Hi my name is Roger and i am the proud owner to the irish build Popeye. I know this is a rare piece
I can tell you the story how i get on hold of it. I had collecting games for a while when i ask my friend "exhibitor" if he didn´t know of any Popeye sitting in storage, a couple of month later when i called him, he told me that he hade found a man that was sitting on a Popeye stored in a shed. We made a deal and i thought i bought a Nintendo Popeye
I imagined it beside my DKJR and red DK
I was suprised (little disappointed) the day i went to pick it up in september 2013. But after i searched the internet i realized this was an odd piece.I can tell you what´s inside, wells-gardner G07, orginal Nintendo Popeye pcb and as you already figured out an Atari ARII board/ Atari powersupply.In my collection i also have Millipede, Food Fight (same Irish cabinet) I have 40+ dedicated games. I´m not interested to scan the artwork as some of you wanted, i don´t want replicas to popup everyware
. But i´m interested if someone has more information of this game, how many Atari Tippary factory produced. I seen a list of games produced at the factory but no information regarding Popeye. Where did they go ? I can´t imagine this is the last irish Popeye who has survived.
