Piposaru Academia is a mini-game compilation for the PlayStation Portable where players embody characters from the Ape Escape series. Engaging in various classes represented as mini-games, players navigate a 9x9 grid to complete challenges and score lines. Game types include quizzes, sports, and whimsical tasks such as guarding bananas and delivering parachutes to falling monkeys.
Ape Escape Academy sees you taking on the role of one of the cheeky monkeys from the Ape Escape series. Choose your chimp, then prepare to tackle various classes in Academy Mode. Each 'class' is actually a mini-game. Your goal is to complete as many mini-games as possible from the 9x9 grid, and score as many lines as you can (sort of like Noughts and Crosses). Mini-games range from mind-bending quizzes to wacky sports games, to the just plain silly, like protecting a roast banana from oncoming apes, or flying through the sky delivering parachutes to plummeting primates.