If only I felt like Popeye after eating Popeye's chicken ...
The Low-Effort Gamer Show: Popeye
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 On 01/10/2023 at 08:31 AM by SanAndreas See More From This User » |
In the 80s, Popeye, who had originally appeared in Elzie Segar's Thimble Theatre comics as a supporting character in 1929, was at the peak of his popularity, with a new wave of cartoons, a movie starring Robin Williams and Shelley Duvall, his own line of canned and bagged spinach, and even a licensing deal with the otherwise unrelated Popeyes fried chicken chain. An awful lot of American, and Japanese, children had grown up with Popeye over the preceding few decades. With that in mind, Nintendo wanted to use the Popeye license to create a video game. At first, however, King Features Syndicate refused to license Popeye to a then-unknown Japanese toy and game company, and instead, Nintendo would be forced to develop its own characters, which would lead to the creation of Donkey Kong, and Mario. As Garth Brooks once said, some of God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers.
Still, once Donkey Kong became a mega-hit, King Features finally granted the Popeye license to Nintendo, and the Popeye arcade game was born. This game will likely never be seen again in an official form due to the messy licensing behind the Popeye IP, which will be 100 years old in six years, but it's an interesting game.
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