I think, in the Commodore 64 port, if the player could get the barrel to fall onto Bluto’s head, he was stuck that way, and Popeye could finish the level without trouble from him.
@@moviemania1137 actually, my mom died when I was young. You have zero social skills, perhaps that’s why you’re dishing out snide comments on the internet
If i was inprison and i found out about this game in one of those prison rooms, i would,ve learn how to eat alot of spinany in order to literally break out trough walls by using my fist,ahaha.
I remember we had a condo in Orlando and when we vacationed there, I would literally run to the arcade room to play this game. I think I was around 7 yrs old. I loved the 80's and wish I could go back
It's pretty clear some devs at Nintendo wanted to replicate the look of cartoons of the time and before, for instance, donkey kong, which was initially supposed to be a Popeye game, had silent cutscenes, and simple music compositions that wouldn't be out of place in a cartoon, and dk himself having a Cartoony shock expression during the end cutscene
Backthen when people were simple and high humanity, community relationship was very strong. We did not even mind to share food with neighbor or friends' children.
@@weston407 This game released in 1982 the cold was around 1985. Even during the time of the cold war, the 1980s was still far superior than anything the past 10 years had to offer.
I loved this game on my Atari 5200. Too bad we never got a perfect arcade port. Those sprite graphics are amazing especially for 1982. Thanks for posting.
@@Nikku4211is a new version for the Atari 7800 is pretty close to the original without using MAME th-cam.com/video/RJ40ZNqq6E8/w-d-xo.htmlsi=__-93UX7fw52wX6N
@@crday3090 There's a newer version for the Atari 7800 that's out. It's very good. Even has the Seahag down in the play field th-cam.com/video/RJ40ZNqq6E8/w-d-xo.htmlsi=__-93UX7fw52wX6N
Yes. This is originally what Donkey Kong was meant to be, but they couldn't get the Bluto sprite to look good so they made Mario and Donkey Kong sprites. I guess this is them proving they could do it later.
Actually, it was because Nintendo did not have permission from King Syndicates to create the game without their permission yet from what I read online. 😀
This game's graphics are weird. The character sprites are quite detailed for 1982, but then the backgrounds are really basic stuff that looks like it belongs on the 2600. It's as if it's running at two different resolutions at once. Also, this game makes great use of the Popeye license!
I think it may be due to Licensing. The Popeye character is owned by United Feature Syndicate, now part of Hearst Communications). It is possible that Nintendo has not re-released this one because they would have to pay licensing fees to this company.
I picked up one of those Super Retro-cade systems and loaded just about EVERY game on the Old Classic Retro Gaming playlist, even the 1970's games playlist. Love this channel, thanks again!
This is one of 2 games I was actually good at. Figured out the patterns on my Commodore 64 version and got high scores easily. The other one was an obscure game called Pleiades.
This was one of our only non-Mario games in the household when I was a kid, and I played the hell out of it. It has been almost 30 years, and everything came back to me like it was last week as soon as I heard the theme music. Thanks for uploading!😊
One of hardest games to beat. It is so clever. So many different types of enemies with unique movements and capabilities. Unlike super mario for example, which was also extremely difficult and also featured many types of enemies, here the enemies can actually see you and move in on you, instead of aimlessly wandering in their predefined zones and relying on you to accidently stumble on them. And I really like your strategy using the spinach when you actually need it and not necessarily when you first go near it like most people would.
i disagree with you there are many difficult games in nes which are harder than this is game such as the adventure of island as well as contra and others ,the adventure of island is extremely tricky and overwhelming ,it is incredibly long very long and if you die once you will lose your guns and is very difficult to play without gun particularly in advanced levels where touching the enemies is unavoidable and in the last zones you will be facing insane difficulties ,actually i didn't play this is game too much because i was born in 90s if i were born in 80s ,i would have played it lot because it was found in every grocery ,i think from my perspective family computer has a lot of tough games
The sprite resolution was so weird in this game. Didn't think they had such monitors in the 1982. But it's quite strange that the backgrounds are so low res in comparison.
So if nintendo made popeye their mascot instead of mario we would have stuff like Super Popeye Sunshine Super Popeye Odyssey New Super Popeye Bros. Wii and Super Popeye 3D World?Wow
Assuming they could keep getting the rights to use the Popeye character. I get it, it's weird to think of Nintendo making games with another company's IP.
It was for the best that Nintendo came up with Mario, though. He carries the same spirit as Popeye, but the world his games are set in helped the Mario series go to a completely new, original direction.
I kinda wish Nintendo or Hamster/Arcade Archives could rerelease this game on Nintendo Switch's Eshop. Nothing more satisfying then grabbing that spinach, hearing that classic Popeye themesong play, and watching Bluto/Brutus run like a coward before you nock him into the sea.
This game was the one that introduced me to Popeye The Sailor, and I’m glad it did because if I didn’t click on that random video gameplay video on TH-cam Kids. I would’ve never knew about Popeye. Okay, maybe I would, but still, I’ve been a fan ever since. And when I searched up Popeye on TH-cam Kids, I found out that it was actually a cartoon! So I started watching it, and I’m now a fan. But the thing was, I used to go to this store that had cardboard cutouts of Popeye, Olive Oyl, and Swea Pea. I always enjoyed seeing them even though I didn’t know who they were at the time.and when I got into Popeye, I realized that those characters were Popeye ones! So what I’m trying to say is Thanks for letting me know about Popeye’s existence and realizing who those cardboard cutouts were of.
This was where I first heard of Popeye... yeah, I never saw the cartoons. When I saw a Popeye cartoon on Cartoon Network in the 90s, I was like, "WHAT?"
This is how I got introduced to Popeye. I saw it in an arcade when I was like, 4, and okaa-san told me there was a Popeye cartoon. Popeye became one of the shows I watched on Cartoon Network when I was 6!
The second NES game I ever got...simple but underrated game...very fun. Should have been included on NES Classic. The graphics are basic but very bright and the music was good too. It feels like an arcade experience at home.
Man, this brings back memories. Old-school, but still always a blast! One thing I could never get over was that the biggest part of the time, the only way you got Bluto was to wait until he's practically running you over & grab the spinach (and give him no time to react/get away; at that point, his only way out is to take the hit). Other than that, good fun.
0:05-0:21, the Popeye opening titles, made famous by Fleischer Studios (Max and David Fleischer), Famous Studios (later Paramount Cartoon Studios) and Hanna-Barbera!
Dana Long really? .... is mario nintendos mascot ? .... who knew? .... i bet most people never knew mario was nintendos mascot .... thanks for telling us that
@@Shido19 how it wasn't a big movie? No it wasn't as big as good morning Vietnam but it was bigger than Mrs doubtfire.... All 3 of these were his biggest movies by the way
But the Popeye arcade game itself was released a year after Donkey Kong, two years after the Popeye live-action film was released by Paramount and Disney, four years after The All-New Popeye Hour premiered on CBS, one year before The All-New Popeye Hour was canceled, five decades after the Popeye animated shorts began, two years before Popeye's best-known voice actor Jack Mercer passed away and over 30 years before Popeye's live-action actor Robin Williams passed away.
Can anyone with functioning eyes actually read the post? It says "ORIGINALLY GOING TO BE", right there, and there's a bigger story to it as well. Nintendo wanted the license to Popeye back in 1980, but they couldn't obtain it then, so instead, Nintendo made their own characters and arcade game one year later known as Donkey Kong. They did eventually acquire the license though, and Nintendo just decided to make a Popeye game anyways. Due to Donkey Kong being what Popeye was originally meant to be, there are some clear similarities in gameplay between the two of them.
Still play this game today along with Kung Fu Master, Defender, Outrun and Chase HQ. They never grow old along with Spectrum games that I'm playing on a Nintendo DSi XL. Magic.
Wow completely forgot about this game, it's literally been 30+ years since the last time I've seen it/played it, only played it a few times but thought it was super cool.
5:42-5:50, "I'm strong to the finish, 'cause I eats the spinach. I'm Popeye the Sailor Man!"-Jack Mercer, singing the lyrics to the Sammy Lerner-composed theme song, arranged by Hanna-Barbera musical director Hoyt S. Curtin.
I remember riding my bike to the 7-11 in the summer of 82, and playing this game, and Donky Kong, Galaga, Defender, Qbert, and Joust..All my family members were still alive,and well.. My sisters and I camped out in the Florida room ( its what we called bonus/ sun rooms in Florida 😂) and watching Mtv, Great memories.. i loved my famiy so much, and miss the one's no longer with us, especially my dad, who would whoop my ass in Frogger on my Atari system 😂
Never forget: the original Donkey Kong was an emergency project to rescue this game's status as a low seller. There are leaked design docs with the Donkey Kong levels and these sprites. The secret history of Mario emerging from Popeye is amazing.
I remember it like yesterday being 1983 and obsessed with this game in the arcades. Scary thought..add the same amount of years going into the future and Ill be an 82 year old man. :(
Petition Nintendo for this. If not you can play it on MAME. I think that there is a couple of reasons why Nintendo did not re-release this game. One is that they would have to pay royalties to King Features Syndicate, which is owned by Hearst Corporation. King Features Syndicate owns the Popeye Character. I also wonder if the scenes of the bottles and pipe would cause issues with the ESRB ratings today. I wonder if this is another issue why this game is not on the arcade archives.
1983-As an 11 year old going to the video arcade spending all my quarters on this game and then pretending to cry to the arcade attendant that the machine "ate my quarter" so I can get a free play :)
The shipboard scene is ACTUALLY Sinbad the Sailor, with Rokh doing the divebombing. Listen to teh riff as Olive gets carried to the crow's nest, if ya don't believe me, it resembles "The most Remarkable, Extraordinay Fellow"!
I wasted countless quarters on this game when it came out. I never got past the 2nd stage and barely ever beat the 1st. One thing I never even though about until I played this a few weeks ago. Why the hell can't Bluto climb the top stairs in the 1st level? I'm not complaining, actually glad because that would have made an almost impossible game even harder lol. But it makes no sense. And there was way too much shit happening for a kid playing to deal with. Bluto touches you, dead. He can even reach down and touch you, still instant death. Bluto can jump, the sea hags throwing bottles. And why are there 2? There was only 1 in the damn cartoon. Then Bluto can chuck them at you too. All while trying to get hearts that fly down way too quick.
Popeye is the ultimate chad, first of all look at that perfect jawline, secondly he can go through a wall and and walk across the entire earth in a fraction of a second and come out the other side.
Yes indeed Ricky -- and to do that once you grab the spinach, I've found that's it better to try to anticipate where Bluto is going and head him off instead of chasing him, because just like the ghosts in Pac-Man when you eat the energizer, Bluto will TURN AROUND AND RUN when you get the spinach. ;-)
Used to be one of my favorite Commodore 64 cartridges back in the day...but it might have been the Colecovision version cartridge I played come to think of it.
7:08 "Now that's using your head." No lie, I remember using that same joke in the arcade in '82 when I was 10. The older kid playing thought I was clever. It meant nothing to me. And everything to me. The fog of youth.
@@tokyohanamura I wish they'd make an exception for Popeye. He's not just any licensed character. He's important to the history of Nintendo. Popeye was one of the inspirations for the game Donkey Kong. Popeye starred in a classic from the golden age of arcade games, which was ported over to several home consoles and computers. Popeye was one of the three launch titles for the Nintendo Family Computer in Japan, and had an educational spin-off game, Popeye no Eigo Asobi. Popeye was also the subject of two Game & Watch games. Popeye would be a great choice for a brawler-type character in Super Smash Bros., and a level from the Popeye arcade game would be well-suited for a Super Smash Bros. stage.
This is originally what Donkey Kong was meant to be, but they couldn't get the Bluto sprite to look good so they made Mario and Donkey Kong sprites. I guess this is them proving they could do it later.
Growing up we live a block from an arcade. I remember when the owner got this game brand new. He put in a quarter and let me play for free. I was 6 years old.
I'm Popeye the Sailor Man, I'm Popeye the Sailor Man. I'm strong to the finich Cause I eats me spinach. I'm Popeye the Sailor Man. I'm one tough Gazookus Which hates all Palookas Wot ain't on the up and square. I biffs 'em and buffs 'em And always out roughs 'em But none of 'em gets nowhere. If anyone dares to risk my "Fisk", It's "Boff" an' it's "Wham" un'erstan'? So keep "Good Be-hav-or" That's your one life saver With Popeye the Sailor Man. I'm Popeye the Sailor Man, I'm Popeye the Sailor Man. I'm strong to the finich Cause I eats me spinach. I'm Popeye the Sailor Man.
Really miss my childhood, I played this game when I was 8-10 years old. It was over than 10 years ago, I miss when my life wasn't full of crazy and stressful things
This brings back memories of playing video games at Chuck E. Cheese. This, Pac-Man, Ms. Pac-Man, Centipede, Dig Dug and Q*Bert were my favorites. I also remember a weird Pac-Man ripoff called Ladybug.
On level 2 I used to get a kick out of trapping bluto in the bottom when I got the spinach…his reaction was hilarious the closer you to him in the corner
Does anyone have any recommendations on where I can find an arcade cabinet that includes this classic?? I’ve been considering buying one of those old retro bar top arcade cabinets that has hundreds of games on it. Does anyone know if those type of cabinets include this game or have a recommendation of where to find one?
This was a early classic at the arcade...I was a kid when the first arcade games started showing up at stores...first game i remember playing was scramble. ..
Is this game available either on disc or for download somewhere for PS4? I've always loved this game and all I found was an MS-DOS watered-down on-line version of this game which didn't even compared to the original.
For an old arcade game from 1982, the sprite animations is really smooth!
Classic. Fresh in 1982, and timeless now. During the 80’s, this game was ported to a huge amount of home gaming machines.
I think, in the Commodore 64 port, if the player could get the barrel to fall onto Bluto’s head, he was stuck that way, and Popeye could finish the level without trouble from him.
Wow the sprite work in this game is incredible. Very impressive.
I read that Shigeru Miyamoto would draw frame-by-frame the characters from the show over and over when working on this game.
I like the highres sprites vs the blocky background, it's a weird look that I miss
@@PlasticCogLiquidthis look is literally so #retro if it was real
I went to prison in the 80s, and this was in one of the day rooms. We played the shit out of this game.
Ur mom must have been proud.
@@moviemania1137 actually, my mom died when I was young. You have zero social skills, perhaps that’s why you’re dishing out snide comments on the internet
@@deoglemnaco7025 Hopefully things got better for you, afterwards? Sorry about your mother, by the way.
@@synthonaplinth5980 thanks man
If i was inprison and i found out about this game in one of those prison rooms, i would,ve learn how to eat alot of spinany in order to literally break out trough walls by using my fist,ahaha.
Nostaligia...this game was one of my favorites when a i was a kid , i thought was so hard ... man i had a good childhood 🙂.
yeah i remember her too when i was kid i play her it was cool days
Man those were the days)
Me too brother /sister
Also Space Invaders and Donkey Kong! 😂 You used to be able to play them down the local park for 10p a go when I was a lad 😍
Heck yes !!!
I remember we had a condo in Orlando and when we vacationed there, I would literally run to the arcade room to play this game. I think I was around 7 yrs old. I loved the 80's and wish I could go back
man, the little tune of the hearts from the first level sounds so nostalgic, even though I never played this game as a kid
the character models look great in this, like, way ahead of their time
Sprites*
absolutely
It's pretty clear some devs at Nintendo wanted to replicate the look of cartoons of the time and before, for instance, donkey kong, which was initially supposed to be a Popeye game, had silent cutscenes, and simple music compositions that wouldn't be out of place in a cartoon, and dk himself having a Cartoony shock expression during the end cutscene
@@fco64 you know what i mean
Seriously, one of the most difficult games I ever played. I could never get past the second ship level.
Back when life was carefree and less cruel
you mean during the cold war?
Backthen when people were simple and high humanity, community relationship was very strong. We did not even mind to share food with neighbor or friends' children.
@@weston407 This game released in 1982 the cold was around 1985. Even during the time of the cold war, the 1980s was still far superior than anything the past 10 years had to offer.
@@mr_m4613 the cold War started un 1950s
@@weston407 second world war
Feels like yesterday. Then, I realized I was 8 when I played this game. How time flies.
I loved this game on my Atari 5200. Too bad we never got a perfect arcade port. Those sprite graphics are amazing especially for 1982. Thanks for posting.
The NES port was pretty good.
Yeah, a perfect port would have been impossible considering most video game systems in the 1980s did not have interlaced mode.
@@Nikku4211is a new version for the Atari 7800 is pretty close to the original without using MAME
th-cam.com/video/RJ40ZNqq6E8/w-d-xo.htmlsi=__-93UX7fw52wX6N
@@crday3090
There's a newer version for the Atari 7800 that's out. It's very good.
Even has the Seahag down in the play field
th-cam.com/video/RJ40ZNqq6E8/w-d-xo.htmlsi=__-93UX7fw52wX6N
The spritework in this game is so good, especially for '82.
Yes. This is originally what Donkey Kong was meant to be, but they couldn't get the Bluto sprite
to look good so they made Mario and Donkey Kong sprites. I guess this is them proving they could do it later.
Actually, it was because Nintendo did not have permission from King Syndicates to create the game without their permission yet from what I read online. 😀
You’re really good at playing this! This was one of my favorite games back then!
This game's graphics are weird. The character sprites are quite detailed for 1982, but then the backgrounds are really basic stuff that looks like it belongs on the 2600. It's as if it's running at two different resolutions at once. Also, this game makes great use of the Popeye license!
System limitations
This needs to be on Nintendo Arcade Archives on Switch.
They got the Donkey Kong games (DK, DK Jr & DK3) out of the way, so hopefully Popeye will be next.
I think it may be due to Licensing. The Popeye character is owned by United Feature Syndicate, now part of Hearst Communications). It is possible that Nintendo has not re-released this one because they would have to pay licensing fees to this company.
Yes they need too
@@stphinkle exactly. That's also the reason it wasn't included on the NES Classic Edition.
You're wrong stephen. King Features Syndicate owns Popeye. Not the United Feature Syndicate.
I picked up one of those Super Retro-cade systems and loaded just about EVERY game on the Old Classic Retro Gaming playlist, even the 1970's games playlist. Love this channel, thanks again!
This is one of 2 games I was actually good at. Figured out the patterns on my Commodore 64 version and got high scores easily. The other one was an obscure game called Pleiades.
WE NEED MORE GAMES LIKE THIS
I have to agree on this one.... :)
They lost the rights and that’s how donkey Kong was made
this was after donkey kong and for donkey iong they couldnt get the rights so they made mario but later they did get the rights and made this:
I played this in the Arcade in the 80's and never scored 100,000 points. Thanks for the video!
This was one of our only non-Mario games in the household when I was a kid, and I played the hell out of it. It has been almost 30 years, and everything came back to me like it was last week as soon as I heard the theme music. Thanks for uploading!😊
One of hardest games to beat. It is so clever. So many different types of enemies with unique movements and capabilities. Unlike super mario for example, which was also extremely difficult and also featured many types of enemies, here the enemies can actually see you and move in on you, instead of aimlessly wandering in their predefined zones and relying on you to accidently stumble on them. And I really like your strategy using the spinach when you actually need it and not necessarily when you first go near it like most people would.
i disagree with you there are many difficult games in nes which are harder than this is game such as the adventure of island as well as contra and others ,the adventure of island is extremely tricky and overwhelming ,it is incredibly long very long and if you die once you will lose your guns and is very difficult to play without gun particularly in advanced levels where touching the enemies is unavoidable and in the last zones you will be facing insane difficulties ,actually i didn't play this is game too much because i was born in 90s if i were born in 80s ,i would have played it lot because it was found in every grocery ,i think from my perspective family computer has a lot of tough games
I remember playing this game on the arcade when I was seven, so many fond memories of those days
The sprite resolution was so weird in this game. Didn't think they had such monitors in the 1982. But it's quite strange that the backgrounds are so low res in comparison.
just thinking exactly that.
arcade
It's due to storage limitations, higher res backgrounds were possible, but the other sprites took too much storage
The person playing the game in this video is really good. I remember this being a very difficult game.
One of my favorite games in the eighties I spent costless hours in the arcade on
So if nintendo made popeye their mascot instead of mario we would have stuff like Super Popeye Sunshine Super Popeye Odyssey New Super Popeye Bros. Wii and Super Popeye 3D World?Wow
Assuming they could keep getting the rights to use the Popeye character. I get it, it's weird to think of Nintendo making games with another company's IP.
I'd imagine they would have brought the IP outright.
MANROCK GAMING Popeye for ssbu
It was for the best that Nintendo came up with Mario, though. He carries the same spirit as Popeye, but the world his games are set in helped the Mario series go to a completely new, original direction.
Also Super Popeye Galaxy, Captain Swee'Pea Treasure Track, Wimpy Island
I kinda wish Nintendo or Hamster/Arcade Archives could rerelease this game on Nintendo Switch's Eshop. Nothing more satisfying then grabbing that spinach, hearing that classic Popeye themesong play, and watching Bluto/Brutus run like a coward before you nock him into the sea.
I like the fact that Bluto/Brutus tries to runway from Popeye after getting the spinach
This game was the one that introduced me to Popeye The Sailor, and I’m glad it did because if I didn’t click on that random video gameplay video on TH-cam Kids. I would’ve never knew about Popeye. Okay, maybe I would, but still, I’ve been a fan ever since. And when I searched up Popeye on TH-cam Kids, I found out that it was actually a cartoon! So I started watching it, and I’m now a fan. But the thing was, I used to go to this store that had cardboard cutouts of Popeye, Olive Oyl, and Swea Pea. I always enjoyed seeing them even though I didn’t know who they were at the time.and when I got into Popeye, I realized that those characters were Popeye ones! So what I’m trying to say is Thanks for letting me know about Popeye’s existence and realizing who those cardboard cutouts were of.
The combination of wonderful sprite work and the Atari 2600-esque backgrounds is so jarring.
Kind of wished Nintendo did more with Popeye. It was the inspiration for Donkey Kong and a favorite cartoon for the creator.
This was where I first heard of Popeye... yeah, I never saw the cartoons. When I saw a Popeye cartoon on Cartoon Network in the 90s, I was like, "WHAT?"
When I was about ten yrs old I used to play this at the local Taco Johns on my hometown. Great times !
*Wow what City and State !??? Robot Nutz !*
Heh, I used to play this at my Orthodontist's.. at least they had made it free.
This is how I got introduced to Popeye. I saw it in an arcade when I was like, 4, and okaa-san told me there was a Popeye cartoon. Popeye became one of the shows I watched on Cartoon Network when I was 6!
My favorite arcade game ever, anytime I go to one of those bar arcade joints this is the first game I look for.
The second NES game I ever got...simple but underrated game...very fun. Should have been included on NES Classic. The graphics are basic but very bright and the music was good too. It feels like an arcade experience at home.
Probably wasn't due to rights issues (Popeye's still copyrighted in the U.S. and the rights holders are notoriously stingy with it).
Man, this brings back memories. Old-school, but still always a blast! One thing I could never get over was that the biggest part of the time, the only way you got Bluto was to wait until he's practically running you over & grab the spinach (and give him no time to react/get away; at that point, his only way out is to take the hit). Other than that, good fun.
0:05-0:21, the Popeye opening titles, made famous by Fleischer Studios (Max and David Fleischer), Famous Studios (later Paramount Cartoon Studios) and Hanna-Barbera!
This game is better than the nintendo switch version
In fact, the Switch version is a poor man's attempt at remaking the original arcade game lol
The resolution of the character sprites is really high for a game made in 1983.
I remember playing this at Topsail Beach at the patio playground. Simple but great fun at the beach with family.
Had this on Commodore64 and still have it on NES.
crazy to think that if not for liscensing issues we would have had popeye be nintendos mascot.
Instead, Mario became Nintendo's mascot, and Mario has remained Nintendo's mascot ever since!
Dana Long really? .... is mario nintendos mascot ? .... who knew? .... i bet most people never knew mario was nintendos mascot .... thanks for telling us that
Darren Davenport I didn’t know, I only know Nintendo for making the Popeyes game, lol
That still wouldn’t have been the case specifically for the licensing issues that would crop up from that.
That likely would have NOT happened, since Popeye was owned by United Features Syndicate.
popeye needs atleast 1 big movie. he's so much an underated cartoon.makes me smiles bringa back lot of memories when i watch this.
he had 1 Robin Williams played him
@@SupremeNerd yeah, but it wasnt a "big movie"
@@Shido19 how it wasn't a big movie? No it wasn't as big as good morning Vietnam but it was bigger than Mrs doubtfire.... All 3 of these were his biggest movies by the way
The Popeye characters were originally going to be used in the game that later became Donkey Kong.
But the Popeye arcade game itself was released a year after Donkey Kong, two years after the Popeye live-action film was released by Paramount and Disney, four years after The All-New Popeye Hour premiered on CBS, one year before The All-New Popeye Hour was canceled, five decades after the Popeye animated shorts began, two years before Popeye's best-known voice actor Jack Mercer passed away and over 30 years before Popeye's live-action actor Robin Williams passed away.
But Donkey Kong Came First
Wrong!
Can anyone with functioning eyes actually read the post? It says "ORIGINALLY GOING TO BE", right there, and there's a bigger story to it as well.
Nintendo wanted the license to Popeye back in 1980, but they couldn't obtain it then, so instead, Nintendo made their own characters and arcade game one year later known as Donkey Kong. They did eventually acquire the license though, and Nintendo just decided to make a Popeye game anyways. Due to Donkey Kong being what Popeye was originally meant to be, there are some clear similarities in gameplay between the two of them.
Solar Flare [Who likes uploading SSBU replays] i would say this game played more like a playform version of pacman than DK
Still play this game today along with Kung Fu Master, Defender, Outrun and Chase HQ. They never grow old along with Spectrum games that I'm playing on a Nintendo DSi XL. Magic.
It took a real pro to finish this game, almost like it wrote the whole game!
Wow completely forgot about this game, it's literally been 30+ years since the last time I've seen it/played it, only played it a few times but thought it was super cool.
5:42-5:50, "I'm strong to the finish, 'cause I eats the spinach. I'm Popeye the Sailor Man!"-Jack Mercer, singing the lyrics to the Sammy Lerner-composed theme song, arranged by Hanna-Barbera musical director Hoyt S. Curtin.
I remember riding my bike to the 7-11 in the summer of 82, and playing this game, and Donky Kong, Galaga, Defender, Qbert, and Joust..All my family members were still alive,and well.. My sisters and I camped out in the Florida room ( its what we called bonus/ sun rooms in Florida 😂) and watching Mtv, Great memories.. i loved my famiy so much, and miss the one's no longer with us, especially my dad, who would whoop my ass in Frogger on my Atari system 😂
Aw man just hearing the sound effects makes me smile! Great memories!
omg... the first video game I play in my life
I wonder why the background pixels were bigger. Maybe to save time or memory space, or both?
damn, miss the game used to play it back in the old days
The best soundtrack of any video game of its era.
Never forget: the original Donkey Kong was an emergency project to rescue this game's status as a low seller. There are leaked design docs with the Donkey Kong levels and these sprites. The secret history of Mario emerging from Popeye is amazing.
I remember it like yesterday being 1983 and obsessed with this game in the arcades. Scary thought..add the same amount of years going into the future and Ill be an 82 year old man. :(
Arcade archives should release this on nintendo switch
Petition Nintendo for this. If not you can play it on MAME. I think that there is a couple of reasons why Nintendo did not re-release this game. One is that they would have to pay royalties to King Features Syndicate, which is owned by Hearst Corporation. King Features Syndicate owns the Popeye Character. I also wonder if the scenes of the bottles and pipe would cause issues with the ESRB ratings today. I wonder if this is another issue why this game is not on the arcade archives.
1983-As an 11 year old going to the video arcade spending all my quarters on this game and then pretending to cry to the arcade attendant that the machine "ate my quarter" so I can get a free play :)
Whoever’s playing this game is really good
I still remember playing this in college. It had a quaint charm to it. I still remember the bouncing skulls lol!
The shipboard scene is ACTUALLY Sinbad the Sailor, with Rokh doing the divebombing. Listen to teh riff as Olive gets carried to the crow's nest, if ya don't believe me, it resembles "The most Remarkable, Extraordinay Fellow"!
Playing it in 2021 and it’s still freakin hard!
i remember play this game on my nintendo in the 90's
is there any version or readaptation for the N-DS? Gosh, ti brings me back to dacades ago :D
Nintendo gonna release a remaster of this on the Switch store this week
I wasted countless quarters on this game when it came out. I never got past the 2nd stage and barely ever beat the 1st.
One thing I never even though about until I played this a few weeks ago. Why the hell can't Bluto climb the top stairs in the 1st level? I'm not complaining, actually glad because that would have made an almost impossible game even harder lol. But it makes no sense.
And there was way too much shit happening for a kid playing to deal with. Bluto touches you, dead. He can even reach down and touch you, still instant death. Bluto can jump, the sea hags throwing bottles. And why are there 2? There was only 1 in the damn cartoon. Then Bluto can chuck them at you too. All while trying to get hearts that fly down way too quick.
Whoever is behind the controls of this game is very talented.
Definitely one of the best videogame I ever played.
Wow! That's much harder (and graphically richer) than the versions they made for the consoles.
Popeye is the ultimate chad, first of all look at that perfect jawline, secondly he can go through a wall and and walk across the entire earth in a fraction of a second and come out the other side.
And since he keeps one eye closed, no one notices the canthal tilt.
Now you've just made me realize that most of the time his mouth is closed...
Popeye is Mewing???
Actually he had tumors on both of his arms and one in his brain.....He didn't live past the 40s unfortunately.
Wow!! Such Great Memories this brings Back"
I was 8 years old and visiting my Grandparents in West Covina, California 👍👍👍🌞🌞
Loved playing this game in the bowling alley
A Long Time arcade favorite!! Such great skill on display in this video
The sound when Bluto gets knocked into the water is cool 😎
Yes indeed Ricky -- and to do that once you grab the spinach, I've found that's it better to try to anticipate where Bluto is going and head him off instead of chasing him, because just like the ghosts in Pac-Man when you eat the energizer, Bluto will TURN AROUND AND RUN when you get the spinach. ;-)
Richard Santalone But then you miss out on lots of bonus points.
Used to be one of my favorite Commodore 64 cartridges back in the day...but it might have been the Colecovision version cartridge I played come to think of it.
Great playing!! Incredible challenges and you did amazing!
7:08 "Now that's using your head." No lie, I remember using that same joke in the arcade in '82 when I was 10. The older kid playing thought I was clever. It meant nothing to me. And everything to me. The fog of youth.
Popeye for the next smash bros, make it happen Nintendo.
They'd have ask permission from King Features first
Doesn’t originate from a game. One of Sakurai’s golden rules (even though he broke it with Dr. Kawashima)
@@tokyohanamura I wish they'd make an exception for Popeye. He's not just any licensed character. He's important to the history of Nintendo. Popeye was one of the inspirations for the game Donkey Kong. Popeye starred in a classic from the golden age of arcade games, which was ported over to several home consoles and computers. Popeye was one of the three launch titles for the Nintendo Family Computer in Japan, and had an educational spin-off game, Popeye no Eigo Asobi. Popeye was also the subject of two Game & Watch games. Popeye would be a great choice for a brawler-type character in Super Smash Bros., and a level from the Popeye arcade game would be well-suited for a Super Smash Bros. stage.
Ginormousaurus very aware of the full story on how Mario & Donkey Kong came to be, but Popeye still doesn’t follow the golden rule :(
And the spinach can as a power up item.
I was 10 years old when I played this game. Now I’m 37:(
0:19 the sound is the same as mappy land
1:36
ブルートの昇龍拳
メタルギア（ファミコン版）と魂斗羅（ファミコン版）とグラディウスⅡ（ファミコン版）他をやるは許さんぞ！
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ブルートのドスコイアタック
メタルギア（ファミコン版）と魂斗羅（ファミコン版）とグラディウスⅡ（ファミコン版）他をやるは許さんぞ！
When Bluto punches down he is terrifying.
Fun fact: Miyamoto was going to make something like this, but didn't have the rights, and hence made Donkey Kong, where Mario would later be popular.
This is originally what Donkey Kong was meant to be, but they couldn't get the Bluto sprite
to look good so they made Mario and Donkey Kong sprites. I guess this is them proving they could do it later.
Growing up we live a block from an arcade. I remember when the owner got this game brand new. He put in a quarter and let me play for free. I was 6 years old.
Omg...loved this game...many of quarters went into this...the simple days
Whomever was playing this was a master! I would have never gotten that far!!
I'm Popeye the Sailor Man,
I'm Popeye the Sailor Man.
I'm strong to the finich
Cause I eats me spinach.
I'm Popeye the Sailor Man.
I'm one tough Gazookus
Which hates all Palookas
Wot ain't on the up and square.
I biffs 'em and buffs 'em
And always out roughs 'em
But none of 'em gets nowhere.
If anyone dares to risk my "Fisk",
It's "Boff" an' it's "Wham" un'erstan'?
So keep "Good Be-hav-or"
That's your one life saver
With Popeye the Sailor Man.
I'm Popeye the Sailor Man,
I'm Popeye the Sailor Man.
I'm strong to the finich
Cause I eats me spinach.
I'm Popeye the Sailor Man.
Really miss my childhood, I played this game when I was 8-10 years old. It was over than 10 years ago, I miss when my life wasn't full of crazy and stressful things
I hope someday this game comes to arcade archives.
This brings back memories of playing video games at Chuck E. Cheese. This, Pac-Man, Ms. Pac-Man, Centipede, Dig Dug and Q*Bert were my favorites. I also remember a weird Pac-Man ripoff called Ladybug.
Pacman is decent and all, but to me, Mappy(Another Namco Arcade game) is so much better than Pacman.
Remember Mousetrap? Think that was Colecovision though
What's the use of punching bluto when he gonna get right back up
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虚無僧ブルート
メタルギア（ファミコン版）と魂斗羅（ファミコン版）とグラディウスⅡ（ファミコン版）をやるは許さんぞ！
On level 2 I used to get a kick out of trapping bluto in the bottom when I got the spinach…his reaction was hilarious the closer you to him in the corner
Does anyone have any recommendations on where I can find an arcade cabinet that includes this classic??
I’ve been considering buying one of those old retro bar top arcade cabinets that has hundreds of games on it. Does anyone know if those type of cabinets include this game or have a recommendation of where to find one?
This was a early classic at the arcade...I was a kid when the first arcade games started showing up at stores...first game i remember playing was scramble. ..
Is this game available either on disc or for download somewhere for PS4? I've always loved this game and all I found was an MS-DOS watered-down on-line version of this game which didn't even compared to the original.
try MAME
The problem with Nintendo making this game available again is that they would have to re-license the Popeye character in order to re-release it.
Romsmania
The only moment I was not afraid of pluto is when I used to get the spinach😂😂 Nostalgia🥺
Thanks this game i had an illumination.I was a gamer and this never Will be over in my entire life