#APE ESCAPE MONKEY SUIT SERIES#

While that doesn’t sound revolutionary, Ape Escape was the first game in PlayStation’s history to be developed specifically for the DualShock controller, making use of the twin-stick control setup.Īpe Escape was widely beloved on release, with a host of positive reviews and enough commercial success to warrant a host of follow-ups and spin-offs, and entered both the Greatest Hits series in the US and the Best Of series in Japan.

It launched in 1999 for the PS1, and it’s pretty much as the title suggests: some apes have escaped and you must run around some colourful and varied levels with a net to try and capture them. The first Ape Escape was developed by Japan Studio and published by Sony Computer Entertainment. Will we ever see a new game in the series? Let’s take a look. That franchise is Ape Escape, and given how prevalent the monkey catching game was during the PS1-PS2 era for PlayStation, the fact that there’s been no significant release in a decade is shocking. Over on the PlayStation, there’s one franchise that’s seemingly dropped off the face of the Earth, only to be briefly mentioned again more recently and then dropped a second time like a bad habit. In fact, that’s the better example, forget I mentioned Blinx. You could also say the same thing about Banjo-Kazooie.

I wouldn’t exactly call Blinx: The Time-Sweeper “iconic” but it made enough of an impact in its two games on the original Xbox that the fact it’s not on more modern platforms is noticeable. It’s rare to see big platform holders seemingly abandon one of their more iconic franchises, but it does happen.

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