Ape Escape (video game)
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Ape Escape is a 1999 platform game developed and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation. The first game in the Ape Escape series, the game tells the story of an ape named Specter
North American PlayStation cover art
In Ape Escape, players are tasked with pursuing and capturing fleeing apes, using gadgets such as the Time Net.
Ape Escape is the first game to require the use of the DualShock for gameplay.
Soichi Terada
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Soichi Terada is a Japanese electronic music composer, best known for his work in the Ape Escape video game series. He started producing music in 1989 as well as remixing singers such as Nami Shimada.
Ape Escape (video game)
…To entice the player to capture all the monkeys and create replay value, each one was given a name and personality. The game's music was composed by Soichi Terada, who wrote it on an Akai S1000 digital sampler, alongside an NEC computer and various synthesisers. After a game director listened to Terada's track…
Terada in 2022