Popeye
Popeye is a Japan-exclusive Game Boy video game based on the comic strip of the same name licensed from King Features Syndicate. A cancelled US version was found in the 2020 Nintendo data leak, intended to be…
Popeye is a puzzle developed by Sigma Ent. Inc., released 20 April 1990 on Game Boy.
What Popeye is
Popeye is a puzzle game developed by Sigma Ent. Inc. and released in 1990. It was published by INTV Corporation. It is available on Game Boy only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Popeye is a Japan-exclusive Game Boy video game based on the comic strip of the same name licensed from King Features Syndicate. A cancelled US version was found in the 2020 Nintendo data leak, intended to be published by INTV Corporation. The scenario is a maze and the player controls Popeye who has a time limit to collect some hearts, find Olive Oyl and save Swee'Pea which only appears somewhere to be saved after the hearts were collected and Olive found.
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.
Where it sits in the Popeye series
Popeye is the 14th of 22 entries we hold in the Popeye series. It arrived 5 years after Popeye. The next entry was Popeye 2 in 1991.
What it launched against
Popeye launched on 20 April 1990, within three weeks of Smash T.V., Gargoyle's Quest and Fire Emblem: Ankoku Ryuu to Hikari no Tsurugi.
Released around the same time: Smash T.V., Gargoyle's Quest, Fire Emblem: Ankoku Ryuu to Hikari no Tsurugi.
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