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DjMD1017 t1_ja2wrh4 wrote

Chris platt would still voice him as Popeye especially since Robin passed

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rtza t1_ja2xmtu wrote

There was an awesome Popeye game on NES though?

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xopranaut t1_ja2xvga wrote

And Bluto was originally going to be the boss, rather than Donkey Kong!

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LynxJesus t1_ja3ils5 wrote

Because people have low standards, this sub always has terrible post titles.

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I_might_be_weasel t1_ja3mm5b wrote

Fun fact: The same studio that denied them the rights to use Popeye also denied George Lucas the rights to mak a Flash Gordon movie. So he made his own version and called it Star Wars. He still got sued for copyright infringement though by the guy who wrote Dune.

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drmonkeysee t1_ja4a0ww wrote

Technically they came up with Jumpman. He wasn’t Mario until Mario Bros.

[edit] maybe. Seems like he was informally named Mario before Mario Bros.

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blahblahrasputan t1_ja4kk6v wrote

This reminds me I had a great Popeye game on Commodore 64 when I was a kid and it was pretty similar to classic Donkey Kong where you played as "Mario" (which I also had on C64). It was hard, a bit weird, but really entertaining. So I wonder if that game is what they were trying to get the rights to back in the 80s?

Gameplay

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milkmamasilk t1_ja4luz2 wrote

OMG. I finally understand the casting of Chris Pratt now. Makes perfect sense.

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blahblahrasputan t1_ja4mzn0 wrote

Replying to ZylonBane (#2,033,742)

Was it on arcade too? Nice. I was pretty young back then, and for context we had a Commodore 64 (floppy disk and cartridges) until Win95 released lol, we didn't have much money for that sort of thing. So many great memories though! I still spin up og Pirates! Every year or two.

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panthereal t1_ja4u3lo wrote

Yeah, well... I'm gonna go make my own Popeye, with a black stache, and goombas! In fact, forget the Popeye!

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eviltwintomboy t1_ja57yqb wrote

Similar to Star Wars: George Lucas wanted to do Buck Rogers, but couldn’t get the rights to it.

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Bn_scarpia t1_ja5g10d wrote

Somewhere in an alternate universe there's level 1-1 with spinach cans instead of mushrooms and Bowser is a black-hearted thicc boy.

... And Olive Oyl is just as ugly as SMB Peach

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kia75 t1_ja5jp58 wrote

Replying to xopranaut (#2,022,515)

When you realize that Donkey Kong was originally Popeye everything all of a sudden makes sense! Bluto\Donkey Kong stealing Popeye's\Mario's girlfriend, Popeye\Mario all of a sudden becoming invincible when gets the spinach\hammer. All in all its a great translation of a popeye cartoon with the limited technology they had at the time.

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theoneandonlytex t1_ja5k5vk wrote

My dentist office as a kid had arcade games, Popeye was one. Galaga, Hyper Dyne Side Arms, and Robotron were some of the others. Shit dentist but nice game selection

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ShadowSloth3 t1_ja5qje4 wrote

I argued with my brother in law about this last Fourth of July.

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themeatbridge t1_ja609yo wrote

Replying to Beliadin (#2,022,436)

I remember my dentist had an arcade machine with this game on it. It was free to play, but it was very old and the display would not show the floors or ladders, just the sprites moving around the black screen.

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Odysseyan t1_ja6y84z wrote

And in spite, they made sure that no one else, not even fan content creators are ever allowed to use Mario in any way

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maine64 t1_ja7fwvs wrote

There was a Popeye arcade game, but I don't remember which company made it.

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Taleya t1_ja7j7ls wrote

I'm jump-man the jumping man
I live in a garbage can...

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