8 Embarrassing Video Game TV Adaptations You Won't Believe Got Made
5. Ape Escape
Ape Escape is fantastic, from its incredibly silly premise of monkeys running wild across time and space, through to the outstandingly bad voice acting in the first game. If you've not played it, you owe it to yourself to give the first PS1 game to mandate analogue control a go. Nothing feels gimmicky and everything feels so smooth to control.
I just wish that same sense of polish and pride had transferred over to the animated series of shorts that were released in 2009, a full 10 years after the original game. This series was the most basic phoned in effort that could have been assembled, with the focus of the show being Specter getting into all sorts of wacky hijinks thanks to his ape assistants. Things hit a massive roadbump as soon as the first episode begins with the animation looking like it took all of a weekend to string together and the jokes feeling like they'd been lifted from a Christmas cracker for all of their command of comedy.
This truly belongs in the realms of so bad that it's good just because despite each short experience feeling like you're watching the concept of humor choke to death in front of you, you end up laughing at just how awful the effort is. Therefore, in a truly sickening way, the animation succeeds in providing entertainment. That said, we're most definitely laughing at and not with the series in this instance.