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Popeye is a video arcade game that was released by Nintendo in 1982. The game is based on the Popeye cartoon characters licensed from King Features Syndicate. The Popeye video game was available in a stand-up arcade and also as a cocktail table. Popeye can be played with either two (2) players alternating turns, or one (1) player can play the game alone. The top five (5) highest scores are kept along with the player’s three (3) initials. The founder of the magazine Electronic Gaming Monthly, Steve Harris, holds the world record score of 1,232,250, earned on August 8, 1983 according to Twin Galaxies International Scoreboard. The Popeye characters were originally going to be used in the game that later became Donkey Kong.

The object of the game is for Popeye to collect a certain number of items, depending on the level—24 hearts, 16 musical notes, or the letters in the word "help"—while avoiding the Sea Hag, Brutus (originally Bluto) and other dangers. The player can make Popeye walk back and forth and up and down stairs and ladders with an 8-way joystick. There is an attack button, but unlike similar games of the period, no jump button. Conversely, Brutus can jump down a level and also jump up to hit Popeye if he is directly above.
Despite the feature of an attack button, Popeye cannot (normally) attack Brutus directly. Instead, the button is used for the following:

-The attack button destroys items that could hurt Popeye such as bottles, vultures and skulls.
-Each level has a can of spinach; attacking these cans will give Popeye invincibility and he can knock out Brutus just by running into him, although after a few seconds Brutus will swim back out and be ready for action again.
-In Round 1 (the dock scene) of each three-round cycle is a punching bag, in which Popeye can use to knock a nearby barrel loose from its position, near the top of the playing field. If the barrel falls onto Brutus' head, the player earns bonus points (based on where Brutus was attacked) and renders Brutus harmless for several seconds.

Other licensed Popeye characters in the game are Olive Oyl, Swee’Pea, and Wimpy, though they are mostly decorative and do not add heavily to the gameplay. Wimpy appears in Round 2 (the street scene) on one end of the see-saw in the lower left corner of the field, to act as a counterweight. Swee' Pea floats high above, with bonus points to be earned if Popeye can spring off the see-saw and touch him.