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These are two early NES games that I think would do well for remakes/remasters. I’d love to see Popeye with graphics that look just like the cartoons and maybe with some gameplay additions. And Urban Champion would be fun to revisit as a full-fledged one-on-one fighter with more characters and online play.

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That's an interesting bit of history on Popeye.

I commented before that I think you underrated Popeye a little, even if it's not exactly good (C/C- for me). But maybe I just have too much nostalgia for it, since I did own it and played it a good amount back then, while I probably only play it once every 5 years these days. I had "Popeye Meets Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves" (from 1937!) on VHS for some reason, and watched it a ton, so I suppose that's why my parents got me the Popeye NES game.

I consider Popeye a horror game. It's basically the early NES version of Alien: Isolation. When you think you have some comfortable distance from Bluto and he suddenly jumps down from a higher level right next to you, that sure got my heart pumping as a kid.

Urban Champions is definitely the worse game. Though in the days before proper fighting games, it at least had a niche. I think you can have 5-10 minutes of fun with it with a friend, if neither of you have played it recently (or ever). To me, that's worth a little more than D-, but eh, I get it.

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