15 Games That MUST Be On The PlayStation Classic

14. Ape Escape

Ps1 Classic Feat
SCE Studios

The PlayStation's menagerie of mascots, both marsupial and saurian, earn the bulk of the console's platforming plaudits, but one boy's quest to capture his animal buddies jumped over the lot of them.

Masamichi Seki wasn't monkeying around when he made Ape Escape. In the same way Shigeru Miyamoto purpose built Mario 64 to benchmark the Nintendo 64 controller, Ape Escape was designed to put not one, but two analogue sticks through their paces. This fact alone could disclude the monkey hunter from the PS1 Classic - early images don't show the DualShock included with the bundle - but surely Sony won't be so short-sighted.

Swooping your net over any of the game's escaped simians was just as satisfying as swinging Bowser by the tail, and whilst every 3D PS1 platformer had hitherto only aped Nintendo's template, ironically only Ape Escape managed to match it.

Editorial Team
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Benjamin was born in 1987, and is still not dead. He variously enjoys classical music, old-school adventure games (they're not dead), and walks on the beach (albeit short - asthma, you know). He's currently trying to compile a comprehensive history of video game music, yet denies accusations that he purposefully targets niche audiences. He's often wrong about these things.