When did Pipo Saru 2001 come out?

Pipo Saru 2001 was released on 5 July 2001 for PlayStation 2.

Pipo Saru 2001 (2001) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Pipo Saru 2001

Pipo Saru 2001 (ピポサル2001 Pipo Saru Ni-sen Ichi) is an action video game in the Ape Escape series developed and published by SCEI for the PlayStation 2 video game console in Japan. A North American version was…

5 July 2001

What Pipo Saru 2001 is

Pipo Saru 2001 was released in 2001. It is available on PlayStation 2 only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Pipo Saru 2001 (ピポサル2001 Pipo Saru Ni-sen Ichi) is an action video game in the Ape Escape series developed and published by SCEI for the PlayStation 2 video game console in Japan. A North American version was planned with the working title Ape Escape 2001, but it was canceled due to unknown reasons.

Description from the publisher · source

Where it sits in the Ape Escape series

Pipo Saru 2001 is the second of 16 entries we hold in the Ape Escape series. It arrived 2 years after Ape Escape. The next entry was Ape Escape 2 in 2002.

See all 16 Ape Escape games in release order →

What it launched against

Pipo Saru 2001 launched on 5 July 2001, within three weeks of Final Fantasy X, Max Payne, Mario Kart: Super Circuit and Operation Flashpoint: Cold War Crisis.

Released around the same time: Final Fantasy X, Max Payne, Mario Kart: Super Circuit, Operation Flashpoint: Cold War Crisis.

Official trailer