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GAJoe:

I've noticed a few people have done really beautiful conversions of Nintendo Popeye cabinets to Donkey Kong machines.  Has anyone restored a Popeye machine or converted a DK/DK Jr./DK 3 to a Popeye?

If you do a search here for Popeye cabinet, almost every thread is about getting a Popeye cabinet for a  Donkey Kong conversion.  Poor Popeye. 

leapinlew:

Olive Oil loves Popeye. She also loves Bluto. Goofy broad...

TOK:

I can get through all the levels, maybe 50k, but never considered it that fun of a game. The whole mechanic frustrates me, constantly going up and down the levels, sometimes struggling to hit the diagonals for the steps and not being able to do just a little jump to get that note or heart thats dropping slowly above me.

I really don't like a lot of Nintendo's Golden Age games. I like DK, but don't care for DK Jr, and think DK3 is awful.

GAJoe:


--- Quote from: TOK on June 03, 2008, 12:38:55 pm ---I can get through all the levels, maybe 50k, but never considered it that fun of a game. The whole mechanic frustrates me, constantly going up and down the levels, sometimes struggling to hit the diagonals for the steps and not being able to do just a little jump to get that note or heart thats dropping slowly above me.

I really don't like a lot of Nintendo's Golden Age games. I like DK, but don't care for DK Jr, and think DK3 is awful.

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Agreed, the diagonals for the stairs are a pain.  Gameplay aside, though, I was really talking about the cabinets.  If all the Popeyes get converted to Donkey Kongs, there won't be any more Popeye cabinets for the people that do love the game's mechanics.  I'm just considering the ethical/moral whatever question of turning a working Popeye or a mostly intact Popeye into a Donkey Kong just because everyone likes Donkey Kong more.   Good gameplay seems irrelevant when someone spends 10 grand on a Computer Space machine.

Then again, what's really entailed in the conversion.  Rotating the monitor, changing the sideart, marquee, bezel, and control panel?  Easily undone back to a Popeye I suppose, except for getting new sideart.

leapinlew:


--- Quote from: GAJoe on June 03, 2008, 12:45:48 pm ---I'm just considering the ethical/moral whatever question of turning a working Popeye or a mostly intact Popeye into a Donkey Kong just because everyone likes Donkey Kong more.   

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Oh geez.... seems like a good enough reason to me. Restore 1 pseudo classic for a real classic. It's not like Popeye's are near extinction or anything.

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