Popeye (video game)

Popeye
Popeye
	North American arcade flyer
Developers	Nintendo R&D1; Ikegami Tsushinki;
Publishers	Nintendo Arcade JP/NA: Nintendo; EU/UK: Atari, Inc.; Famicom/NES; Nintendo; Ports; Parker Brothers;
Designers	Genyo Takeda; Shigeru Miyamoto
Series	Popeye
Platform	Arcade NES, Atari 2600, ColecoVision, Intellivision, Atari 5200, Atari 8-bit, VIC-20, Odyssey², TI-99/4A, Commodore 64;
Release	November 18, 1982 Arcade NA: November 18, 1982; JP: December 1982; EU: Late 1982; NES JP: July 15, 1983; NA: June 1986; EU: 1987; 2600, ColecoVision, Intellivision August 1983; 5200, Atari 8-bit, VIC-20 November 1983; Odyssey² 1983; TI-99/4A February 1984; C64 April 1984; ;
Genre	Platform
Modes	Single-player, multiplayer

Popeye is a 1982 platform game developed and published by Nintendo for arcades. It is based on the comic strip of the same name created by E. C. Segar and licensed from King Features Syndicate. Some sources claim that Ikegami Tsushinki did programming work on the game. As Popeye, the player must collect objects thrown by Olive Oyl from the top of the screen while being chased by Brutus. Popeye can punch bottles thrown at him but can only hurt Brutus after eating the one can of spinach present in each level. Unlike Nintendo's earlier game Donkey Kong (1981), there is no jump button.

The game was licensed by Atari, Inc. for exclusive release in the United Kingdom and Ireland in an Atari-designed cabinet. Nintendo ported the game to the Famicom, and Parker Brothers published versions for other home systems.