NES Longplay [053] Popeye

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Another arcade classic. Played on A and B modes -
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[@gregorij225]

I remember playing this game on my fake console which had over 100 games on one cartridge. Fun times!

[@dawidtan8]

What Name LOL

[@felixel3254]

@@dawidtan8 Polystation

[@dawidtan8]

@@felixel3254 Thank You

[@LightThegh0st]

I played it too but on a pirate Game boy it was my favorite

[@awesome1ru]

LMFAO mine could play both nes & snes games

[@beauwalker9820]

It's so gratifying to send Brutus flying across the screen, and into the sea.

[@thunderpigeon6950]

The name is Bluto.

[@leecarterreppinjesuschrist7686]

Yea I used to argue with a bloke at work over Bluetooth and Brutus. Jesus Christ is the way

[@eluard9238]

And he's called "kabasakal" (thick beard) in my country.

[@しげふー推し]

@@thunderpigeon6950 アニメではブルートだけど、ゲームではブルータスなんだよ。

[@skinnyweenie8679]

​@@thunderpigeon6950 Bluto is more muscular and has his eyes always close. This here is Brutus who's fatter and has silly looking eyes.

[@MarKVeal]

Wow me encantaba este juego muchísimo! Cuánta nostalgia, lo jugábamos siempre con mi hermano mayor, qué tiempos aquellos, mi primo era un experto en éste título.

[@kevinsmith4447]

This sound when musical notes fall down the bottom is unforgettable

[@ClassicTVMan1981X]

Hurry up!

[@UncoveredSecrets]

Remembering my childhood days , Playing this game after coming from school, mom shouting from kitchen, mom brings hot snacks for me, brother see how I play, grandfather's friend sitting outside in chair chatting with him, Grandma reading book, street ice cream bell rings, pauses the game, grandfather buys ice cream for me, Continue the game , Mom tells this is the last game . Miss my old days. I feel like crying.

[@theBeT95]

hey i feel you :) hehe

[@andrewnanda9392]

shit man i cried, i feel it too bro:')

[@zenox3622]

😢

[@Pexsi]

I CRY MAN 😢

[@Koray007]

Same here bro

[@NemeanLion-]

This is one of the best arcade transfers I remember from that time period. Very well done.

[@Clery75019]

The game was ported on NES by Toshihiko Nakago, who 18 months later, will become the lead programmer of Super Mario Bros.

[@NemeanLion-]

@@Clery75019 cool info, thanks

[@SonicXSTH]

Oh, I remember this game!!! Used to play it on my Famicom!!!

[@Gxhbro]

YOU MUST BR JAPANESE.....I PLAY THIS ON MY BOOTLEG NES

[@sketchturner73]

@@Gxhbro I had a bootleg too it was based on famicom design and it was named family game

[@anirudhsathe9045]

NES

[@whitepeppers]

I loved playing this game. One of my favorites.

[@HooperTheUpupa]

You can hit Bottles, Skulls, Bucket and Bernard the Vulture without spinach.

[@katieb777]

wow you have one heck of a memory to remember details like that from a game thats 39 yrs old ! lol

[@JP_Wu]

@@katieb777 But that is easy to remember as it was a basic part of the gameplay.

[@knight_owl7020]

@@katieb777 isn't the Sea Hag on the NES version?

[@harshvaish5395]

You are late bro to tell us about this fact lol

[@dawrath57]

I think it sucked that just by being touched by Brutus kills popeye. What the hell was popeyes fist made of without spinach ?

[@bilalcakir5750]

Childhood memories to the Max, couldn't afford a Nintendo and there was no NES overseas, just the bootleg version with a cartridge full of hundreds of NES games, this one, tank, track and field, motocross, circus, Jung fu, Dr Mario, and the list goes on, life wasn't a out internet connection and downloading, it was a simple, connect to TV, turn on channel, play the games, no save needed, finish, pack up and switch to narmal channel before dad comes home to watch the news. Miss those days

[@Villanovafan73]

I spent so many quarters on this game in the arcade years ago, I still play it on the NES from time to time.

[@JaylaisAwesome]

Lucky!

[@Evarace]

Ahhhh, I missed this game so dearly. I really missed the childhood days.

[@charliewrong1]

Nostalgia is a file that removes the rough edges from the good old days. Doug Larson

[@paullarue2010]

Popeye punches Bluto, after eating a can of spinach.

[@theotherky]

You can just smell the Donkey Kong seeds being planted.

[@mistresskixen6142]

Donkey Kong came one year before this seeing as it was made in 1981 where as this was made in 1982.

[@rockoorbe2002]

@@mistresskixen6142 that's factually accurate. However it's my understanding that the idea for Popeye came before Donkey Kong but because Nintendo could not secure the license in time Popeye turned into Donkey Kong. That being said, I'm glad that they did manage to create Popeye.

[@ClassicTVMan1981X]

@@rockoorbe2002 That's correct, Shigeru Miyamoto wanted to do a Popeye video game for Nintendo in 1980; however, the license they had at the time only applied to the playing cards, but did not extend to video games so the idea was changed into a King Kong-like game (a man saves a woman captured by a gorilla), hence Donkey Kong. After Donkey Kong's success, King Features/Hearst Entertainment finally allowed Nintendo to make a Popeye video game, which came out in the fall of 1982, just months after Donkey Kong Junior.

[@JaxCoolKartunes]

@@ClassicTVMan1981X Actually KFS allowed Nintendo to use there Properties for more Media but at the time they were working on they couldn't get the characters to look accurate so they had to abandon the idea of a Popeye game until the Technology got better than They made "Table Kong Game" which they later renamed to "Donkey Kong" during development due to the name being lame and them putting out a list of potential names for the game which had to have something Comical in it and the word "Kong" in it too The name that was the best was "Donkey Kong" then yeah there is more information out there.

[@ClassicTVMan1981X]

@@JaxCoolKartunes Correct, it was not until things like Radar Scope and Donkey Kong that Nintendo had more involvement in the design of the game than did Ikegami, the programming house responsible for all Nintendo games up to Donkey Kong. After Donkey Kong's success, Nintendo shoved Ikegami off to the side, but it would come back to bite them after the release of Donkey Kong Jr. when Ikegami filed suit in 1983.

[@Msciwoj-j4x]

I remember back in Poland, I found this game in a cartridge called "500 in 1" .. because it literally had 500 games on it, including this one :D It was so addicting

[@ryxarkhalyx]

In indonesia also have lot of that kind of cartridge too, example 100 in 1 etc xD

[@Msciwoj-j4x]

Nostalgia For Infinity yes this is possible ... I also remember the game being very corrupted and constantly messing up during gameplay

[@HenryPrasistaKurniawan]

One of the best 8 bit song

[@danalong1237]

Actually, it's a rearrangement of Sammy Lerner's "I'm Popeye the Sailor Man," arranged for the Paramount-released cartoons by Sammy Timberg during the Fleischer era and Winston Sharples during the Famous era and for the Hanna-Barbera era by Hoyt Curtin.

[@Marcin-ex9xb]

True :)

[@untalchavoruco]

magnifico videojuego de la epoca de los 80s

[@jacobturner3059]

Fun fact: when the Nintendo Family Computer (the NES’s Japanese counterpart) was released in 1983, the console’s first launch titles were this, Donkey Kong, and Donkey Kong Jr.

[@pablomovil86]

I'm glad they've acknowledged this on the Nintendo Museum

[@Peter_1986]

This game was one of the launch titles for the Famicom, along with "Donkey Kong" and "Donkey Kong Jr.".

[@mspeter97]

The famicom didn't have the strongest of lineups at first yeah. Mario Bros came a few months later. Out of the 3 games they released at launch, Popeye is the most fun

[@Peter_1986]

@@mspeter97 The launch titles for the Famicom are quite fun, my main problem with them is that they were too similar to each other - it would've been enough to have "Donkey Kong" as the platformer, and then the other titles should have been something different, like maybe "Pacman" or something.

[@САШКАСЕРАГОВ-ч4ш]

I always loved watching the bucket go on Bluto's head.

[@tiemnokryskin]

In the early 90s, we didn't know who Popeye was yet. ) These cartoons were not well known in former USSR. However, the game often came across to us on Chinese cartridges. We found the game weird - but we still liked it.

[@celinesenden4142]

The orginal arcade machine is amazing 👍🏻🎵🎶🎵💘💘

[@Hanedan1912]

You can punch bottle, skull and vulture, no need spinach

[@christopherniewiadomski4075]

Yeah, wanted to write the same :)

[@knowerall8171]

can u punch bluto

[@princo705]

& Bucket too

[@averythecoolcat]

@@knowerall8171 Not without spinach, you can hit everything else, though.

[@averythecoolcat]

@Skua Bird UTTP THDTC He's called Brutus or Bluto. Depends on which era of cartoons you watch.

[@62202ify]

Also here's a trick for the Spinach, when you eat the Spinach and the music plays, wait just below the last step for Bluto and as he nears, come up and punch him, he goes flying up to the right, hits the Olive house, bounces off, then hits the Popeye house and cartwheels into the water, it's hilarious.

[@addisonfung5009]

Good idea! The closer Bluto is near you and the spinach, the easier for you to punch Bluto!

[@nightwave6963]

Used to play this one with my grandson back in the day, I'm getting old

[@elcantante.9303]

Me llevaste a los mejores años de mi vida ....

[@Alamyst2011]

I love when games were like this.

[@ZeldasFinalFantasy]

SO many memories with this game ... damn

[@ExplorerDS6789]

Used to rent this game from Blockbuster back in 1993. One day, when they were phasing out their NES games, and we asked for it, we got to buy the game for $10.

[@vijaybamaniya9734]

2:56...that gives heart attack

[@cunadorandom]

aún recuerdo cuando lo jugaba de pequeño en el recopilatiorio de juegos k tenía

[@Sliider36]

geeez, there's so many NES games i've never even heard of. and i grew up in the 80s playing nintendo constantly, still do.

[@philiphanan1493]

Same. Also, the older I get, the more games interest me. I used to only like platform games, then beat-em ups, then got into sports games, and now am into game show games like MTV's Remote Control.

[@ahrichards5241]

Nintendo' best arcade port. Period.

[@unknownunknownseries2098]

GENOBOT: not today, twilight sparks...NEVER!

[@ahrichards5241]

Marco Cicerone Omg haha I forgot to change my avatar! better do that!

[@unknownunknownseries2098]

+124scratch sorry bad english, i'm an italian, from sicily.

[@danalong1237]

This Arcade port of Popeye is Nintendo's best, notably due to the E.C. Segar-created characters such as Bluto, Olive Oyl, Swee'Pea, J. Wellington Wimpy and the muscle-bound sailor man himself!

[@ahrichards5241]

Dana Long I wasn't talking about the inclusion of Popeye characters, I was talking about accuracy to the arcade version (despite having half the screen resolution of the original)

[@AgosLive]

Shiit bro!! I used to play this as a kid:( I still remember the soundtrack: tananatanana tanananananananananaananananana

[@eleanorhogan8643]

This game needs to be relaunched on the new consoles.

[@TheDgkk]

Omg...its awesome! Nostalgie, i remember this game..

[@BoredbroDotCom]

One of my favorite childhood games :D

[@anthonyugarte64]

Que buenos recuerdos :')

[@lilc8264]

;-;

[@Jose-oz1by]

This bring me back beautiful memories :')

[@sriramn167]

Good old days❤️

[@danalong1237]

From 0:00-4:53, it just looks like a Popeye short film starring the voices of the late Jack Mercer as Popeye, the late Mae Questel as Olive Oyl and the late Jackson Beck as Bluto! Paramount presents Popeye the Sailor. Color by Technicolor. A Famous Studios Production by arrangement with King Features Syndicate. Director: I. Sparber Animators: Don Patterson, Grant Simmons and Ray Patterson Story: Jack Mercer Music: Winston Sharples (C)1952 Paramount Pictures Corporation. All Rights Reserved.

[@pablofran]

You’re a good player! Love this game at the bar

[@gmed7092]

Este video se deberia llamar NOSTALGIA

[@curtdragon8785]

Always liked this when I was a kid 🎮👍😎

[@wincho513]

Of crouse

[@GSS1Sirius]

I played this like crazy in my younger days. Unfortunately my game was stolen. Still to this day I sometimes gets the urge to play this again. I wish Nintendo could add this to their Switch online.

[@Brony2002]

That would be amazing. Maybe they could even add NES Golf to Switch Online.

[@echotalechara3468]

minutes when Olivia say Help me, marina joyce is everywhere

[@nickperkins8477]

Played for hours!! So much fun.

[@ultraenergy313]

This somehow feels better than watching PUBG or Fortnite gameplay for me

[@helpmeget1millionsubscribe983]

Yeah, it's satisfying. Also, this game has better visuals that PUBG.

[@Jax-vi6tk]

Watching PUBG and Fortnite is boring

[@badalmota3833]

True

[@thegamergods7025]

@@Jax-vi6tk It's like watching 128 people rape wild animals and then commit suicide shortly after.

[@scorpionswimmer828]

Aaahhh My Childhood Memories Are Back

[@toddburgess5056]

I never had the opportunity to try this game out, had to take a peek. Looks hard AF with little rewards 😁

[@ReesesBees]

Oh, trust me. It was fucking DIFFICULT.

[@jaekoff5050]

Fun fact, this is one of the first 3 games EVER for the NES, along with Donkey Kong and Donkey Kong JR in 1983

[@123TauruZ321]

So Bluto is throwing empty beer bottles - good influence for kids.

[@unknownunknownseries2098]

but bluto is a morbidly obese fat man.

[@123TauruZ321]

Marco Cicerone That too.

[@unknownunknownseries2098]

+123TauruZ321 thanks! dispenser comming later!

[@gregorya.champion3784]

I remember the days I would play hooky from school to play this at a grocery store lol

[@porcorosso81]

Partly yes. But you also have to consider that Arcade games sold for much more money, so the engineers had a much higher budget to build more sophisticated graphics and sound hardware. Btw, Popeye is the very first Famicom/NES game programmed. Back when Nintendo was showing the Famicom prototype to Atari, this was the game which ran on it.

[@KareemHillJr]

This game was my first exposure to Popeye the Sailor Man, and I was already familiar with the chicken chain, so I thought this game was an ad for Popeyes Chicken at first.

[@AJ6spd]

One of my favourites!

[@priyankasharma-mw4hn]

I love Popeye!!

[@Kenza1984]

one of my fav games ever...

[@angelinajosephines]

I love this music when the alphabet in water

[@porcorosso81]

Sorry, Popeye and Donkey Kong JR ran on the NES/Famicom prototype which was shown to Atari. These (along with Donkey Kong) are also the only NES games which have a "1982" copyright date, although the Famicom was released in 1983 in Japan. But fact remains that Popeye was already done before the final chips were being made. The NES/Famicom prototype consisted of multiple, hand-wired, boards which would later become the PPU and CPU chips.

[@susanfit47]

God, I want to hook up my Nintendo, get this game and play it in the living in my house soon as well as the 4th coming Retro Duo Portable.

[@SmooveShotta]

Popeye working hard for her love

[@mr.napoleon6235]

THIS NEEDS A REMASTER

[@seriousspikesam7770]

There is one... unfortunately, it's complete shovelware.

[@Icedude32]

this game has some inspired elements of donkey kong,but still looks like it's own game... nice :)

[@BrettGibbs-ns8vo]

This game is the reason Donkey Kong and Mario exist.

[@luisfcr10]

You can punch the skulls, hammers and the vulture without the spinach

[@langleyassault]

Olive Oil is recklessly giving out all this love to anyone who wants to catch it.

[@yeikoblogs9962]

Este videojuego marcó un evento canónico, ya que en un principio Nintendo no tenía la licencia de Popeye y se suponía que Brutus le arrojaría barriles a Popeye mientras tenía que subir niveles para rescatar a Oliva Adivinen que videojuego termino siendo al final 😏

[@scottythegreat1]

A piece of useless trivia: Back when Shigeru Miyamoto was developing Donkey Kong, his supervisor/game producer (Gunpei Yokoi) was trying to suggest using see saws to propel the protagonist around the screen. It never worked out in Donkey Kong due to the inability to program the movement properly, but have a look, theres a see saw in the second level of this game.

[@DantesInferno96]

Simpler times, simpler people.

[@antoniomontecinos2278]

Bien jugado, popeye muy habilidoso jeje.

[@eltravo2112]

Fun fact: the only port of this besides the arcade to feature all the characters: Whimpy, sweet pea and the sea hag was the Colecovision version

[@NyuniTheMotacilla]

Sea Hag is in all version not just colecovision.

[@mathieunoel6013]

I remember getting this game for nes on my birthday...sadest birthday ever 🙂

[@TatsunoKonami]

Great and best (predictable since the coinop is by nintendo too) conversion of an amazing arcade game. The second place definitely goes to C64 version in my opinion. :)

[@joelrivera551]

this game looks seriously fun

[@Brony2002]

I remember playing this on a console that had hundreds of built-in NES games on it. It even came with 2 different controllers. I don't remember the name of the console, but it was back in 2011.

[@oligames5789]

Lo mejor de todo es cuando buscabas a Bluto para desquitarte y darle su buen golpe, pero que desesperación con la musiquita ésa cuando los corazones/notas musicales/letras caían al agua ... !!!

[@LampoElBuffyCat8120]

Esos corazones, esas notas musicales y esas letras, sí no las recogías del agua, perderías una vida

[@marooayari2963]

500 in 1 once upon a time

[@sj-up4wo]

The music on the original Nintendo games, and the games themselves were great

[@Mundane05]

It just ends and that's it? Well at least now I know.

[@OriruBastard]

+Mundane05 Actually if I do recall right, it never ends. It keeps cycling through those three stages till you get bored or die.

[@seriousspikesam7770]

This reminds me of another Popeye game I played in kindergarden. Basically, you had to "punch" Bluto off the ship (and avoid getting punched yourself) enough times and wait for Olive Oil to throw you a can of spinach. Then you would uppercut Bluto to the mast (or a crane) and win the game. It was simple, but I loved it at the time. There was also a game where you had to catch fish as a dolphin and avoid sharks and harpoons fired at you... never quite understood that one though. Too young mind, too ancient games.

[@mundolukas]

I can't believe this is the first game ever made for the NES...

[@TheKobasen]

One of my favorite game in NES...

[@CarbyGuuGuu]

Nintendo's first licensed game.

[@JaxCoolKartunes]

They did a Mickey Mouse Game & Watch game prior to this so wrong!

[@AtlasBlizzard]

AVGN is right, this game really does look like just a step above Atari.

[@orderofmagnitude-TPATP]

Where did Avgn review this? Can you send a link if possible?! But yes it shows how actually powerful nes was. 1983 it was launched in Japan and it went from games like this about as good as Coleco vision to the well known best graphics games we all know.

[@ed5142]

actually a masterpiece game

[@benzielke7149]

wow. Never knew they made this for any nes system. I had this on large floppy disc on my Atari 800.

[@Aaiaai1622]

So clasic...so nostalgik

[@NguyenPhuc-mm2td]

Game hay, nhớ lại tuổi thơ hồi xưa

[@mindcrome]

Played this allot in the Regency Arcade in Laughlin, Nv where my mom worked. We play this or Ghost n' Goblins or Pac Land after eating prime rib. (for free)

[@avideogamemaster]

Irrelevant story: I have been playing Dead by daylight a lot lately, and also have been humming the killers chase songs. So today a particular song came to my head but I just could not figure out from what game it was. I knew almost for sure it came from a game. After a while I remember, and I was surprised that I did. It was the song that plays in this Popeye game, when the symbols Olive Oyl are tossing around touch the water. A "panic" song that came to my head as I was humming killer chase songs LMFAO. Oh yeah, I had this game as a kid and played a lot.

How I miss when games were simple.

[@ClassicTVMan1981X]

Atari subsequently withdrew its bid to distribute the FamiCom in the U.S., which left Nintendo of America to take on the task itself, and the system was renamed for our market as the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES).

[@HardDiskDog]

The ship stage looks like it belongs on Atari 2600

[@fahadbeats]

😔 my childhood game classic

[@jayr1404]

One of the most exciting games back then.

[@nickperkins8477]

I love the NES rendition of Popeye, but I think the Commodore 64 variant of the game has more game functions, in an odd way. For one thing, The Sea Hag appears all over the game screen and is more of a challenge to avoid on the Commodore 64 release.

[@finisherfini5336]

Damnnnnnnnnn. Brings back the memories..

[@maverickdarkrath4780]

Wow I don't remember this game looking so bad I mean I know it's the ness but seriously the ness had a high amount of great looking games

[@thepolacek]

Roxas darkrath this was a port and a very early nes game, 1986.