Popeye (NES) Playthrough - NintendoComplete

A playthrough of Nintendo's 1986 game for the NES, Popeye.
Popeye, like most arcade games from the early 80s, doesn't have an ending. After playing through the game's three boards, you loop back to the first board, but each loop ups the difficulty level by throwing out more obstacles, speeding hazards up, and Brutus's AI gets more and more aggressive. I got to Round C (twelfth stage) before getting a Game Over in this video.
This was one of the games my sister and I would rent often as kids. We liked Donkey Kong, too, but this one was definitely the one that won out most often. It's extremely simple, but that's the best part of it. It's definitely old-school, even compared to the majority of NES games, but it's addictive. It usually feels pretty fair, and there's always a viable way to improve no matter how many times you play, whether it be finding a new placement you found where you can catch the objects without falling off of a platform, routes to take to avoid Brutus, or best times to grab the spinach. It's like any other stone age coin-op - nothing really matters except score - but the easy-to-pick-up/impossible-to-master game play and the Popeye license made it something really special for us growing up.
There was also a "variant" of sorts made - much like Donkey Kong Jr. Math was of DK Jr., a Japanese-only release named Popeye no Eigo Asobi (Popeye's English Game) that had Popeye translating words from katakana into English. It's quite bizarre. If you're interested, you can see my playthrough of that game here:
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No cheats were used during the recording of this video.
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[@ElephantMariotheRHDNhater3293]

Dammit. This game is very underrated. It's an amazing Nintendo game, and a rather impressive arcade port.

[@Dorelaxen]

Oh, man. There was a tiny little gas station in the tiny little town I grew up in, and they had a Popeye and a Joust machine in there. Every Saturday morning after cartoons, I'd walk down there and plunk in the dollar's worth of quarters my mom had given me. Still love this game (and Joust!) to this day.

[@christopherzaki8052]

I still love the music!

[@jacobreed7959]

Totally agree still a great game!

[@CryingZombie666]

One of my childhood games!

[@tonika7543]

Loved playing this game back in the day, brings back memories.

[@NintendoComplete]

Popeye is a sweet port or an arcade classic, but then, would we expect anything else from Miyamoto and Takeda? It's def a childhood favorite of mine.

[@OswaldMiyake35]

NintendoComplete It seems that your Description has Little Error, I guess? Katana? Are you taking about the Sword or the Katakana Alfabet?

[@NintendoComplete]

Oswald Epic Loquendero Ah yes, thank you. Stupid autocorrect makes more mistakes than it fixes

[@OswaldMiyake35]

NintendoComplete Yeah, dumb sh*t.

[@Malouco]

NintendoComplete where can I buy this today? Digital? WiiU?

[@ricardopurnell3923]

Popeye is a sweet port or an arcade classic, BUT

[@geremygonzalessleepwalkerr2900]

Popeye in the underground is not only his death. Well, the other ways how Popeye died was Bluto throwing a bottles of beer, the skull man with the bouncing skulls, the broken heart when it took long time in the underground, the broken musical note same reason as the broken heart, and the broken letters same reason as broken heart and broken musical note.

[@Monsterdrumma]

I loved this on my Atari 5200 until the controllers broke of course. I just realized today that NES had this so I am about to ply it now for the first time in over 30 years, yay!

[@chunky9269]

Everybody loves popeye: Zen master and protector of the weak.

[@amithathideous]

I love this game, gotta try it on my NES emulator.

[@LadyVoldo]

The first game I ever played on the NES. At least one positive thing came out of being in a day care at age 4.

[@MrSuperspeedsonic]

I remember playing this a lot on my cousin house I also have the opportunity of play it again some years later Absolutely fun Might the trivia fact is that is a licensed game by Nintendo

[@patrickw.2887]

merry xmas 1982 😌🌲

[@superjustinebros3504]

So cool I love to play Popeye and you play on GameBoy.

[@hanchiman]

I remember the only reason I loved Popeye as a kid was because I loved the cartoon :D

[@FourKaiju]

15:20 Bluto jumps to his death.

[@OswaldMiyake35]

One of the Black-Box Games you need to Have.

[@NintendoComplete]

Oswald Epic Loquendero I know I've got my like new boxed copy! :)

[@OswaldMiyake35]

NintendoComplete The Only Really bad game of that series is Donkey Kong Jr. Math. (Or what ever the Fuck is Called)

[@NintendoComplete]

Oswald Epic Loquendero Yeah and it's insanely expensive compared to most black box games if you have a complete copy

[@2PeteShakur]

"Oh, Popeye! Mario may well owe his life to our sailor friend, for had Nintendo been able to license the Popeye characters from King Features Syndicate as originally planned, the iconic Italian may never have been conceived to debut in what became the arcade classic Donkey Kong. Imagine! Nintendo was later granted the license for this three-scene arcade platform game in whicl the familiar love triangle continues. Popeye must come to Olive Oyl's rescue by collecting gracefully falling tokens of loving hearts, musical notes and cries for H-E-L-P before they sink in the water below, all the while avoiding Brutus' attacks ... save for an opportune time to consume a can of spinach and knock the bully senseless! Bernard the vulture and skull- throwing Sea Hags skulls also obstruct Popeye, while Wimpy helps to launch him skyward to rescue Swee'Pea for an added bonus. The NES version is fun and engaging, featuring two difficulty settings in both the single and alternating two-player modes, and largely plays true to the arcade game (specifically, Revision F). Its variances offer a fresh challenge, most notable being that Brutus is generally more passive and less predictable in tracking and following Popeye. His attacks are also more random, quick and aggressive, while Olive's tokens fall faster to the water and in different patterns." -- Perry Rodgers (developer)

[@denzelgeorge4339]

Oh yeah this is cool I love Popeye video games on Nintendo

[@susanfit47]

This Popeye game is from 1986 (the copyright said 1983), and the NES console is from 1985.

[@crewlolthevyonder9542]

1982.

[@AddyLovestar]

This looks like a parody of a Popeye game that might appear in sitcoms

[@FlyingV3rd]

(Laughs like Mr. Krabs)

[@amaljading04_]

This game is very funny and entertaining for me

[@Peter_1986]

wtf I didn't know about the spinach! O_O I thought that it was just a flower or something, even though I of course found it a bit suspicious.

[@homorockerbloguero5079]

Don't be suspicious don't be suspicious

[@Peter_1986]

@@homorockerbloguero5079 I thought that it was part of the decoration, hah, although I did ask myself "why is there some random greens on the stages?".

[@sebastiansrg505]

Éste juego me trajo recuerdos dé mí infancia Lo jugaba con mí hermano y mí primó en mí famili game 👍

[@GeorgeFoyet]

J'avais oublié à quel point les bruit des pas était agaçant 😆

[@vikfan3557]

I only play the bootleg version called dada

[@miguelyantaschanca1947]

8:38 Me asuste con el sonido

[@extracripsyqualitycontenta5086]

6 GRAND NICNE

[@doyouknowwhoyouredealingwith]

😐

[@gladysmoralesleon1910]

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