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.
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!! 🤣🤣
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).
I keep coming back to this video. There is something strangely calming about it. Being a paperboy might have been a stressful job for the player but I find the gameplay quite relaxing.
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!)
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. 🙂💡
A perfect delivery three times! I have seen people play the game on where I was just average..never have seen such brilliant play..you graduated Summa Cum Laude in this game or whom played these games, excellent
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 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.
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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!
Well the NES version is more of a pain to control almost impossible to get used to
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.
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!! 🤣🤣
Many a coins lost in the belly of that machine
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).
I keep coming back to this video. There is something strangely calming about it. Being a paperboy might have been a stressful job for the player but I find the gameplay quite relaxing.
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!
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
Paperboy was the TRUTH, as 80s as the 80s could be!
Really surprised they didn't have the dogs come after you, or the guy at the beginning in the t-shirt.
I despised the lack of control and those red racing cars that tried to run you down/over/bump into you whenever they could!
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. 🙂💡
A perfect delivery three times! I have seen people play the game on where I was just average..never have seen such brilliant play..you graduated Summa Cum Laude in this game or whom played these games, excellent
I have this in my MAME collection, great game I've played since the ps2
Well done Completing it on this Awesome Playthrough!
Its one of the Hardest Atari games well known.
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 😺👍🕹️!
This guy killed it, still an extremely difficult game
0:24 - clock strike chime for insert coin!
It had a very unique controller for the arcade version.
The cowbells...
(paper breaks window)
So... does this mean no tip?
WB Games needs to make a reboot of this
Damn dude you flying thru this! Dope
Does he say "that's casual"? I never heard that slang before and I was around in the 80s
The game looks like it takes place in the 80s,20s with those old cars
That's rad!
Paperboy Longplay (Arcade) [QHD]
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
It's like going to the gym after work.
You did a fine job 👍🏾
Best game ever
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.
15:38 hit by car
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.
Nice gameplay!
mad max
Bravo
10:55
all of his comments sound so '80s
Is this on Steam? If not, where?
Oh woow
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18:41. VW beetle
TAS Gameplay.
gosh...i hated this game so much xD