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This document Copyright 2004,2017 Daniel Engel
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Popeye FAQ
November 30, 2017
Daniel (DEngel) Engel
dan.engel.2017 [AT] gmail [DOT] com



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                             (A) TABLE OF CONTENTS
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Table of Contents

 (A) This Table of Contents
 (B) Introduction
 (C) Controls
 (D) Enemies
 (E) Basics
 (F) Experimental


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                                (B) INTRODUCTION
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Popeye is as close as you can get to the arcade version of the same game, given
the technology of the Odyssey^2.  Which basically boils down to a single stage
that you play until you die, and in the words of The Simpsons, "then try to
BREAK that record!"

However pretty much all games used to be like that, I don't think you'd see
people running to check out the high score section in their favourite games
magazines these days though. ;)


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                                 (C) CONTROLS
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The controls for this game are as follows:


Left/Right - Moves Popeye left or right.

Up/Down - Climb the ladder, ride one of the elevators, or use stairs.

Fire - Punch [to eat spinach, grab drowning hearts, or break Bluto's bottles].


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                                  (D) ENEMIES
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There is only the one enemy in the game [Bluto], but he's a big annoying one.


Bluto can kill you by running into you, he can also jump up from the floor
below and punch you.  Bluto can lie down and grab you from the floor above as
well.  If all this is not enough Bluto can also through bottles at you from a
distance.  If you're fast though you can punch the bottles before they hit you.

The bottom line is try to stay as far away from him as possible and you'll live
longer!


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                                   (E) BASICS
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                           Bricklayer J. Gastronomy

Pictured below is the basic stage layout for the game:

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|  |            O             | 1|
|  |----       ----       ----|  |
| E|         H                |  |
|  |   ----            ----   |  |
|  |  P                       |  |
|  |--------------------------|  |
|  |           +  +     B     |  |
|  |           +  +    BBB    |  |
|  |           +  +    BBB    |E |
|  |--------------------------|  |
|  |\           /\           /|  |
| S| \         /  \         / |  |
|--------------------------------|
|################################|
|--------------------------------|
|       0142->?????? 0153        |
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1 = Which life you are on (out of 3)
O = Olive
H = One of Olive's Hearts
E = Elevator (2)
P = Popeye (you)
S = Spinach
+ = Ladder
\ = Stairs
# - Water


Basically the two elevators move up and down continuously and you can use them
at any time should you need to.  Simply walk to the wall and hold up or down
(whichever way you want to travel) and the elevator will take you that way as
it passes.

You can also climb down the ladder in the middle of the stage, but this can be
slow at times so keep that in mind.

The spinach at the bottom of the screen switches from the bottom left corner
and the bottom right corner.  Simply walk to whatever corner it's in and punch
it to eat it.  At this point Popeye turns red and his theme music starts
playing.  If you touch Bluto at this point you'll send him flying into the
water below and out of your way for a few seconds.

The numbers at the bottom screen from left to right indicate your best score
and your current score.


Otherwise your main source of points in the game are the hearts that Olive
drops constantly.  They slowly float down the stage until they're either caught
by you or they land in the water at the bottom.

Once a heart lands in the water you need to get down there FAST to collect it.
You have a little bit of time to get down there but once it starts flashing and
you hear a warning noise there's very little time left.  If you still leave
that heart then it drowns and Olive gets angry with you, which means you lose a
life.

Unlike the arcade version of the game you can use the spinach as much as you
like, so I encourage you to do exactly that!


As I said earlier there's only the one stage to the game, so you basically play
until you've got a really high score or get bored.


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                               (F) EXPERIMENTAL
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~Dan