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Popeye is a Panorama and Tabletop Game & Watch game released in August of 1983. The games' model number are PG-74 for the Tabletop game and PG-92 for the Panorama game. PG in the model number stands for Popeye…

5 August 1981

Popeye is an arcade developed by Nintendo, released 5 August 1981 on Game & Watch.

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What Popeye is

Popeye is an arcade game developed by Nintendo and released in 1981. It is available on Game & Watch only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Popeye is a Panorama and Tabletop Game & Watch game released in August of 1983. The games' model number are PG-74 for the Tabletop game and PG-92 for the Panorama game. PG in the model number stands for Popeye Game. The Panorama game took and came with two LR44 batteries, while the Tabletop version came with two C batteries. Nintendo manufactured 250,000 versions of both games in America and Europe. It's unknown how many were manufactured in Japan. The game is based on the lucrative Popeye franchise, and in it you control Popeye. Nintendo was known during that era to create games based off on the Popeye franchise. Brutus has kidnapped Olive, and as Popeye you have to knock him out and punch…
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How it plays

It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the Popeye series

Popeye is the first of 22 entries we hold in the Popeye series. The next entry was Popeye in 1982.

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When did Popeye come out?
Popeye was released on 5 August 1981 for Game & Watch.

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