Popeye: Rush for Spinach has Popeye throwing the gauntlet in a series of races on different vehicles, trying to defeat the fierce opposition presented by other popular characters, such as Olive Oyl, Wimpy and Brutus. The Magic Pockets-developed game features four fully playable characters, 12 races in richly detailed and interactive landscapes, 13 locomotion types for each character, and a four-player link mode with confrontation and cooperation.
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shame on you popeye
Played this as a kid back when I was really into Popeye for some reason and didn't have access to things like Boomerang to actually watch the cartoon. You'd think that something like this would be a bad shovelware title, but it was actually a surprisingly competent 2D racing platformer, and I was honestly rather satisfied with it. The game has a pretty solid difficulty curve that favors learning the courses and never gets too hard while also never really remaining a cakewalk, and the levels are pretty okay-ly designed. The game definitely didn't rock my world, but it was good fun and was a surprisingly decent part of kid mes GBA repertoire.