Paperboy Longplay (Arcade) [QHD]

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  • Опубликовано: 27 апр 2023
  • 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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Комментарии • 46

  • @BikeNutt1970
    @BikeNutt1970 Год назад +24

    Atari pioneered the hi-res hardware back in the day. 👍

  • @JamesCraigWhoop
    @JamesCraigWhoop 11 месяцев назад +5

    Many a coins lost in the belly of that machine

  • @Bobaklives
    @Bobaklives Год назад +9

    Classic. The arcade controller handlebars were so neat. Hard but fair. So many good Atari games in that era.

    • @AchtungBaby77
      @AchtungBaby77 3 месяца назад

      I'm glad you thought it was fair - I always found this game stupidly difficult!

  • @user-qs4ti1bh6e
    @user-qs4ti1bh6e 3 месяца назад +4

    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.

  • @Kyntteri
    @Kyntteri Год назад +8

    Easy Street = hard AF.

    • @AL82RetrogamingLongplays
      @AL82RetrogamingLongplays  Год назад +2

      On default settings, Atari managed to consistently produce some of the most difficult arcade games ever - this one is no exception

  • @shadowjack239
    @shadowjack239 Год назад +3

    Grim reapers and hearses - they didn't mess around back in the day!

  • @Sr19769p
    @Sr19769p Год назад +3

    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!)

  • @theodorehsu5023
    @theodorehsu5023 Год назад +3

    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).

  • @antonios.1894
    @antonios.1894 Месяц назад +1

    No matter what street you choose, these are some strange and dangerous neighborhoods. This kid should get hazardous duty pay

  • @RyneMcKinney
    @RyneMcKinney 7 месяцев назад +1

    This game looked so amazing for 1984. Also I like how you rammed into the old woman twice 😂

  • @MegaMan87
    @MegaMan87 Год назад

    Well done Completing it on this Awesome Playthrough!
    Its one of the Hardest Atari games well known.

  • @quadrupledis-ill-ed2707
    @quadrupledis-ill-ed2707 Год назад

    Damn dude you flying thru this! Dope

  • @AchtungBaby77
    @AchtungBaby77 3 месяца назад

    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!! 🤣🤣

  • @maximkammerer2813
    @maximkammerer2813 Год назад +4

    That's rad!

  • @HATERSHAQ
    @HATERSHAQ Год назад +1

    I have this in my MAME collection, great game I've played since the ps2

  • @ClassicTVMan1981X
    @ClassicTVMan1981X 2 месяца назад

    0:24 - clock strike chime for insert coin!

  • @jaytecx5942
    @jaytecx5942 7 месяцев назад

    You did a fine job 👍🏾

  • @EamonThePhilogynistWalford
    @EamonThePhilogynistWalford Год назад

    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. 🙂💡

  • @BlackCell29.99
    @BlackCell29.99 4 месяца назад

    Paperboy was the TRUTH, as 80s as the 80s could be!

  • @house9850
    @house9850 2 месяца назад

    This guy killed it, still an extremely difficult game

  • @blackflame4506
    @blackflame4506 Год назад

    Nice gameplay!

  • @pablot-r9402
    @pablot-r9402 6 месяцев назад

    The Paperboy theme music...adding more cowbell way before Will Ferrell did!

  • @daviddavenport1485
    @daviddavenport1485 Год назад +2

    WB Games needs to make a reboot of this

  • @LvL_99_Red_Chocobo
    @LvL_99_Red_Chocobo 2 месяца назад

    The cowbells...

  • @ArttuTheCat
    @ArttuTheCat Год назад +2

    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 😺👍🕹️!

  • @ferhat1983aydin
    @ferhat1983aydin Год назад +1

    Bravo

  • @jc1979af
    @jc1979af 6 часов назад

    Does he say "that's casual"? I never heard that slang before and I was around in the 80s

  • @j3llyf1shm4n
    @j3llyf1shm4n Год назад

    Oh woow

  • @JeromeYap-gy1xr
    @JeromeYap-gy1xr 27 дней назад

    mad max

  • @angeldeb82
    @angeldeb82 Год назад

    Wow! This reminds me of when my brothers played the original Paperboy on NES when we were kids! :)

  • @garethlloyd7103
    @garethlloyd7103 4 месяца назад

    Paperboy Longplay (Arcade) [QHD]

  • @paul16451
    @paul16451 6 месяцев назад

    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.

  • @shaneferris1043
    @shaneferris1043 6 месяцев назад +1

    15:38 hit by car

  • @dogus.utoopia
    @dogus.utoopia 9 месяцев назад

    ♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️

  • @filevans
    @filevans Год назад

    all of his comments sound so '80s

  • @dogus.utoopia
    @dogus.utoopia 9 месяцев назад +1

    10:55

  • @examiningdata7952
    @examiningdata7952 Год назад

    18:41. VW beetle

  • @MichaOXS
    @MichaOXS 7 месяцев назад

    TAS Gameplay.

  • @HarlemHyena
    @HarlemHyena Месяц назад

    (paper breaks window)
    So... does this mean no tip?

  • @HappyMealBieber
    @HappyMealBieber 11 месяцев назад

    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

  • @JavisoGaming
    @JavisoGaming Год назад

    Is this on Steam? If not, where?

  • @artman40
    @artman40 3 месяца назад

    Is this me or is the play area less than the quarter of the screen?

    • @AchtungBaby77
      @AchtungBaby77 3 месяца назад

      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.

  • @Okkusen
    @Okkusen Год назад

    gosh...i hated this game so much xD