Popeye Saves the Earth! Posted on July 28, 2014January 8, 2024 by Kris Bliznick We just finished this Popeye Saves the Earth for a good friend of ours. Our kids had fun playing with it, and we got in a few good games, too. Bally came out with this game in 1994. Around 4,200 machines were sold. (IPDB) We gave this one a full shop job, with LEDs for the inserts, GI and flash bulbs. I yam what I yam. And that’s all that I yam.