The Story

The Professor has worked for many years to discover the secret of Time Travel and now he is close to achieving his goal with his latest invention - The Time Station. Two boys, Spike and Buzz, come to visit the Professor in the hope that he'll let them be the first ever Time Travellers, but when they arrive at his laboratory they find him and his granddaughter Katie tied up and the room filled with hundreds of monkeys on the rampage.

Some time earlier, a monkey called Specter escaped from the zoo and stumbled across another of the Professor's old inventions, the 'Peak Point Helmet'. It's a device used to harness the mind and increases its capacity - in short, it makes the wearer really intelligent. This might have been okay for a human, but used on a monkey it proved disastrous, changing Specter from a sweet mischievous animal to a power-mad monster who has set his mind on ruling the world. The first thing Specter did was release all the other monkeys, then he and his ape army lay siege to the Professor's laboratory, tying up him and Katie.

Spike and Buzz arrive just as Specter's monkeys follow him into the Time Station. The two boys get caught in the blast from the Time Station and are dragged into the Time Vortex. Eventually, the Professor and Katie struggle free and manage to trace Spike - he's trapped in the Prehistoric era!

If Specter and his monkeys aren't stopped, the monkeys will make themselves the dominant species and history will be changed forever. Alone and a million years away from home, Spike must help the Professor capture all the monkeys and stop Specter from taking over the World...

Release Dates

United Kingdom: 1999-July-01

North America: 1999-June-23

Japan: 1999-June-24

Staff

Name	Function
Takamitsu Iijima Hiroki Nishi Taichi Ogawa	Graphic Artists (Characters)
Shunsuke Saito Makoto Doi Satoru Miyaki Yusuke Watanabe Shingo Takahashi Mikiko Takeda Hideaki Takaku Toshiyuki Yonekura Shuhei Hashimoto Takeshi Sugiyama	Graphic Artists (Stages)
Shoji Miyazaki Kentaro Yoshida Shinya Murakami Hiromasa Horie	Graphic Artists (Movies)
Yuji Yamada Kazuo Kato Kaoru Hagiwara Toshitake Tsuchikura Kenji Ishii Makoto Wakabayashi Kiyoshi Sakai	Programmers
Soichi Terada	Music and Sound (Composer)
Keiichi Nishimoto Koichi Yamazaki	Music and Sound (Data Programmers)
Masatoshi Mizumachi	Music and Sound (Movie Sound Effects)
Masamichi Seki	Director
Takafumi Fujisawa	Producer
Masaki Hiyoshi Akira Okano Shinya Inagaki Kazuko Oikawa Atsushi Sakai Hideyuki Ikeda Manabu End	QA Staff
Masatsuka Saeki Megumi Hosoya Tomoko Inoue	Marketing
Masaaki Nansen Mari Watanabe Shuji Hiramatsu	CG Staff
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Kenkichi Shimooka Shingo Matsumoto Katsuyuki Kanetaka Kenji Kaido Hidekuni Sakai	Designers
Masaaki Kaneko	Music and Sound (Sound Effects)
Takashi Sora	Supervisor
Mikiko Okai	Overseas Co-ordinator

General Information

Ape Escape was released on the PlayStation in 1999. Players control the character Spike - using a variety of tools and gadgets, the aim is to capture the 200 monkeys that have escaped the Monkey Park. However, the monkeys fight back using a variety of weapons.

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1. Official Ape Escape instruction booklet.