Talk:Ape Escape

Sales
It has been shown on the Ape Club site, as well as references to the Sarugetchu Development Page, that the series could now fit in the Best Selling Video Game Franchise's list. However, I am confused as whether we put the 58,900,000 stats in there, or just the 6,900,000 sold through PlayStation systems. I would put the 58.9 million as that is ALL games in the franchise, not just PlayStation games. What do you guys think?--Apeaboutsims (talk) 00:45, 1 July 2010 (UTC)
 * 58.9 million would be a more appropriate figure since the article is about the series rather than the playstation games.KiasuKiasiMan (talk) 00:59, 1 July 2010 (UTC)

The article says it's the 12th best selling franchise. But the link it refers to says it's the 14th best selling. Or am I not counting right? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.210.193.78 (talk) 13:13, 9 March 2011 (UTC)

Fixing
I shall be going through ALL Ape Escape articles, possibly adding some, and fixing them. We have had a number of complaints about there not being sourced material. Any material not sourced can cause the article to be deleted. We cannot have this. So any data unsourced, or messy, will be deleted, or re-constructed using sources.--Apeaboutsims (talk) 08:17, 30 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Yup, many of the Ape Escape articles are under-sourced, mainly because the series does not have many online followers. It would be great if you could cleanup the articles.KiasuKiasiMan (talk) 02:13, 1 July 2010 (UTC)

Ape Club has twitter
The official site for ape escape has twitter. We could use information from them to help improve wikipedia. http://twitter.com/ApeClub --61.68.139.120 (talk) 07:57, 3 April 2010 (UTC)

Cant view the orginal ape escape game anymore
you cant view the orginal ape escape article anymore. Please someone fix this- apeaboutsims (cant login)--58.161.68.159 (talk) 10:49, 20 February 2010 (UTC)

Is this page really relevant?
Would it be a better idea to create a template with all these details on instead - for example, there is no need to have a listing of all the characters in the series. Seems silly to me. They should be separate for each released game.

The categories need to be sorted on some of the articles as well, e.g. Spike.

If no one else gets round to it, I might have a go at making a template... --rjcuk 17:08, 12 May 2007 (UTC)

You're right. The article is grammatically flawed and difficult to read without citing sources, and the general purpose it serves is nullified by the specific articles. Somebody needs to make a template. Faunis 05:40, 12 July 2007 (UTC)

Fan Characters
This really doesn't belong in an article trying to be serious. Removed. Kitsunexus 08:03, 2 December 2007 (UTC)

Fanmade
Are these really notable? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Carados (talk • contribs) 01:37, 3 December 2007 (UTC)

No, deleted. Kitsunexus 22:58, 3 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Just for reference, the fan made game it up for deletion at this.-Carados 01:17, 4 December 2007 (UTC)

Cool, thank you. Kitsunexus 05:32, 4 December 2007 (UTC)

Ukki
What is the meaning of the Japanese word "ukki" as used in the games? I have looked in three or four different Japanese dictionaries and have thus far been unable to find it! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.152.190.21 (talk) 20:30, 19 January 2008 (UTC)

It could be slang? Try babelfish. I'll post a link now. ;)SLJCOAAATR 1 (talk) 20:54, 20 January 2008 (UTC)

Here.

http://babelfish.altavista.digital.com/tr

Hope this helps! ;)SLJCOAAATR 1 (talk) 20:55, 20 January 2008 (UTC)

I tried typing "ウッキ" into Babelfish, Japanese to English, but it just gave me "ウッキ" (the same) as a so-called 'translation'. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.35.104.98 (talk) 06:17, 21 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Hi there. I think one of the reasons why you got the same text back is because you used Katakana. If it was not written in Katakana, it could have been the word for "gloomy" written as 鬱気 and pronounced Ukki. Hope this helps. (btw, please try to remember to sign your comments).--Ubardak (talk) 06:24, 21 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Actually, I mean "ウッキー" as in "ウッキーイエロ" (Ukki Yellow/Monkey Yellow) or "ウッキーレッド" (Ukki Red/Monkey Red), or even a few of the piposaru in the third game which have "ukki" in their names. Yes, ukki in this sense is usually written in katakana. I had only now realized that "ウッキー" had a Chō-on in it, but once again I entered in the katakana (this time with the Chō-on), and got the same kana back. It seems to mean "monkey", but I can't really be sure as it seems to be used as a sound effect sometimes outside of Ape Escape and doesn't seem to be in any dictionaries. 72.35.104.98 (talk) 03:39, 22 January 2008 (UTC)

Wow...i'm confused...SLJCOAAATR 1 (talk) 15:37, 3 February 2008 (UTC)

I usually find Ukki in other things as well such as manga, anime etc. I think that maybe the word is slang for monkey and if so it would make sense to me. Everytime I hear the word its usually used as a sound effect coming from a monkey. Sort of like how a cat makes a meow sound a monkey would make an "Ukki" sound.Monkeygaard (talk) 16:37, 19 October 2008 (UTC)Monkeygaard

Shouldn't everything be changed to English?
No really; shouldn't it? It's not as if we know the series as Saru Getchu. ChromeWulf ZX (talk) 21:22, 15 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Excellent point. I'll start. GaeMFreeK (talk) 08:07, 18 February 2008 (UTC)
 * I guess that I'll work on the Spike article then. ChromeWulf ZX (talk) 23:10, 19 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Well, right now everything is in English. The British games Ape Escape 2 and later use the Japanese names of the characters. The Ape Escape articles should use the names as used in British releases. Ape Escape 1 uses "Spike" "Buzz" and "Katie" for instance. WhisperToMe (talk) 03:37, 9 February 2011 (UTC)

This is pathetic.
All Ape Escape articles here really need an overhaul. They all use a bunch of advertisement speak, POV, commentary, obvious noninformation, bad grammar, spelling, syntax, and organization, utter disregard for the American versions and an insistence that the Japanese names be at least included whenever possible if they even use another name, and just a bunch of nonsense no one cares about without a citation or reference in sight.

It's like it was translated right over from the Japanese version with Altavista by a 12-year-old anime freak who then unsuccessfully tried to clean it up. I'd go and change some things myself but any English-language information on the series is limited, but anyone who can read Japanese needs to really clean this up. GaeMFreeK (talk) 08:00, 11 June 2008 (UTC)

I plan on re-editing all of the Ape Escape (video game series) articles when I find the time to do it. I'll also try to provide as many sources as possible along with pictures when need be.Monkeygaard (talk) 16:40, 19 October 2008 (UTC)Monkeygaard
 * I'm Going through each article and fixing them up. i have recently done Million Monkeys. I shall do the rest.--Apeaboutsims (talk) 03:00, 6 April 2010 (UTC)

Games Missing
There are a few games missing from the series.

Mobile games are missing from the list, they should be added. source - and ? use google translate if you need to.

Also, should we mention that an upcoming ape escape game is coming. look here: http://www.jp.playstation.com/scej/saru/ >>USE GOOGLE TRANSLATE TO KNOW THAT ITS THE PRODUCTION PAGE FOR APE ESCAPE--59.101.141.51 (talk) 06:03, 23 January 2010 (UTC)

Requested move

 * The following discussion is an archived discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section. 

The result of the move request was: Pages moved. Ucucha 16:21, 5 February 2010 (UTC)

Ape Escape (series) → Ape Escape — Since the launch of the first game Ape Escape has developed into a wide series consisting of numerous games, many spin-offs, anime and cartoon series. Thus Ape Escape is now more commonly referred to as a series rather than as simply the first game. The move is also supported by the disambiguation section of the naming conventions for the series. Hence the first game should be moved to Ape Escape (video game) and the series page should be moved to Ape Escape. An example of how this has been done before is that Final Fantasy directs to the series page while the first game, Final Fantasy is under Final Fantasy (video game). KiasuKiasiMan (talk) 13:46, 25 January 2010 (UTC)


 * Ape Escape → Ape Escape (video game)


 * This seems like a good idea to me. It seems to be the norm for cases like this and I think Ape Escape is a big enough franchise now.  Cr im so nF ox  talk 23:42, 25 January 2010 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

hey, you cant view the orginal ape escape's page anymore. please fix this (apeaboutsims) (cant login)--58.161.68.159 (talk) 10:48, 20 February 2010 (UTC)
 * It's now at Ape Escape (video game) as mentioned above  Cr im so nF ox  talk 15:05, 20 February 2010 (UTC)

It's A Bit Of A Mess
From looking at the template, i can see that most of the games are in the wrong section, and there are some link issues and some games actually missing. OK, first, according to this article, Ape Escape Million Monkeys, and Ape Escape: SaruSaru Big Mission are not part of the main series. . It states that the next entry in the series was going to be a working title for PS3. So why are million monkeys and big mission in the main series on the template. According to an Email i got from Soichi Terada (the person who makes music for Ape Escape). The series is constructed like this. Main Series:Ape Escape + (On The Loose), Ape Escape 2, Ape Escape 3, Working Title PS3 Side Series:Piposaru 2001, Pumped & Primed, Million Monkeys Academia Series:Ape Academy 1, Ape Academy 2 Party Series:Monkey Mania, Racer. Spin Off'sBig Mission, Quest Mobile GamesThe Mobile Games. Ill try and source the email. im thinking that ill save the email as a web page then host it for download. Also, i already had to fix the one on the template, but the links to Ape Escape all lead to the series rather than the game. You can only access it by typing "Ape Escape (video Game) into the search box. All other links link to the series page. (The page has been moved, but links haven't been changed. Please consider all this.--Apeaboutsims (talk) 22:57, 27 February 2010 (UTC)
 * I agree. The source says that the ps3 game is the fourth in the series so we must change it correctly--Morgan3136 (talk) 05:38, 9 March 2010 (UTC)
 * i shall change it. Now that we have discussed it and agreed on the same thing.--Jackex56 (talk) 05:40, 13 March 2010 (UTC)

So what's the future of Ape Escape?
Someone please say something, I haven't heard about a major Ape Escape title in years. Is this series done with after that PSMove special? I mean besides the cameo on Playstation All-Stars. A tv series, a short film, a psvita game, Ape Escape 4, anything? Come on man, someone update this wiki page. At least put a "future" section or something. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.25.229.61 (talk) 19:15, 15 November 2012 (UTC)