Ape Escape: Did anyone actually play this game?

[Froggy Slayer]

I'm going to open your eyes to an amazing, overlooked 90's video game on the PS1 called APE ESCAPE. It..was my childhood video game, and it was brilliant. I picked it up again a few weeks ago to see if it was just nostalgia filter, and I can confirm that it is still as brilliant as it ever was. So, did any other Escapists actually play this game? If so, what did you think of it?

Oh, and if you haven't got it, GO NOW AND PURCHASE IT. There are a few copies on the interwebs I do believe. You'll need an original PS1 memory card if you want to save, though.

 

[Daystar Clarion]

Fuck yeah I played it!

My favourite platformer of the PS1 era, even above Crash and Spyro.

It was the first game to use the analog sticks exclusively, I mean come on, how fucking awesome was it to run around with the left stick and control an RC car with right?

And the music? The music was awesome.

 

[DrunkDonut]

Hell yeah first game that left me shocked as a little kid going around capturing monkeys I loved it.
and if you have a psp or vita you can just buy it from the psn store for £4.99 I I think I know I did

 

[Shadowstar38]

I thought everyone had. I think it was a pretty huge hit back then.

I remember back when me and my cousins would boot the game up and smash it in one sitting because we didnt have memory cards. It was amazing.

Current Gen Ape Escapse game now please.

 

[Andy Shandy]

Hell yes, I played it. Fucking amazing it was too. Also got me used to the Dualshock Analog sticks as well, which I hadn't used up until Ape Escape.

 

[scorptatious]

Of course I did! Along with it's sequels.

I remember the first time I played the game I was wondering why I couldn't move at all. I was so used to playing games using the D-Pad I never actually thought to use the analog sticks for about ten minutes. :/

I hope that game comes out on the PSN soon. That game was a classic.

 

[Keoul]

YES
I've played both Ape escape 3 and Ape escape: Pumped & Primed. Both were amazing games though the latter I had to play a japanese version so I had literally no idea what has happening at the time. Sadly never played the original :c

 

[The Knightly Gamer]

That was one of the first games I got when I had a PS1. I remember playing the heck out of that game. I never did beat it thought which makes me a little sad.

 

[lunavixen]

I have it on the PSP and the second one on PS2. I think it holds up today because it was a more original game, using unique gadgets to capture the monkeys, my favourite gadget is the skyblade, the green thing you swing around to get onto higher ledges

 

[dessertmonkeyjk]

It's still a classic in my book for just the mechanics alone. I don't miss using the right stick for the camera when I got a center camera and look button.

I still ponder why not many games do this and have a mechanic that uses the right stick. I can see a good 3D arena beat'em up working well with it.

 

[Marcus Kehoe]

yep, even played the ps2 versions. pretty fun games, if not eventually tiring.

 

[Fr]anc[is]

I remember getting stuck in the swimming tutorial because I didn't know you could click the sticks and I had no fucking idea what the game wanted me to do. After that it was all good.

 

[rancher of monsters]

I still own 2 and 3. I need to see if I can find the original. I remember liking the music alot too.

 

[synobal]

Yep Ape escape was a classic, I played the first two I think, and they were great.

 

[Keymik]

My opinion is mostly like all the others, it introduced me to analog sticks and I loved the duck out of it.. Or should I say I loved the MONKEY out of it?... Sorry..

 

[daveman247]

sure did, never finished it though ^_^

The carnival level was just too damn hard.

 

[ThePS1Fan]

Hell yes. I own the PSP remake and remember playing the original a long time ago. Also have the second. Never played the third but it looked pretty cool, even if they story was kinda, well completely fucking retarded.

 

[Overusedname]

I've rapped over the soundtrack.

Seriously, that game might have made me interested in Hiphop (the good kind).

It was one of the defining games of my childhood, easily. And the music and atmosphere was perfect.

 

[Stealthygamer]

I never played the first or second one, but Ape Escape 3 is near and dear to my heart.

 

[Fiery Killer]

Played Ape Escape, Ape Escape 2, Ape Escape: Pumped and Primed, and Ape Escape 3 all as they came out growing up, it has it's place in my childhood for sure.

Wish they would make an Ape Escape 4 instead of these crappy Ape spinoffs like Ape Quest and Ape Academy, though.