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Popeye

Developer / Publisher: Nintendo
December 1982
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98 Ratings / 1 Reviews
#4,691 All-time
#22 for 1982
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Single-screen platformer#32
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Comedy
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Popeye
1982 • Nintendo  
JP
Popeye
1982 • Nintendo  
XNA
Popeye
1983 • Parker Brothers  
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0 73000 09510 9
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Popeye
1983 • Parker Brothers  
Cartridge
XNA 0 73000 01150 5
ポパイ
1983 • Nintendo  
Cartridge
JP HVC-PP
Popeye
1983 • Nintendo Parker Brothers  
Cartridge
XNA
Popeye
1986 • Nintendo  
Cartridge
XNA 0 45469 63023 2
Popeye
1990 • Nintendo  
Cartridge
ES 0 45496 63023 2 NES-PP-ESP
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Kind of inadvertedly, Popeye belongs to a "trilogy" of Donkey Kong games, building on the gameplay precedents of Donkey Kong and Donkey Kong Jr., which is just more enhanced by the idea that Popeye should've been the stand-in for Mario originally(and besides, it's not a coincidence that the Famicom launch titles have been those three games specifically). Like the Donkey Kong games your objective is bound to a single screen location with levels of platforms and climbable obstacles, only the objective here is to collect various objects Olive Oyl throws your way, instead of reaching the top as in Donkey Kong games.

Unlike the Donkey Kong games where the goal was to climb up, tracing the trickling hearts/musical notes/letters forces you to shift focus to climbing both up and down, while the semi-intelligent AI of Brutus comes to chase you through all the way in a Pac-Man vein(even the spinnach is practically a power-pellet stand-in). This is some deliberately cool stuff, though the arcade version as its predecessors comes off as too bloody hard, and the spinnach does not help.

The NES port curbs that difficulty to a managable and enjoyable level, by placing the Sea Hag to the second round and significantly toning down Brutus' aggression.

The Atari 5200 port is terrible, what the hell happened here
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tinobm Popeye 2024-03-20T21:02:44Z
2024-03-20T21:02:44Z
2.5
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maidenutah Popeye 2024-03-10T19:39:47Z
2024-03-10T19:39:47Z
2.0
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ruledbysecrecy Popeye 2024-03-04T18:14:09Z
2024-03-04T18:14:09Z
40
1
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modernvvonder Popeye 2024-02-28T14:35:58Z
2024-02-28T14:35:58Z
2.0
In collection Want to buy Used to own  
hevykofe Popeye 2024-01-14T06:33:22Z
Arcade • JP
2024-01-14T06:33:22Z
In collection Want to buy Used to own  
DL95 Popeye 2024-01-04T00:59:00Z
2024-01-04T00:59:00Z
3.5
In collection Want to buy Used to own  
angerwolf Popeye 2023-12-29T09:50:41Z
2023-12-29T09:50:41Z
1.0
In collection Want to buy Used to own  
Zippybing Popeye 2023-12-20T02:55:31Z
NES • XNA
2023-12-20T02:55:31Z
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Everdrive_NES+FDS
Yvonnelim99 Popeye 2023-11-15T14:54:16Z
2023-11-15T14:54:16Z
3.0
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sp4cetiger Popeye 2023-11-14T03:35:11Z
2023-11-14T03:35:11Z
2.0
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iibrvkenlxng Popeye 2023-10-13T17:05:55Z
2023-10-13T17:05:55Z
3.5
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BanjoGuitarStringHarakir Popeye 2023-08-18T18:59:06Z
2023-08-18T18:59:06Z
3.0
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