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The Arcade Express newsletter scored it 7 out of 10 in January 1983, calling it "the closest thing to a videogame cartoon seen yet in an arcade", but also that "game play, unfortunately, doesn't come up to visual standards.
Antic wrote that the Atari 8-bit version "is a thoroughly entertaining challenge for gamers of all ages" and its mechanics unique among climbing games gave it above-average replay value.
In 8/1983 it was released outside Japan as a Game & Watch colour screen tabletop.
Nintendo had originally intended to make a video game based on the Popeye characters, but had trouble accurately depicting them.
After the success of Donkey Kong, Nintendo revived plans for a Popeye game, partly as a replacement for their unreleased 1981 game Sky Skipper.
Electronic Games wrote in 1983 the arcade version of Popeye at first appeared to be "yet another variation of a theme that's become all too familiar since Donkey Kong [...
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