Popeye
arcade platform game for Commodore 64, 1983
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The player controls Popeye, the spinach sailor known from comics
and cartoons, with the task to collect the symbols that his beloved one, the
fancy beauty Olive Oyl, throws at him before they drop into the water. The
roles of the antagonists are occupied by Brutus, the always jealous
dislikeable chief brute and the sea witch with her biting vulture Bernard,
who leave nothing undone to bean Popeye. A level is finished when you have
made it to collect a certain number of symbols, whereupon the turbulent ado
continues in the next of altogether three different screens. Popeye starts
with four screen lives and gets a bonus life every 40.000 points.
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Some useful keyboard shortcuts
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[PAUSE] - stop/continue game
[F9] - quick load game state
[F12] - quick save game state (still stored after leaving the site)
[F11] - toggle fullscreen mode
[ScrollLock] - quick switch control ports
[PageDown] - make a screenshot (320x200)