My first experience with Ape Escape was on a Pizza Hut Demo Disk which consisted of the Opening, first two levels, and the Time station (With Skyflier and RC Car unlocked) but the actual cutscenes missing. I made up my own story about space cop (Spike) off to rescue the escaped Alien Monkey Prince (Specter).



I pitched it as a reskinnable game-story idea to my sister who is interested in learning how to make videogames one day:



It opens on Spike off duty taking a vacation, but hell breaks loose in his vacationing spot while he’s trying to ignore calls from ‘the Chief’ (the Professor) and is basically forced to cut his vacation short because of it (And the PDD agency only has like 2 employees so who else?) and plays the tutorial until the first “Boss” which is the circus-escaped Space Prince Specter who steals a cruiser at the Space-Bus-Terminal and sets in motion the plot of the game. After beating the final boss and rescuing Specter from utter doom the final cutscene after the game’s credits play where Spike is back to his vacation while ignoring calls from the Chief again. Eventually answering and the chief begging him to help show the rookie hire the ropes. Spike goes on to say they have like 3 employees now so he should be allowed to take a break only for whatever chaos or something to pass by him, mirroring the beginning, With Specter hot on their trail, now in a PDD uniform showing he joined the PDD after his rescue. He’s biffing the job though and Spike cuts his vacation short to show the rookie how it’s done and the scene fades to black as they chase down the chaos.