I’m not sure if it was 1985 or '86, but I’m pretty sure…Anyways, on the game, you get on a bike, deliver papers(hence the name “PAPERboy”) and get 100 points iof it lands on a WELCOME mat 250 if it lands on the mailbox, and it’s possible to break windows! Although you shouldn’t. Anyways, there are 3 levels, “Easy Street,” “The Middle one” and “The Hard Way”(get it, “way”?). Anyways, some of the obstacles are dudes(who look idiotic) on trikes, and on “The Hard Way,” I haven’t even passed “Easy Street” yet, there are dudes on unicycles! Ha ha! Except the fact that they have mohawks, sunglasses and a nose ring, that’s bad. Has anyone even gotten to this level? I mean, come on, there are well over 12,000 members in this website! Someone has to have played it, right?
EDIT: In my nickname, on the left, it says I’m 11('cause I am), so you might think, “She wasn’t even born in '85, how’s she know about the game?” so I’ll explain that loophole. My dad has a PSP(PlayStation Portable) and a game called “Midway Arcade 3”(I think) and it has tons of old games with horrible grafics, and I came across PAPERBOY and…
I used to love paperboy when I was little, it’s a great game. Glad to see it’s still being played! The fact that there are unicyclists in it makes it even better of course.
The same unicycle dudes show up in “720 Degrees”… Atari makes both Paperboy and 720 Degrees, so there was probably a mohawk-sporting unicyclist working for them at the time
More likely a lazy programmer who thought he’d just shift some code over and no-one would notice. I feel a little younger than usual, i was born in the year that was released.
What can they say? The lazy programmer liked the idea of creepy unicyclists…or was(or is) one and there’s also the possibility he(or she) is reading this right now in fear as we speak(type) because we noticed his/her laziness!
i wasnt aware paperboy was that old. when i had an N64 (1997) there was a 3d version of paperboy. it looked much as the original does, but it was in 3d and there were no unicyclists.
yea i had paperboy for sega genesis. i loved that game. you could throw the paper at the car with the guy under it, and the car would fall on the guy. that would make me laugh for a good ten minutes when i was little.
The problem with the MAME version of paperboy is that in teh arcade teh machine had a bike handlebar for control. So emulating it on keys or even with a control pad doesn’t work very well.
Holy crud,
Probably 10 - 12 years ago I would have been 6 or 7 I saw this game on top of my fridge or on a cupboard or something. We had a sega genesis and I could tell it had been hidden as a gift for another time, so I left it there and waited patiently. But it never came and we moved away and then it was lost forever. I asked a lot of people if they had heard about this game, and was beginning to doubt if it ever existed, and thinking maybe I had made it up. Now I know it did, and I’m pissed I never got it.
The sega one had a really bad ass kid on a bike on the front, I think he had like longish blonde hair and a backwards red hat, with a big toothy grin/snarl. I can remember it pretty vividly.
We used to spend many, many hours playing Bomb Jack on a friend’s Atari ST. I can’t really remember what you had to do in the game, but I do remember that it was awesome…
I also thought(for a moment) that I made up that my brother was getting a PS2 for his birthday, it’s still in the car’s trunk(I think). Anyways, you can still get it in arcade-collection(don’t-lose-your-quarters) games for PC, PSP, GameBoy, maybe Nintendo DS…make sure you KNOW it’s there before buying it.
I’ve always hated Paperboy. The handlebar controller at the arcade just didn’t feel right, and the collision detection usually infuriated me. I couldn’t figure out why riding a bike down a sidewalk in a video game had to be so much more difficult than in real life. Also, playing a “job simulator” just seems silly.
