Ape Escape

Ape Escape is arguably one of PlayStation’s most original platform titles. The game exclusively used Sony’s Dual Shock controller and required the player to use both analog sticks to control the game’s hero. Ape Escape is the story of a band of rogue monkeys that escape from the amusement park and mistakenly break into a genius professor’s laboratory. They find the inventions called the Peak Point Helmets and instantly become intelligent, with a particularly ingenious simian named Specter running the others. In a theme reminiscent of Planet of the Apes, these little creeps plan on changing history so that apes rule the world and humankind becomes the special attraction at amusement parks. The premise was damn cool…and more importantly, it had monkeys!