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Million Monkeys (サルゲッチュ! ミリオンモンキーズ, Saru Getchu! Mirion Monkīzu) is a platforming video game published and developed by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation 2 video game console.It was released throughout Asia a year after the previous title Ape Escape 3.The game was planned to be released in the United Kingdom in late 2006.
ApeClub, the Ape Escape twitter account, has been responding to fan comments like this one, “I’d rather see Million Monkeys brought Stateside.” Ape Escape: Million Monkeys is a multiplayer monkey catching game for PlayStation 2 only released in Japan. Surprisingly, “your wish MIGHT be granted.”.Later, the tweeter explained Ape Escape Racing, a PSP game, overseas.
“No, because sales weren’t so good compared to other Ape Escape titles. It JUST made it into the Best of Best listing in Japan and also, that’s why we didn’t release Primed and Pumped in Europe either.”So, Sony skipped Ape Escape Racing because of low sales, but might localize a PlayStation 2 Ape Escape game? That’s an odd strategy unless Ape Escape PS3 is a remake of Ape Escape: Million Monkeys.
When it comes to video games, I have a very peculiar taste. I don’t like playing games online other than Team Fortress 2. I don’t like the majority of the big games that come out these days. I’m one of very few people who are very happy that Spike from Sony’s Ape Escape series made it into Sony Playstation All Stars Battle Royale.I’d love to see Sony finally make an Ape Escape 4 but it most likely isn’t in the cards.
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Catching silly monkeys while traveling through time and space just doesn’t appeal to today’s average gamer who would rather shoot guns at people online. It sucks to have an interest in things that the majority of people don’t. There’s not as much money in making the games that appeal to me.I’ve been a fan of the Ape Escape series since the first game. A friend of mine brought it over during a sleep over. He told me that we couldn’t just use any old Playstation controller.
We had to use the Dualshock, Sony’s new controller. You couldn’t play Ape Escape without it. The controller blew my young mind away. I still think Sony’s DualShock controllers are among the best in the game industry.We spent the night playing Ape Escape. I had so much fun chasing monkeys around levels with a net and using a hula hoop to speed up. That sleep over is one of my favorite child hood memories.
My friend moved away shortly after that. I still replay Ape Escape or its sequels at least once a year. It’s an indulgence in nostalgia for me.
Seeing Spike end up in one of Sony’s big games for the year makes me glad. It’s nice that the franchise hasn’t been forgotten even though it really doesn’t have a place in Sony’s current plans.Spike standing next to the likes of Kratos in this new game really shows the contrast between the direction of Sony now and how it used to be. Kratos is a murderous demi-god who killed his own wife and child before setting off on a vengeful journey filled with blood, sex, and gratituitos violence.
Spike is just a kid whose job it was to catch monkeys wearing pants.
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