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ZylonBane t1_ja4mnoa wrote

Reply to comment by blahblahrasputan in TIL: Because Nintendo could not get the rights to the Popeye cartoon character, they came up with Mario instead. by A_Bruised_Reed

All these people who aren't aware that Popeye was originally an arcade game are blowing my mind.

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SheeEttin t1_ja4n000 wrote

Popeye was originally a comic strip

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Solidsnakeerection t1_ja5zhto wrote

Popeye was originally a minor character in Thimble Theater starring Olive Oyl and her boyfriend Harold Hagravy

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blahblahrasputan t1_ja4mzn0 wrote

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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