... less