Popeye (NES) Playthrough - NintendoComplete

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

ElephantMariotheRHDNhater

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.

Dorelaxen

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

tonika

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.

NintendoComplete

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.

geremygonzalessleepwalkerr

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!

Monsterdrumma

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

amithathideous

2:59 Who's the most remarkable extraordinary fellow? SInbad the SAILOR!!

corjonbett

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

chunky

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

hanchiman

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.

LadyVoldo

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

superjustinebros

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

susanfit

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

MrSuperspeedsonic