Ape Escape/Trivia


 * Dueling Dubs: For some reason, the games are almost always given two English dubs. One for North America where the characters all have American accents, and another for the UK where everyone has a British accent. This applies to everyone except for Monkey Pink, who retains the same more American accent in both.
 * Franchise Killer: It seems the third game didn't do well enough in the West for the franchise to avert No Export for You for most of the remaining installments. The PlayStation Move reboot, likewise, seems to have failed to find an audience and killed the franchise entirely, with very few signs of life from it since then.
 * Hey, It's That Voice!: Jimmy and Natalie ended up sounding like Ash and Misty in the USA version of Ape Escape 2. Given the nature of the game, it fits.
 * Veronica Taylor also provides the voice of Pink Monkey in Ape Escape 2. In the same game, Gary is Yellow Monkey, Mokuba is Pipotchi, while Tristan (or Yusei; take your pick) voices Red Monkey, Blue Monkey and Specter.
 * In Ape Escape 2, Dan Green does double-duty as both the Professor and Spike.
 * And in Ape Escape 3, Debi Derryberry voices Pink Monkey.
 * No Export for You:
 * Piposaru 2001, Million Monkeys, Piposaru Racer and SaruSaru Big Mission were the only titles in the series to not get an English version. An Eyetoy entry in the series, Monkey Mania, never got an North American version due to poor reception in Japan, Europe and Australia. Ape Academy 2 similarly only got released in Europe and Japan. In an odd case, Ape Escape: Pumped & Primed was not released in Europe.
 * The anime series Saru Getchu -On Air- hasn't aired outside of Japan.
 * The Other Darrin: Specter's voice actor changes with every game. The only time the same actor has played his part twice was for Ape Escape 2 and Ape Escape: Pumped & Primed.
 * What Could Have Been: The Nightmare Scenario Monkey Fable from the second game was supposedly the original idea for the game.