History VideoGame / Popeye

* [[TheComputerIsACheatingBastard Brutus is a Cheating Bastard]]: Maybe not technically ''cheating,'' but Brutus certainly isn't playing fair by the rules of most platforming video game villains (see next entry).

Assets from the UsefulNotes/NintendoEntertainmentSystem version were recycled for ''Popeye no Eigo Asobi'', an EdutainmentGame for teaching English to Japanese children.

* RubeGoldgergDevice: The first level features simple trap: A punching bag sits at the top level; when punched from the right-hand side, the bag will fly toward a bucket, which immediate drops on contact, hopefully on Brutus' head.

* Determinator: Brutus will ''always'' return from getting knocked out.

* CombatPragmatist: Brutus is a relentless foe. You aren't safe when you are on different levels: he'll do dirty little tricks like jump down levels, swat at the level below him and punch the level above him.

** The Japanese and EU arcade flyers features Popeye happily winking at the viewer while holding a can of his [[TrademarkFavoriteFood trademark]] spinach. The American flyer features an angry looking Popeye in the middle of throwing a punch.

** The Japanese and EU arcade flyers features Popeye happily winking at the viewer while holding a can of his [[TrademarkFavoriteFood trademark]] spinach. The American flyer features an angry looking Popeye in a punching motion.

* AttractMode: Leaving the arcade or NES versions alone causes them to show some sample gameplay, though their play is unskillful even for an attract mode.

* AmericanKirbyIsHardcore: Oddly inverted for the NES port: the Japanese and European box art have Popeye slugging Brutus in the face, while the US one has him reuniting with Olive.

** Note that this echoes a similar dilemma in VideoGame/PacMan: do you use your powerup time to get revenge, or do you use it to clear the stage while the enemy is off your back?

* RingOut: Touch Brutus while under the effect of spinach and you'll slam him so hard he bounces off the side of the stage and falls into the water at the buttom!

** Note that this echoes a similar dilemma in PacMan: do you use your powerup time to get revenge, or do you use it to clear the stage while the enemy is off your back?

%%* AirborneMook: The vulture.

%%* AttractMode

* BigBadDuumvirate: The Sea Hag assists Brutus from the second loop onwards. In "Level 1" and "Level 2" from that point on she stays in the upper right corner [[BallisticBone throwing bouncing skulls]] which have to be punched or avoided.
* BlessedWithSuck: The spinach ultimately just gets Brutus off of your back for a few moments. And not very long, at that. Plus, you can only use it once per level.
* ButtMonkey: Bernard, since you can punch him unlike with Brutus, and repeatedly do so for extra points.
* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Wimpy isn't on the seesaw in the NES port, so it appears that you're being launched by thin air.
%%* CollisionDamage: Brutus and the Vulture.
* {{Cutscene}}: A character introduction when the game starts, and one at the start of level 3 that shows Olive being carried in by a vulture.

%%* ExcusePlot
* FloatingPlatforms: One in level 3.
%%* {{Game Level}}s: Three.
%%* GameOver

* ImplacableMan: Brutus is a relentless foe. You aren't safe when you are on different levels: he'll do dirty little tricks like jump down levels, swat at the level below him and punch the level above him.
%%* Instant180DegreeTurn: Popeye, Brutus, and Olive Oyl.
%%* InvincibilityPowerUp: Spinach.

* OneHitPointWonder: Anything that hurts you causes you to lose a life, as do some things that don't.
* PainfullySlowProjectile: The bottles thrown by Brutus and the Sea Hag.
%%* PlatformGame Prototypical example.
* PowerUpMotif: What else would power up Popeye?
* RespawningEnemies: Brutus and the Vulture, almost immediately.
* RingOut: What you do to Brutus when you have the spinach and touch him.
* ScoringPoints: This being an older game, points do have a purpose.
%%* SideView

* TimedPowerUp: The spinach lasts for a limited time, or until you hit Brutus.
** TimeStandsStill: While it lasts, the spinach also stops everything Olive drops and doubles their point value. Level 2 with spinach active also doubles the 500-point prize for reaching Swee'Pea.

* VideoGameLives: You'll lose them if you don't collect everything Olive drops too.[[note]]After which, she's seen chewing Popeye out over missing one of the hearts / musical notes / "HELP" letters.[[/note]]

Standing in your way are Bluto/Brutus (called Brutus here), the Sea Hag, and on level 3, her vulture Bernard. Brutus chases you around, trying to kill you with CollisionDamage, and throws bottles at you. He can jump both up and down through platforms. The Sea Hag appears on the sides of the screen when you pick up something from Olive, and throws bottles at you. Once the game starts [[EndlessGame repeating]], on level 1 and level 2 she also stands at the top of the screen throwing skulls. The vulture on level 3 has carried Olive to the top of a pirate ship's mast; hence the "HELP" letters. It flies across the screen swooping up and down. You can punch the bottles and the vulture.

''Popeye'' is an UsefulNotes/ArcadeGame from 1982 by Creator/ShigeruMiyamoto and Genyo Takeda, later ported to several consoles and computers. It is one of the few {{Licensed Game}}s to have been made by Creator/{{Nintendo}}.

You play {{Popeye}}, trying to collect hearts, musical notes, or letters of the word "HELP" from Olive Oyl, who walks back and forth at the top of the screen and sends them floating down. Each of the three [[GameLevel levels]] has four [[PlatformGame platforms]], broken in places and connected by stairs or ladders. If a heart/note/letter reaches the bottom of the screen, it lands in water, and you have a limited time to get it before you lose a [[VideoGameLives life]]. Collect them all and you advance to the next level. Unusually for a platform game, Popeye cannot jump, except in one corner of level 2, where Wimpy is standing on a seesaw.

Standing in your way are Bluto/Brutus (called Brutus here), the Sea Hag, and on level 3, her vulture Bernard. Brutus chases you around, trying to kill you with CollisionDamage, and throws bottles at you. He can jump both up and down through platforms. The Sea Hag appears on the sides of the screen when you pick up something from Olive, and throws bottles at you. On level 2, and level 1 once the game starts [[EndlessGame repeating]], she also stands at the top of the screen throwing skulls. The vulture on level 3 has carried Olive to the top of a pirate ship's mast; hence the "HELP" letters. It flies across the screen swooping up and down. You can punch the bottles and the vulture.

* BigBadDuumvirate: The Sea Hag assists Brutus from the second loop onwards.

* GrievousBottleyHarm: Brutus could throw bottles at you (up to four at a time), and the Sea Hag could also throw bottles at you (she'd appear on both ends of the level you were on); you had to punch them out of the air before they hit you.

* ImplacableMan: Brutus is a relentless foe. You aren't safe when you are on different levels: he'll do dirty little tricks like jump down levels, and swat at the level above him.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: The original idea for the game was for Popeye to jump over barrels thrown by Brutus as he navigated a rickety hideout with sloped floors. That design [[VideoGame/DonkeyKong became something else instead...]]

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: The original idea for the game was for Popeye to jump over barrels thrown by Brutus as he navigated a rickety hideout with sloped floors. That design [[DonkeyKong became something else instead...]]

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