I've probably never seen even the second half of the first level...man this game was unforgiving.

I often think of that game! It's big part of my childhood! Playing that game in summer-times in the cellar on our C64! Then go out and bicycle myself! Awesome music too, so uplifting and upbeat! Paperboy C64 rules!

All the details made this a great game, the little "perfect delivery" jingle, you could smash the windows, knock the lids off the garbage cans etc etc.

Oh, how I used to play this on my father's Commodore 64. I had so much fun playing that game. The gameplay still lingered in my dreams when I no longer played C64 games when our C64 kicked the bucket.

LOL this is about 90% more of the game than I have ever seen. I love how the street just randomly changes colours as the weekdays go by, and holy crap... I forgot how chaotic this game was!

I think this was the first game I've ever played where you could destroy the environment. Man, did I have fun breaking all the windows.... and lanterns.... and neighbours....

Thanks for sharing this video. I remember playing this game for the first time at a video arcade in Ocean City, Maryland back in 1985 or so. My parents later bought me the C=64 version. Had a lot of good times playing that game.

Throwback! 35 years ago as if it were now....

I love how janky this neighbourhood is... loose tires rolling around, people running into traffic, lawnmowers just rolling their way into the street. It would be a good neighbourhood to open a funeral parlour!

Best version of all

Love the music. The arcade version didn't have this cool music.

The music and the game are so cool...I need a C64 again...oh...so long time ago I spent my nights with this great stuff, lol😀🎶

13:23 JFC... that is right out of my childhood nightmares!

Epic music!

I probably tried to play this game when I was a child, and I probably got knocked off the bike more frequently than I could count. My sister, brother and our family friend also played and hardly did better than me. The dogs actually inspired the friend and my brother, when they were playing Jumpman and lost a round, to say in unison, “WWWWWWOOF!” Today in 2023, I say that to myself when I lose any game I play. P. S. I have also referred to the music from this game whenever I play one or both of “R-E-S-P -E-C-T” or “Feelin’ Alright”.

good game,good old memories

This game snapped a broom handle off in your butt and laughed mercilessly as you struggled through it. Paperboy makes tough games of today look like _Little Mary Sunshine_ in comparison

In 35 years, I have not made it past Wednesday, nor had a perfect delivery.

That music! I LOVED this game as a child. I wa so disappointed when I got the NES version and it didn't have this Awesome music.

Maybe if they would buy some papers, they wouldn't get newspapers through their windows.

oh paperboy, i used to play this with my brother in the 80s..it was hard game,cant remember did i ever finish this:)

2:12 epic chefs :D

C64 had way better music than the NES version

This caused alot of swearing and crying as a kid haha

Every building had a graveyard outside it.

The finish music is what I hear in my head when I get home from work each day.

"I remember it like it was yesterday..." the balding, middle aged man began. "..the Paper Wars of Eighty-Six." He looked up at me and narrowed his eyes, taking another shot fromt he bottle of Jack on the counter next to him. "I was a fresh-faced young recruit. A lot of us were. The veterans.. survivors, really.. boys 16, 17, 18 years old - they all warned us. They warned us to quit on the spot and never look back. But how can you tell that to a kid being offered five dollars a bundle? Five dollars a bundle for a few hours' work - you could make $40 bucks a day, easy, if you were quick. That's $280 a week, son - more like six hundred today.." He sighed, and glanced over to the collection of photos on the wall.. one of them is a younger version of himself, arm-in-arm with two other boys. "Five dollars a bundle.. to deliver.. in the sunny mornings of Southern California..."

Wow. Paperboy in this version really looks like Pat ther NES punk!

Too bad this isn't being played at 60hz. It always sounded a lot more heart-pounding frantic here in NTSC-land!

I remember playing this this was a cool game

Zzap reviewers were wankers. I had a lot of fun playing this as a kid :)

Wow, I've been playing this game wrong the whole time. Never realized, that a "Dark" houe meant they weren't a subscriber. So even houses without the paper box... No wonder i always failed at this game and lost subscribers.

Fantastic port from the look of it. Though, I can't gauge the difficulty or controls without trying it.

Wow I actually feel guilty as I LOVED this game at the arcades (spent a lot of of my wages being a REAL paperboy on being a digital one) Anyway I loved my Commodore 64 but remember being disappointed by this port BUT it's actually more than decent Love how the fat chick only starts jogging when you are level with her then only.manages 12 feet haha great game, brilliant.memories .

I don't believe that anyone could shoot all the mysterious tombstones.

imagine if paperboys were like that in real life.. smashing all your windows.

Hey man I didn't get my paper.

When I played with this as a child in the early 90's I've never noticed that only white houses shoul get their paper :-D (btw that time I didn't speak english)

These ads are unforgiving

1 of the earliest I played on a console definitely,I had zx but mate had commodore so I must have played it on his as a didn't have a C64

Isn't last tune of video, where you are inputting your name, Telstar by Tornadoes? I live my whole live in this, but now I am not so sure.

I think back in those days the biggest fear of game devs was people find their game easy to play.

CRASHHH! Honey! Paper's here!

Load"*",8,1

Ha loved this game

Tostissimo, ma era di una difficoltà incredibile

2:13 epic bosses

👌👌!

Geil. Hab das nie geschafft.

DAMN YOU'RE GOOD

IMHO they could have done better with the colors in the last stage, rather than replying the same scheme of the first stage.. For example switching the blue with red.

0:00 Bootleg rave

What’s that blue thing that looks like a dog standing up?

To me the music seems wrong? Different to what I remember

How about reinventing this game to the new platforms?

16:09 WTF IS THAT?!?

The amstrad version looks way better, why does the c64 have crappy muted colours....it has better music though

Why did Zzap! give this game only 44% but go and give garbage arcade conversions like Forgotten Worlds and Golden Axe Sizzler awards?!? I can't help but feel that they were getting kickbacks from certain companies to say nice things about rubbish games.

Ce l'avevo anch'io, ma era difettoso e riuscii a caricarlo solo due volte

The colors of this game are terrible

What a terrible version this was die if you hit the curb, die if you hit the drain, can't avoid the car, can't hit people with the papers. It's unplayable and not fun. Much better on the spectrum

A horrible game. Ugly as hell. I always thought the black background colour was a bug from cracking the original game. I am so glad, I did not pay for this. One of the worst modern C64 games.