POPEYE 2: the best Game Boy game you've never played [Review]

Review of the game POPEYE 2 for the original Nintendo Game Boy.

[@ninjapants7688]

The strange names at the end of the game credits like "Pretty Yamada" was widely used to avoid programmer/game design/artist poaching from other companies. Many Japanese developers went by nicknames, pseudonyms and personas during that time.

[@snowflakepillow8697]

NES games had this too... and well it's complicated...

[@ninjapants7688]

@@snowflakepillow8697 NES games, Master System, Mega Drive. It was pretty big in the 8-16 bit days. The 32 Bit days most devs just put their name in the credits.

[@UnevenPavement0]

Both arms are big! You just only ever get to see one at a time. Right arm when facing right and left arm when facing left.

[@Sly88Frye]

This does look like a fun game. Flawed but fun. And the villain's name is actually Bluto. I'm pretty sure

[@RetrosGameReviews]

It's both Bluto and Brutus depending on which Popeye cartoon you're watching. He's called Brutus in this game. Bluto is the OG name tho.

[@dustincutri6514]

I think that first boss is a penguin instead of a snowman which makes just as little sense haha

[@charleswist2104]

Has anyone noticed that this game is very similar to Asterix on Game Boy? (no, not the asterix and obelix one, i meant the solo asterix game)

[@snowflakepillow8697]

I haven't played this and had Donkey Kong 94 as a kid... would like to chat about this sort of thing

[@justinw7323]

Popeye had a game for the nes.

[@PaulVanced-jl5gk]

It's fine but not great