Question: What year was the console for which Rugrats in Paris: The Movie video game was planned to be released but cancelled itself released in Japan
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Licensed third party re-releases of the console are still being produced, and several indie game developers continue to produce games for it.  Many games have also been re-released in compilations for newer consoles and offered for download on various digital distribution services, such as Virtual Console, Xbox Live Arcade, PlayStation Network, and Steam. Rugrats Royal Ransom is a 2002 action-adventure game developed by Avalanche Software and published by THQ for the PlayStation 2 and GameCube.  The game was released on November 26, 2002, and is based on the "Rugrats" television series, which ran from 1991 to 2004 on Nickelodeon.  The game's plot is loosely based on "".  It is also the first and only Rugrats video game on the PlayStation 2 and Nintendo GameCube, as well as the last Rugrats video game on home consoles. ApeXtreme (pronounced 'A-peks-schreem') is a cancelled video game console that was developed by Apex Digital.  While the console made a promising first appearance at the Consumer Electronics Show in January 2004, it had been cancelled by December of that year.  The console was based on VIA's Glory Personal Gaming Console Platform, and would have included a keyboard, mouse, game controller and a remote control. Rugrats in Paris: The Movie is a video game based on the from the Nickelodeon animated series, "Rugrats".  The game follows the adventures of a group of young children in a European theme park.  The game was released in 2000, for the PlayStation, Nintendo 64, and Game Boy Color.  A version for Microsoft Windows was later released in 2001.  A Sega Dreamcast version of the game was planned to be made, but it was later cancelled.
Answer: 1998