Does wimpy, sweet pea, or the pelican(i only remember the pelican from the live action movie but always wondered if it was rooted in the cartoon) ever make an appearance in the game?
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Nintendo's arcade cabinets were so well done. The artwork, the marquees, the solid joystick and buttons, the colorful design... they really made their machines stand out in the arcade.
Too bad they only made five arcade games from the 80s and they focused more on releasing their games through home consoles like the NES and they never make anymore arcade games until the 90s and 2000s but they're mostly racing games like Mario Kart and Cruisin' (co-produced with Midway Games)
This was one of my favourite games when I was a kid in the 1980s. We had the Atari 2600 version (we still have it but it is in storage now). I bought an arcade cocktail table that has this game included, so I play it on that now. To this day, if someone mentions Popeye, I have to tell them about this game!
Man, isn't that game addictive as hell? I remember I just couldn't stop playing it at a camp I went to when I was a kid. The counselors would be like,"You're playing Popeye again?"
Actually, the movie came out in 1980, so it predated the game. Nintendo wanted to make a Popeye game to coincide with the movie, but their games up to that point weren’t too popular, so King Features were skeptical to sell them the game rights, so Nintendo made Donkey Kong instead, which is when the story you told played out, and eventually, Nintendo got to make the game they wanted to make all along. Incidentally, the baby’s name is Swee’Pea, which I knew all along, but I had to look up whose child Swee’Pea actually is. According to the comic, Swee’Pea was abandoned on Popeye’s doorstep, but in most appearances, Olive Oyl is the one taking care of Swee’Pea, with him sometimes being her cousin or nephew, or even her adopted son. But they have never said just whose child Swee’pea is. What they do make clear, at least in the home manuals, is that Popeye’s rival in this game is Brutus rather than Bluto, and King Features has since established that Bluto and Brutus are two different characters. They made Brutus in the 60s under the assumption that Paramount, who was doing the shorts in the 50s and prior, owned the Bluto character, only to find out later that King Features themselves owned Bluto to begin with. Eventually, King Features released a comic in which Bluto and Brutus both appeared, and established that they are twin brother, with the biggest difference being that Bluto is a sailor and Brutus is just a big brawny guy, which to me makes Bluto the better rival for Popeye. Incidentally, Brutus is scared of Bluto, so Bluto is definitely not a guy you mess with.
Love, love these older cabinets! So nostalgic & beautiful! Nintendo should remake these or slightly smaller versions, sort of like 1up arcades but not as cheap...
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I remember one of my cousins from Missouri had a Popeye Arcade machine in his room when I first went to my aunt Nana's old house with my mom and older brother as a kid.
Joe's Classic Video Games Yes remember the time when games were just fun and not political or overcomplicated! You could just play a game and the move on! The good old days! Man I am not getting any younger!!!
Very nice collection. Man, y'all should make a museum of the 80s . I loved this game . Was one of my favorites among kung fu master, donkey kong, the fast Mrs pacman, gorf, and etc,, now that I think about it. Definately, my childhood growing up in the 80s revolved heavily around the Gold Mine in Oglethorpe Mall, in Savannah, listening to Steve Perry belting out " don't stop" in the arcades background music. Good times, good times.. I'll have to hit y'all up, sometimes definitely, after I finish up my child support obligations 😂. I might have to treat myself to one of them, definitely...
The girder theme also comes from Popeye. Not sure if it is exactly true or not but I did read that Miyamoto's favourite Popeye cartoon was the one where Popeye is trying to rescue a sleeping-walking Olive Oyl who manages to scale a building site and has many sequences involving girders.
Wow I had completely forgotten about that but I remember it now that you mention it. I must have been a kid the last time I saw it, she's walking around and the girders keep swinging around on ropes and things and catching her before she walks off one. Thank you for bringing that up!
@@LyonsArcade Yeah it's a real classic. Had it on a VHS back in the day, watched it so many times. Love the look of the Popeye arcade machine, hope to own it one day.
Several years ago, we had several restored Nintendo games of this vintage (Popeye, Donkey Kong, etc) at Southern Fried. Immaculate games. Won best in show hands down.
I remember pumping many, many quarters into this as a kid. There was also a Popeye arm wrestling game, at least I think, no one else seems to remember it, lol.
This is a game even SMB NES Fanboys are unaware of let alone most retro-gamers who don't look for Nintendo stuff. A revolutionary machine with hi resolution interlaced graphics and supremely playable. Sadly not enough screens for home gaming but a great option when stuck in the arrivals lounge waiting for relatives at the airport or whilst the cook was frying your fishcake and chips in the local fish and chips shop.
Well, i am 14 and I can say the baby is Sweet'pea, and the way bluto is drawn on the cabinet, I think he is the newer one from the 60's. I think at that time he was called Brutus.
Beautiful cabinet , i only played it in standard version but boy i played it well , i remember Nintendo firebird and donkey Kong had a similar to this one
I always found it slightly amusing where the muscle formed for Pop-Eye. To get the thrust strength usually would involve upper arm muscles like the biceps. A cool game though and ideas to kind of duplicate DK for this. An interesting story about how companies will suddenly see dollars and then try to jump onboard. I know this was 6 years ago, but I just kind of found it now :)
We've been getting a lot of comments on this one lately, RUclips must be 'sharin' it round' LOL Thanks for watching Brendan, what's up with Popeye's weird arms? Don't even start thinking about Olive Oyl's anatomy, lol
This arcade game is based on the comic strips and animated cartoons of the same name. This game was coincide with the 1980 movie Popeye starring Robin Williams.
People tend to be confused about Popeye’s rival. According to the NES manual, it’s Brutus that Popeye is facing in this game rather than Bluto, and King Features has determined that they are different characters.
This one my favorite video games.I remember playing this game at a Taco Restaurant,a I vaguely remember playing the cocktail Popeye at a Seafood Restaurant with my Dad. The Nintendo NES Version is alright,there is nothing like the Arcade Version. Thanks 🙏 for the video 😊
The arcade version so much harder than the NES one. The NES one I can beat all the levels and restart the loop. I can't even beat the first level in the arcade version, lol.
Little known fact! Instead of bluto in the popeye game its brutus! Brutus is a little known villain from the popeye universe who is just like bluto but nintendo still couldn't get the rights to bluto so they used brutus instead.
I never knew that, I looked it up and you're right. The crazy thing is, the cartoon they said it was always Brutus, and Bluto was just from the 50's. I was born in the late 70's, and always knew about "Bluto".... so maybe I heard him called that from my parents? Pretty wild.
@@LyonsArcade You probably saw Bluto in the old Fleischer Studios movie cartoons, which still played a lot on Saturday morning TV in those days. He was "Brutus" in the cartoons made for TV in the 60s, because King Features thought (incorrectly, as it turned out) that they didn't own the character rights to Bluto, who had mostly been a movie character up to that point. Eventually, the comics established that Bluto and Brutus were nearly identical brothers.
I loved this game but I hated how hard it was. This was one of the most frustrating arcade games, up there with Zaxxon and Congo Bongo. If I ever win the lottery I want to buy 1 of each of those and blow them up. Ohhhh and that DAMN Renegade. "good luck kid!" will forever be in my nightmares. This game caused me a ton of stress when I was 7 lol. Beating just the 1st level was harder than some entire games.
yeah, i had one when i was a kid, green, single screen, you was in a boat blocking coconuts that bluto was throwing at olive oyl... i had that and a DK2, the orange two screen B)
Got a chance to play an original cabinet recently, though sadly the monitor was so unstable it was difficult to play without getting a headache. Shame this game is trapped in licensing purgatory so we'll probably never see a official rerelease of the arcade original or its ports.
Yeah I think the licensing has been screwed up forever on Popeye, they've basically abandoned the property and don't do anything with it, the only thing I know the name is even on anymore is actual cans of spinach at the grocery store which is pretty awesome. Thanks for watching Mr Esturk!
I originally played this game at Food City in 1983. I liked it so much that my late mother bought the Atari 2600 version for me for Christmas. But when I played the Atari 2600 Popeye, I wasn't happy. Unlike the arcade version, Bluto/Brutus doesn't run on the Atari 2600 Popeye when you grab the spinach. That sucks because half of the fun is having to chase Bluto down and knock the crap out of him. But on the 2600 Popeye, Bluto walks towards you when you grab the spinach. There's no challenge in that and that sucks.
Was there a combination cabinet with this game and donkey kong which had the early mario? If so I played it regularly at my dentist office as a kid! Definitely played both games regardless.
Weird! I saw on the games where they said Brutus. I always heard it as Bluto. So I googled it and it was Bluto. Wonder why they put Brutus on the game?
It was some kind of lawsuit from way back, a copyright thing believe it or not. His name changed at some point (not just for Nintendo, for everything Popeye).
I remember reading about this game when I learned about how Nintendo came up with the concept of Donkey Kong...in fact, I actually saw the Popeye cartoon that inspired the game that became Donkey Kong. At first I didn't think this game would see the light of day because of copyright stuff from King Features Syndicate, but boy, was I wrong. I used to see this at the Strong Museum of Play in eGameRevolution. I've actually bought canned spinach...yuck...I'm just gonna eat the fresh spinach in salads. I have a friend IRL who bears a resemblance to Olive Oyl (she's my sister's age). The baby's name is Swee'pea, by the way...I know since I've been watching the old Popeye cartoons. And I love those old Nintendo arcade cabinets, it brings back more simpler times...
One time I was in a Cracker Barrel and there was a waitress that looked like Olive Oyl. She had to be 6'6" and she had the black hair pulled back and thin as a toothpick.
If we lived in an alternate universe were nintendo got the license for popeye and didn't make donkey kong what would popeye jr be like? Would Brutus be in a cage like donkey kong? Would popeye be a villain? Would have the popeye arcade game been successful in the first place? Who knows? Its a mystery.
Is that Bluto or Brutus? I seem to think the later Popeye cartoons call him Brutus (or maybe it was a separate but similar character?) The baby is named Sweet Pea and I believe he is a orphan.
I always thought it was Bluto but apparently they changed him to Brutus before I was even born. I don't know why I knew his name was "bluto".... when it was only Bluto in the comic strips way back before the cartoon.
@@LyonsArcade Some how i don't think he/she is still with us. It was such a long time ago. I was a stupid kid doing stupid things. Great videos by the way. Best out there on arcade machine repairs.
Loved this game! Miss those days!
I never played it back in the day but when you stand in front of one of these... you can FEEL IT!
Does wimpy, sweet pea, or the pelican(i only remember the pelican from the live action movie but always wondered if it was rooted in the cartoon) ever make an appearance in the game?
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I agree a very underrated game. Was one of my favorites when I was a kid. Never realized how beautiful the cabinet was.
All the Nintendo stuff really had a cool look to it, it has that cutesy Japanese thing going on.
@@LyonsArcade I spent many hours playing Popeye and Tapper at Chuck E. Cheese as a kid.
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I love the commentary and Joe talking about the characters and how the cabinet looks like an ornament. This is wholesome, heartwarming content.
Awwww, thanks Laura
Hallmark has a donkey kong machine keepsake ornament
Nintendo's arcade cabinets were so well done. The artwork, the marquees, the solid joystick and buttons, the colorful design... they really made their machines stand out in the arcade.
Too bad they only made five arcade games from the 80s and they focused more on releasing their games through home consoles like the NES and they never make anymore arcade games until the 90s and 2000s but they're mostly racing games like Mario Kart and Cruisin' (co-produced with Midway Games)
This was one of my favourite games when I was a kid in the 1980s. We had the Atari 2600 version (we still have it but it is in storage now). I bought an arcade cocktail table that has this game included, so I play it on that now. To this day, if someone mentions Popeye, I have to tell them about this game!
Man, isn't that game addictive as hell? I remember I just couldn't stop playing it at a camp I went to when I was a kid. The counselors would be like,"You're playing Popeye again?"
Just a beautiful cabinet. I loved this game as a kid.
Yeah, the artwork and cabinet design was awesome!
I never played this game, but if I did, I would’ve remembered it, I need to catch up on Popeye because I hadn’t watched it in years. I was so young.
I love Popeye. The cab is one of the best looking Nintendo cabs out there.
Yeah, they did a great job with it.
lol love the sounds it makes when he climbs downstairs.
These early games the sounds were so perfect!
I bet this game's popularity rose even higher when the live action movie came out
I'd imagine... I think that was a little while later though so they might have mostly been 'retired' by then...
Actually, the movie came out in 1980, so it predated the game. Nintendo wanted to make a Popeye game to coincide with the movie, but their games up to that point weren’t too popular, so King Features were skeptical to sell them the game rights, so Nintendo made Donkey Kong instead, which is when the story you told played out, and eventually, Nintendo got to make the game they wanted to make all along. Incidentally, the baby’s name is Swee’Pea, which I knew all along, but I had to look up whose child Swee’Pea actually is. According to the comic, Swee’Pea was abandoned on Popeye’s doorstep, but in most appearances, Olive Oyl is the one taking care of Swee’Pea, with him sometimes being her cousin or nephew, or even her adopted son. But they have never said just whose child Swee’pea is. What they do make clear, at least in the home manuals, is that Popeye’s rival in this game is Brutus rather than Bluto, and King Features has since established that Bluto and Brutus are two different characters. They made Brutus in the 60s under the assumption that Paramount, who was doing the shorts in the 50s and prior, owned the Bluto character, only to find out later that King Features themselves owned Bluto to begin with. Eventually, King Features released a comic in which Bluto and Brutus both appeared, and established that they are twin brother, with the biggest difference being that Bluto is a sailor and Brutus is just a big brawny guy, which to me makes Bluto the better rival for Popeye. Incidentally, Brutus is scared of Bluto, so Bluto is definitely not a guy you mess with.
i love all the nintendo cabinets and artwork
Yeah even the later stuff was really nice....
SweetPea was found on Popeye's doorstep! Thanks for the memories of 1000 lost quarters...will stop in your shop next time I'm up from Columbia!
That's right, I had forgot about that one! Come on by, we're here everyday but Sunday...
Love, love these older cabinets! So nostalgic & beautiful! Nintendo should remake these or slightly smaller versions, sort of like 1up arcades but not as cheap...
They may do just that, we'll have to see what happens....
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I would get this, Donkey Kong and DK Jr. in a nanosecond!
Would be cool, but even if Nintendo could, they don't have the rights to Popeye anymore.
I remember Popeye back in the day. I use love the cartoon and arcade game.
It was something there for awhile. I can't believe they've basically abandoned the character though, you never hear about Popeye anymore!
Oh man, I loved this game. One of my all time faves. I had the high score on it for what seemed like a couple of years.
Very cool, it is certainly a great game!
One of the best cabinets and games in my opinion.
Beautiful machine... One of my favourite looking cabs
Yes the Nintendo stuff was super nice!
Thank you for the memory flashback. I played this as a kid back in the early 80's.
Never played this but that cabinet is art. Great video too. Thanks.
Yeah it's a really fun game. I think they released it on the NES too back in the day....
I remember one of my cousins from Missouri had a Popeye Arcade machine in his room when I first went to my aunt Nana's old house with my mom and older brother as a kid.
I played that game on the colecovision when I was young just a fun game to play!
It sure is, very well designed!
Joe's Classic Video Games Yes remember the time when games were just fun and not political or overcomplicated! You could just play a game and the move on! The good old days! Man I am not getting any younger!!!
Very nice collection. Man, y'all should make a museum of the 80s . I loved this game . Was one of my favorites among kung fu master, donkey kong, the fast Mrs pacman, gorf, and etc,, now that I think about it. Definately, my childhood growing up in the 80s revolved heavily around the Gold Mine in Oglethorpe Mall, in Savannah, listening to Steve Perry belting out " don't stop" in the arcades background music. Good times, good times.. I'll have to hit y'all up, sometimes definitely, after I finish up my child support obligations 😂. I might have to treat myself to one of them, definitely...
Thanks A we appreciate you watching :) Yes they all bring back the memories, don't they?
@@LyonsArcade sure do
Omg this is the first game I remember playing!
It's definitely one of a kind, nothing quite like this one... .
Awesome cabinet
It's pretty cool, all the Nintendo stuff looks great :)
I remember playing this a long long time ago!
It’s a classic!
Such a fun filled game! The colors are so bright! Thanks for the great video! 👍
Awesome machine. Can't wait to get my hands on one. Looking for any Nintendo dedicated cabinet, plan on owning them all.
I have a Popeye in my house. It’s awesome
The girder theme also comes from Popeye. Not sure if it is exactly true or not but I did read that Miyamoto's favourite Popeye cartoon was the one where Popeye is trying to rescue a sleeping-walking Olive Oyl who manages to scale a building site and has many sequences involving girders.
Wow I had completely forgotten about that but I remember it now that you mention it. I must have been a kid the last time I saw it, she's walking around and the girders keep swinging around on ropes and things and catching her before she walks off one. Thank you for bringing that up!
@@LyonsArcade Yeah it's a real classic. Had it on a VHS back in the day, watched it so many times. Love the look of the Popeye arcade machine, hope to own it one day.
Several years ago, we had several restored Nintendo games of this vintage (Popeye, Donkey Kong, etc) at Southern Fried.
Immaculate games. Won best in show hands down.
Now I did not know that piece of history. I learned something. 🤓
Thanks for watching!
Loved this game!
Yeah, it was really something special....
I used to play this game a lot on those Famiclones whenever I vacationed in India.
I love the 80s
Me too :)
I miss the 80’s! Life was simpler like the game Popeye
perfect !
Thank you, Friend!
I remember pumping many, many quarters into this as a kid. There was also a Popeye arm wrestling game, at least I think, no one else seems to remember it, lol.
The "baby" is named "Sweet Pea". Always loved this game
This is a game even SMB NES Fanboys are unaware of let alone most retro-gamers who don't look for Nintendo stuff. A revolutionary machine with hi resolution interlaced graphics and supremely playable. Sadly not enough screens for home gaming but a great option when stuck in the arrivals lounge waiting for relatives at the airport or whilst the cook was frying your fishcake and chips in the local fish and chips shop.
Well, i am 14 and I can say the baby is Sweet'pea, and the way bluto is drawn on the cabinet, I think he is the newer one from the 60's. I think at that time he was called Brutus.
Super clean im jelly
They had this one at the bar i used to frequent on Saturday nights, back in 1982 / 1983.... but my favorite game at that place was Q*Bert.
Beautiful cabinet , i only played it in standard version but boy i played it well , i remember Nintendo firebird and donkey Kong had a similar to this one
ilove this game its so fun
It's very original! Nothing is quite like it....
I love Popeye cabinet ❤️
This and DK are the best 80s classics
Mario owes his existence to Popeye... well blow me down :D
Ahhk ahhhk ahhhk yuukkk hukkk hukkk yukkk!
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Pedro, I LOVE STIMPY !!! He is my hero.
I love Ren & STIMPY
How did you get that icon for your name ?
@@talismanskulls1727 Donkey Kong was originally supposed to be Popeye. They couldn't secure the rights so Popeye became Mario.
It's hard to imagine that if they were granted the licence initially, Mario may have never existed!
I always found it slightly amusing where the muscle formed for Pop-Eye. To get the thrust strength usually would involve upper arm muscles like the biceps.
A cool game though and ideas to kind of duplicate DK for this. An interesting story about how companies will suddenly see dollars and then try to jump onboard.
I know this was 6 years ago, but I just kind of found it now :)
We've been getting a lot of comments on this one lately, RUclips must be 'sharin' it round' LOL Thanks for watching Brendan, what's up with Popeye's weird arms? Don't even start thinking about Olive Oyl's anatomy, lol
Love the popeye game Ron 👍 very nostalgic
great game I also agree its under rated
I need to practice more!
yeah you should have made it at lest to the ship wtf heh
This arcade game is based on the comic strips and animated cartoons of the same name.
This game was coincide with the 1980 movie Popeye starring Robin Williams.
yes it is!
susanfit47 That movie gave me nightmares as kid... Not sure exactly why but it did lol
Big Popeye fan
People tend to be confused about Popeye’s rival. According to the NES manual, it’s Brutus that Popeye is facing in this game rather than Bluto, and King Features has determined that they are different characters.
This one my favorite video games.I remember playing this game at a Taco Restaurant,a I vaguely remember playing the cocktail Popeye at a Seafood Restaurant with my Dad.
The Nintendo NES Version is alright,there is nothing like the Arcade Version.
Thanks 🙏 for the video 😊
The arcade version so much harder than the NES one. The NES one I can beat all the levels and restart the loop. I can't even beat the first level in the arcade version, lol.
Most played machine in my little collection.
Little known fact! Instead of bluto in the popeye game its brutus! Brutus is a little known villain from the popeye universe who is just like bluto but nintendo still couldn't get the rights to bluto so they used brutus instead.
I never knew that, I looked it up and you're right. The crazy thing is, the cartoon they said it was always Brutus, and Bluto was just from the 50's. I was born in the late 70's, and always knew about "Bluto".... so maybe I heard him called that from my parents? Pretty wild.
@@LyonsArcade You probably saw Bluto in the old Fleischer Studios movie cartoons, which still played a lot on Saturday morning TV in those days. He was "Brutus" in the cartoons made for TV in the 60s, because King Features thought (incorrectly, as it turned out) that they didn't own the character rights to Bluto, who had mostly been a movie character up to that point. Eventually, the comics established that Bluto and Brutus were nearly identical brothers.
I think I just bought the same Popeye arcade. It also has cigarette burns on the overlay.
It may have found it's way to you, take good care of it :)
this is my opinion Popeye and Qbert are my favorite arcade games
I loved this game but I hated how hard it was. This was one of the most frustrating arcade games, up there with Zaxxon and Congo Bongo. If I ever win the lottery I want to buy 1 of each of those and blow them up. Ohhhh and that DAMN Renegade. "good luck kid!" will forever be in my nightmares.
This game caused me a ton of stress when I was 7 lol. Beating just the 1st level was harder than some entire games.
Great game, good playing!! 😊👍
Was there ever a Game & Watch version? I can remember Snoopy Tennis :)
There was! Those Game & Watches were really cool.
yeah, i had one when i was a kid, green, single screen, you was in a boat blocking coconuts that bluto was throwing at olive oyl... i had that and a DK2, the orange two screen B)
Right on! I had Pinball and DK Jr :)
This game was one of the best ports on the Atari 5200.
Great Game , I think I have it on my Real NES.
Joe did you buy your self some popeye spinish at your local supermarket how is it
I was Strong to the Finnich after I ate it!
Good times.
How much is this valued at? I have one of these, fully functional. 1982
If we had one right now, after we fixed it up and made it nice we'd probably advertise it for $1299 in our store.
Yeah...Bluto is pretty slow until you get your can of spinach. He's not hard to avoid but ridiculously hard to CATCH
Got a chance to play an original cabinet recently, though sadly the monitor was so unstable it was difficult to play without getting a headache.
Shame this game is trapped in licensing purgatory so we'll probably never see a official rerelease of the arcade original or its ports.
Yeah I think the licensing has been screwed up forever on Popeye, they've basically abandoned the property and don't do anything with it, the only thing I know the name is even on anymore is actual cans of spinach at the grocery store which is pretty awesome. Thanks for watching Mr Esturk!
Theres also an orange cabinet version but that one is the rarest and you hardly ever see them
I want a Nintendo row also!
I originally played this game at Food City in 1983. I liked it so much that my late mother bought the Atari 2600 version for me for Christmas. But when I played the Atari 2600 Popeye, I wasn't happy. Unlike the arcade version, Bluto/Brutus doesn't run on the Atari 2600 Popeye when you grab the spinach. That sucks because half of the fun is having to chase Bluto down and knock the crap out of him. But on the 2600 Popeye, Bluto walks towards you when you grab the spinach. There's no challenge in that and that sucks.
Was there a combination cabinet with this game and donkey kong which had the early mario? If so I played it regularly at my dentist office as a kid! Definitely played both games regardless.
It's a carbon copy essentially to Donkey Kong / Jr or based off of Donkey. I know it's different somewhat but I remember this game now.
is this a widebody cabinet? or it is the same size as a donkey kong cabinet?
It's the exact same cabinet as a Donkey Kong.
@@LyonsArcade BUT THE MONITOR IS DIFFERENT
I used to think if I swallowed spinach on the right side of my mouth, my right arm would be stronger.
You may have been correct!
Weird! I saw on the games where they said Brutus. I always heard it as Bluto. So I googled it and it was Bluto. Wonder why they put Brutus on the game?
It was some kind of lawsuit from way back, a copyright thing believe it or not. His name changed at some point (not just for Nintendo, for everything Popeye).
It's cool that it donkey Kong arcade was based on popeye
This game is hard!
do you ship to the UK?
We don't unfortunately, but you can have a freight company pick up a machine at our shop, very expensive though
The resolution is high on this one for the time back then.
Shame that Nintendo never make arcade cabinets like these and they only made 5 games
Radar scope too….
interesting that the cabinet calls him Brutus instead of Bluto!
I remember reading about this game when I learned about how Nintendo came up with the concept of Donkey Kong...in fact, I actually saw the Popeye cartoon that inspired the game that became Donkey Kong. At first I didn't think this game would see the light of day because of copyright stuff from King Features Syndicate, but boy, was I wrong. I used to see this at the Strong Museum of Play in eGameRevolution. I've actually bought canned spinach...yuck...I'm just gonna eat the fresh spinach in salads. I have a friend IRL who bears a resemblance to Olive Oyl (she's my sister's age). The baby's name is Swee'pea, by the way...I know since I've been watching the old Popeye cartoons. And I love those old Nintendo arcade cabinets, it brings back more simpler times...
One time I was in a Cracker Barrel and there was a waitress that looked like Olive Oyl. She had to be 6'6" and she had the black hair pulled back and thin as a toothpick.
If we lived in an alternate universe were nintendo got the license for popeye and didn't make donkey kong what would popeye jr be like? Would Brutus be in a cage like donkey kong? Would popeye be a villain? Would have the popeye arcade game been successful in the first place? Who knows? Its a mystery.
Is that Bluto or Brutus? I seem to think the later Popeye cartoons call him Brutus (or maybe it was a separate but similar character?) The baby is named Sweet Pea and I believe he is a orphan.
I’m looking for a popeye to purchase 👌
Is it Bluto or Brutus?
I always thought it was Bluto but apparently they changed him to Brutus before I was even born. I don't know why I knew his name was "bluto".... when it was only Bluto in the comic strips way back before the cartoon.
How much does a machine like this cost
I think we sold this one for $1100 or so it would likely be more if we got it back in, the prices are going up.
As a kid, me and my friend used to get hundreds of free credits on this machine with the help of a certain device.
You oughta go find that guy and pay him back LOL Thanks for watching Jayy Tee
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Some how i don't think he/she is still with us. It was such a long time ago.
I was a stupid kid doing stupid things.
Great videos by the way. Best out there on arcade machine repairs.
I played the NES one
Very cool, we get it in from time to time in our gamestore.
Still have the Popeye Nintendo Cartridge
I guess Shweepy was a wedlock child or an adopted one? Bluto almost looks like Donkey Kong, lol.
I just looked it up, apparently Sweepea was a baby Popeye found IN A BOX on his door step in 1933! So he's Popeye's son.
Hey that's right, Joe. That does jot some faint memories of the characters in this cartoon.
Yeah I haven't seen the cartoon in FOREVER but after I looked that up it sounded vaguely familiar
SPAMWARS1 oh oh yes!
I wonder what the story was with the hardware? It's completely different from anything else Nintendo made.
seems like the arcade version is way harder cause in the home its pretty easy and bluto is even slower
This is a game that I need to play it looks super cool and this is better than donkey Kong
Is the monitor horizontal or vertiical?
Horizontal
Can I purchase this? How many pounds does this weigh?
Lance unfortunately we already sold it, it weighed about 250 pounds.
his name is brutus btw
Thank you
Do u have ki2
Never underestimate Bluto
Too bad Popeye can't jump in this game despite Nintendo gave the jumping ability in Donkey Kong at first
Where is fix it Felix jr
I've never even played it :)