Ape Escape Was Born Because “3D Games Offered Way Too Much Freedom”

“It became very easy for players to lose sight of what they should be doing”.

If you grew up with a PlayStation, there is a good chance that you may have heard of Ape Escape — Sony Computer Entertainment’s 1999 platformer about a young boy tasked with travelling through time to round up a bunch of unruly monkeys.

However, what you might not know is that it was originally being developed as a slightly different kind of platformer than the iconic chase ’em up that we know and love today, originally following a young boy roughly “18 years old” running around a large field fighting large gorilla-like enemies with a cudgel.

Read the full article on timeextension.com

“It became very easy for players to lose sight of what they should be doing”.

If you grew up with a PlayStation, there is a good chance that you may have heard of Ape Escape — Sony Computer Entertainment’s 1999 platformer about a young boy tasked with travelling through time to round up a bunch of unruly monkeys.

However, what you might not know is that it was originally being developed as a slightly different kind of platformer than the iconic chase ’em up that we know and love today, originally following a young boy roughly “18 years old” running around a large field fighting large gorilla-like enemies with a cudgel.

Read the full article on timeextension.com

 

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