Paperboy Longplay (Arcade) [QHD]
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- Опубліковано 20 сер 2024
- Game Info
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Developer: Atari
Publisher: Atari
Year of Release: 1984
Game Review & Impressions
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Delivering papers might seem like a ridiculously mundane premise for a video game, but to Atari's credit, they managed to produce something that would become an all-time classic. This game got ported to an extensive number of home computers and consoles back in the day, but the arcade version, with it's handle-bar controller and high -res display is definitely the best way to experience the game.
The objective is simple: chuck papers into mailboxes or on the porches of subscriber's homes, and avoid all manner of obstacles lining the route. Engage in petty vandalism of non-subscriber properties for bonus points, then complete the obstacle course en route to the next stage; delivering to all subscribers will cause a new household to sub on subsequent days, while subs you miss will unsubscribe.
Although later arcade games would offer better visual and engaging experiences, I think Paperboy is a solid experience, one of the few Atari games I actually enjoy. There's something undeniably endearing about causing havoc with a sack of tabloids in American suburbia, and it's a game still worth playing today.
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Atari pioneered the hi-res hardware back in the day. 👍
No matter what street you choose, these are some strange and dangerous neighborhoods. This kid should get hazardous duty pay
Classic. The arcade controller handlebars were so neat. Hard but fair. So many good Atari games in that era.
I'm glad you thought it was fair - I always found this game stupidly difficult!
Gotta love Atari during the arcade golden era. Rarely saw the obligatory joystick and buttons controls on an Atari arcade machine, usually something unique like the handlebars on Paperboy.
Many a coins lost in the belly of that machine
Easy Street = hard AF.
On default settings, Atari managed to consistently produce some of the most difficult arcade games ever - this one is no exception
Saw the “best ending” where the Paperboy’s won a golden trophy. Reminds me of “Paperboy 2” where if you help the cops by saving runaway baby carriages, stopping criminals (graffiti, breaking and entering guys, robbers with guns and people running from cops) you’re able to get the police folks on your side (one even slips you a candy bar to keep up the good work). If you do great civic duties through ALL THREE routes (Easy Street, Middle Road and Hard Way), the best ending has the paperboy/paper girl given a big trophy by the Mayor, having been nominated by the police as their sponsor (but you “must be on your best behavior” to get this ending).
Thanks for this, man; takes me back to being in the arcades when I was a kid. Marble Madness, 720° (I could never get the hang of the controls in 720°) and A.P.B.
I had 720° and Paperboy on my humble ZX Spectrum; converted by Elite, if I recall (it was several decades ago!)
This game looked so amazing for 1984. Also I like how you rammed into the old woman twice 😂
Grim reapers and hearses - they didn't mess around back in the day!
Tyres rolling around on their own, Grim Reapers, thieves attempting to break into a dwelling in few view of everyone...
The 80s really were a crazy time!! 🤣🤣
Paperboy was the TRUTH, as 80s as the 80s could be!
This guy killed it, still an extremely difficult game
0:24 - clock strike chime for insert coin!
Well done Completing it on this Awesome Playthrough!
Its one of the Hardest Atari games well known.
Damn dude you flying thru this! Dope
Really surprised they didn't have the dogs come after you, or the guy at the beginning in the t-shirt.
The Paperboy theme music...adding more cowbell way before Will Ferrell did!
Very well played, Al, and I'm a tad relieved that the arcade version doesn't add new Daily Sun subscribers each day. Then again, maybe the programmers thought that the game was difficult enough already. 🙂💡
I remember, when i was a little kid back in the late 1980's, me and my dad played so many great games on our Commodore 64, and PAPERBOY was one of the first games, i have ever played 😺👍🕹️.
I still have the original Arcade version of this game for my PlayStation 2 in a compilation called MIDWAY ARCADE TREASURES 😺👍🕹️.
I also have the Commodore 64 version on both tape and disk formats 😺👍🕹️.
I believe, i still have it also for my
Amiga 500 😺👍🕹️.
And you - AL82 - threw those papers better 😺👍 than me 😹.
Retrospectively excellent work 😺👍🕹️!
I have this in my MAME collection, great game I've played since the ps2
That's rad!
The cowbells...
Paperboy Longplay (Arcade) [QHD]
WB Games needs to make a reboot of this
You did a fine job 👍🏾
Nice gameplay!
(paper breaks window)
So... does this mean no tip?
Does he say "that's casual"? I never heard that slang before and I was around in the 80s
15:38 hit by car
Wow! This reminds me of when my brothers played the original Paperboy on NES when we were kids! :)
i dont understand why they have the Training Ground after youve played through the neighborhood already . Shouldnt you have Training before you deliver papers? ; l
I always thought the game should have been designed to give you a new subscriber the next day if you managed a perfect delivery, and if no mistakes were made tfor six days, then on Sunday every house would be a subscriber.
mad max
Bravo
♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️
10:55
Oh woow
all of his comments sound so '80s
Is this me or is the play area less than the quarter of the screen?
The view pans left and right as you steer - if you get to the rightmost part of the road, you'll have about 50% of the playing area.
Is this on Steam? If not, where?
18:41. VW beetle
gosh...i hated this game so much xD
TAS Gameplay.