Popeye [5 Screw]
Popeye [5 Screw]
Popeye [5 Screw]
Popeye [5 Screw]
Popeye [5 Screw]
Popeye [5 Screw]

Popeye [5 Screw]

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Game only: the cartridge in a protective holder, no box or manual. This is the 5-screw cartridge variant, an early-production version of the NES cartridge. The photos are of this exact copy — look them over closely for its condition, packaging and details. Every cartridge's shell, label and board are checked for authenticity when it comes into the store, and it's tested before it's listed. It ships in a collector's bag or a hard plastic case.

Item Description

Hearts, musical notes and a desperate H-E-L-P: Olive Oyl spends three stages raining them down from the top of the screen, and it is Popeye's job to catch every one before it sinks into the water below. That simple goal sits at the center of Nintendo's 1982 Popeye arcade game, a cartoon license with an unusually close tie to Nintendo history. The company first hoped to use Popeye for the project that became Donkey Kong, and once it finally secured the sailor, the Famicom version launched the system in Japan alongside Donkey Kong and Donkey Kong Jr. The NES release followed in North America in 1986.

The trouble is Brutus, the bearded bruiser cartoon fans also know as Bluto. He chases Popeye across every level, leaps up to punch from the floor below, reaches down to grab from above and pauses to hurl bottles, and he grows more aggressive as the rounds repeat. The Sea Hag adds bouncing skulls from the corner of the screen, and in the third stage Bernard the vulture swoops low across the platforms.

Popeye's fists can knock projectiles out of the air but cannot touch Brutus, until the spinach appears. Punch the can, hear the famous theme kick in, and the tables turn for a few seconds as Brutus flees and Popeye sends him flying off the screen for bonus points. Deciding when to spend that spinach, while still catching every heart, note and letter, gives this compact arcade game a surprising amount of strategy.

The five-screw cartridge variant dates from Nintendo's earliest NES production, before the switch to three-screw shells, which makes it a nice piece for collectors who track hardware revisions. The game inside is a direct link between Nintendo's arcade roots and the console era, and a fun, quick-hit challenge on original hardware.

Fast factsgame data via IGDB
Released
1983
Publisher
Nintendo
Developer
Nintendo R&D1
Players
Single player, Multiplayer
About the game

Popeye is a 1982 arcade game developed and released by Nintendo based on the Popeye cartoon characters licensed from King Features Syndicate. As Popeye, players must collect hearts thrown by Olive Oyl from the top of the screen while being chased by Bluto. Nintendo ported the game to the Famicom as one of its three launch games.

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