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Popeye no Eigo Asobi | |
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Developer(s) | Nintendo |
Publisher(s) | Nintendo |
Producer(s) | Shigeru Miyamoto |
Platform(s) | Family Computer |
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Genre(s) | Educational, platform |
Mode(s) | Single-player, multiplayer |
Popeye no Eigo Asobi[a] (English: Popeye's English Fun) is a 1983 edutainment platform video game developed and published by Nintendo for the Family Computer.[1] The game was based on the comic strip of same name created by E. C. Segar and licensed from King Features Entertainment. It is a spin-off of the Popeye arcade game made by Nintendo. It was released exclusively in Japan. It was followed by the similar Donkey Kong Jr. Math, which was released about one month later. This game was never released in North America because of the majority of English speakers in the United States and Canada and a corresponding version that would teach players Japanese was not created due to the technical limitations of the Nintendo Entertainment System along with the lack of popularity in the West to learn Japanese aside from cultural or business purposes in the 1980s.
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