Paperboy

Published by Toronto Mike on May 26, 2011 @ 22:10 in Memories

nintendoIn the late 80s, I played Paperboy on my Nintendo Entertainment System.

It first became one of my favourite games in the arcade where me and my buddy Chris would spend countless hours and quarters delivering newspapers along a suburban street.

As I recall, Paperboy was our go-to game until Wonder Boy, and Wonder Boy had us until the local variety store brought in Xenophobe.

PaperboyGameplay

Believe it or not, those graphics once blew my mind.

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Wayner
May 26, 2011 / 22:40

Starwars, Spyhunter Paperboy always got my money

Roshan
May 26, 2011 / 23:02

This reminds of the Atari video games I had. My dad bought us this system back in 85 or 86 and we played the games a lot. Some fighter jet game, an igloo building & ice block hopping stuff, bowling things like that.

Andrew
May 26, 2011 / 23:49

Paperboy of the Commodore 64 is where it was at!

Burger Time, Space Taxi (Pad 6 Please!!), Kung Fu, Magic vs. Bird... all classics!

Good time wasted... good times.

Cheers,
Andrew

Toronto Mike
May 27, 2011 / 07:20

Wait a minute... maybe I wasn't playing Paperboy on the NES. Maybe it was the Commodore 64.

In fact, it was the Commodore 64!
http://www.torontomike.com/2006/01/my_link_of_the_day_7.html

Andrew
May 27, 2011 / 09:20

It's ok Mike... I can see where the confusion may lay. Paperboy saw the light of day on many platforms. Most of the first generation gaming machines had their signature games - Atari 2600 had Battle Tanks, Pong, Pac-Man and Asteroids. Coleco Vision had Donkey Kong - that was about it! Intellivision had all the sports games plus my fav Dungeons & Dragons and then the NES came out and that changed the whole landscape.

Man... I wasted a lot of good year!!

Cheers,
Andrew

Ryan G
May 27, 2011 / 09:30

many many years ago, there was one kid on our street who always smelled bad.

i mean bad. in school he got harrassed and picked on quite a bit..

..until he got his atari 2600.

all the sudden we were always over at his stinky ass house playin those games. it's there that i discovered his sister too. she stunk a bit too but boy what a difference some boobies make..

Cambo
May 27, 2011 / 09:34

River Raid!!!

Someone even went through the trouble of posting the game online:

http://www.absolutist.com/online/riverraid/

Brother Ryan
May 28, 2011 / 10:40

Mike, I knew right away you were mistaken. I played with you bud and it was the Commodore 64 for sure....

I have the best memories. I actually remember having dreams as a kid what the backyards were like as we could never get back there on our bikes in the game....

Good times....

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