Nintendo has a long association wth the comic character Popeye. The company produced licensed NES and Game & Watch titles based on E. C. Segar's hero, and Donkey Kong - its first smash hit - was originally supposed to feature the spinach-gulping sailor.
Now, artist Ed Peppe has fused Nintendo's past with its present by reimagining the cast of Popeye as characters from ARMS.
Should ARMS become a massive franchise in its own right, maybe we'll see Nintendo produce a Popeye-based spin-off? Probably not, but it's nice to dream.
[source twitter.com]
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What happened to popeye?
I don't want to be the first comment, can someone else please post?
EDIT.
Someone posted 9 seconds before me, phew.
Used to have a popeye gameboy game was great
Bluto and Olive look great, can't say I rate the others though.
Brutus the Barber Beefcake. Cheese Steak. Give you 2 then my knees ache. Then take 2 to alleviate. Right left, left right. It'll be the best fight. Online all the time. Til' single player quest night. Hip-Pop Arms-Olive Oiled up!
Very cool.
Nintendo should seriously put these in the game, even if it's just alternative skins or something like that. Could be a cool bit of DLC.
The stuff of nightmares 😨
On Commodore 64 I had Popeye Wrestling where you had to wrestle aliens, so this isn't that strange to me
Hahahaha... !!
Brilliant!
All i can say is DLC
IT MAKES SO MUCH SENSE
I'd love to see this as DLC, I'd pay good money for it too!
That's a creative and well-executed cross-over!
I'm a huge fan of Popeye and I approve. Pretty cool.
Popeye for Smash
The subtitle is wrong, he says "I yams what I yams."
This art is genius BTW.
I doubt it will happen, but it's a spinoff that I could get behind!
I love the Popeye arcade game by Nintendo, this is just too perfect!
popeye and the others as ARMS fighters. that would be interesting. it could make an interesting DLC.
the art work is great as well.
Can Nintendo even use Popeye anymore? The NES version of the arcade game has been MIA since it's original release. Never came to any Virtual Console, wasn't in the NES classic. Almost seems like the licensing deal ran out.
I put in plenty of time on the original arcade version back in the early 80s. The NES version was just as much a step down as the NES Donkey Kong (though I recall it at least had all the levels).
It doesn't seem like the Nintendo of today is as interested in licensed characters. Back then they hadn't established their own roster of well known characters (Jumpman hadn't evolved yet), but now it seems they'd rather feature their own creations rather than pay for the rights to feature characters your great-grandfather grew up with.
Very clever. Nice lines.
That's the wrong eye for Popeye's pop eye. I love Popeye (and his arcade and NES games), and I'm pretty sure I will love Arms; but these character designs are baaaaad. I guess Bluto and Wimpy are passable, but Popeye and Olive are brutal. The less said about Eugene, the better.
What a strange yet welcome idea.
I wish Popeye could come to Virtual Console. I like that game.
I love the Min Min one, these are great
Pretty cool!
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