Popeye Saves The Earth

[night]

Popeye Saves The Earth: this seem like a very cool and fun table, anyone ever played this? Great field artwork, gives me a pop-eyes! http://www.pinballowners.com/pinball/16920/2/2/POPEYE-SAVES-THE-EARTH-pinball.html

http://www.ipdb.org/machine.cgi?gid=1851

 

[Bowflex]

It's not really that great, in my opinion. Especially considering the era it came from. The art is nice but the table looks a bit cheap. Speaking of cheap, the outlanes are awful and lots of shots are difficult because they are obscured by other parts of the game. Finally the tree-hugger theme gets to be a little much. Would be better to just stick to classic Popeye but I guess they figured that did not offer enough variety to create the wizard mode it has. It is very challenging though so if you want a tough game, this is one of the more difficult games ever created.

 

[jaredmorgs]

Popeye Saves The Earth: this seem like a very cool and fun table, anyone ever played this? Great field artwork, gives me a pop-eyes! http://www.pinballowners.com/pinball/16920/2/2/POPEYE-SAVES-THE-EARTH-pinball.html

http://www.ipdb.org/machine.cgi?gid=1851

It is a total plank. One of the worst grossing revenue pinball games of the modern era from memory.

For me it is so bad, I would probably not buy the pack unless the other table was SAFE CRACKER.

 

[Sumez]

Boyz will be boyz - and flipperz their toyz!

 

[night]

Bummer, it looks attractive.

 

[Clawhammer]

A tried and true boat anchor.

 

[drdrey]

They have one near where I live played it a couple times . thought it was ok.then again never met a table I did not like. Right now its out of order

 

[Sean DonCarlos]

Not only was the game itself not particularly fun, but it was prone to a horde of mechanical issues and tended to be out of order a lot.

 

[SKILL_SHOT]

I like the table to its left JOKERZ!

 

[Sinistar]

From earlier thread last year, PopEye Saves the Earth ranks as one of the lowest on IPDB , and for good reasons , it wont be coming to The Pinball Arcade unless someone donates the machine and it's IP rights to FarSight , and even then .

 

[netizen]

It looks like a design that could work as a digital table, mostly because the toys won't breakdown once digitized.

I see some elements that are used in certain ZEN tables quite successfully.

 

[SKILL_SHOT]

I think I recall seeing this as a kid at BULLWINKLES in socal. but I was busy playing PIT FIGHTER loved that game!

 

[Rudy Yagov]

From earlier thread last year, PopEye Saves the Earth ranks as one of the lowest on IPDB , and for good reasons , it wont be coming to The Pinball Arcade unless someone donates the machine and it's IP rights to FarSight , and even then .

It has a 7.0, which isn't even close to "one of the lowest".

Victory is rated lower and it's a confirmed table.

 

[heberts811]

Not a big Popeye fan and I have played this in two different locations. I just don't find it entertaining and Farscape could find much better ways to spend their money IMHO.

Gary

 

[Fungi]

and Farscape could find much better ways to spend their money IMHO.

Gary

What, you mean Crichton, Aeryn and D'Argo?

 

[heberts811]

Oops Farsight.
You know what I meant.

 

[Fungi]

Oops Farsight.
You know what I meant.

Yep, and apparently you knew what I meant.