Popeye (1994)

Popeye: Ijiwaru Majo Seahag no Maki is a board game and sidescroller action game in one. The goal is to recover all the hearts scattered around the game board and defeat any mini-bosses presented by Popeye villains, and then finally defeat the seahag. The game's levels which are called stages feature large level maps that appear in the form of a board game in which the player will have to take turns moving around, explore each of its spaces, and obtain the hearts of Popeye's frozen friends. There are also spaces that serves different purposes throughout the game. The beginning of each stage starts with by showing the player which character will have to be saved. Their heart the rises skyward and splits into various pieces, those pieces then scatter onto random spaces of the map which the space will appear as an enclosed heart. When on the map, the player presses the action button a wheel will appear with spaces numbered 1-6 which will help determine the player's moves throughout the game. The game had a cancelled release in North America under the title of "Popeye", but ended up being released in Brazil under said title.

Storyline

After countless defeats at the hands of Popeye, the evil Seahag has devised a fool proof plan for revenge. She turns all of Popeye's friends into stone by removing their hearts and scattering the pieces across the corresponding islands. Now Popeye must search for the hearts within each of five islands in order to revive them. It won't be easy, as General Bunzo and his troops has issued a "100,000,000G" bounty for the hearts. This prompts the likes of Bolo, Ox to try and collect the hearts for the reward. Upon reading this, Brutus decides to quest for the hearts as well in a plan to impress Olive. Thus making this a race against time for Popeye to save his friends and put a stop to Seahag's plan.