I remember saving 75$ of my paper route money to buy the NES cartridge of this game. The situational irony was lost on me.

Played this game the whole summer in 1985 & 86 at Adventure Island in Tampa. Best part of the arcade game was smashing the windows of non customers and the race at the end of each level!

In the BBC Micro version looks like the Paperboy turns into an old man having a sit when he crashes lol.

Lol. Paperboy 2 when we were woke before we knew

The NES version of Paperboy was the first western developed NES game

Yeah hell yeah!!! I new video was released! I’m getting stoned AF for this game!!!! ❤🎉

I seriously doubt many of the viewers caught your joke about using the same vitamins as Lance Armstrong.

As if getting chased by The Grim Reaper himself isn't bad enough for our paperboy, but he must also avoid harassment by sentient tires and the lawn mower from Steven King's Maximum Overdrive.

I’ve felt like painting my house black and putting tombstones in my front yard over a missing paper from my paperboy.

My dentist office growing up was just for kids and they had a small arcade and this was one of my favorites to play when I went

I don't think I've ever seen a Paperboy arcade cabinet in the wild, but I sure had a lot of fun with the NES version. They really came up with a great combination of simplicity and addictive fun.

The many hours I put into Paperboy from the arcade to the Nintendo. I remember the first time I finally aced the obstacles course. I jumped up and down so hard in the arcade. People applauded me.

Brings back memories of the spectrum, ST and Amiga versions. Unfortunately I don’t wasn’t old enough to be allowed to venture to the local arcade so I missed out on the arcade version.

I always say that if time travel ever becomes a thing, kickass 80's arcades will be my first stop. Atari truly were masters of creative arcade games, as during this period, every game was so unique(probably my GOAT coin-op maker). They always seemed like the most important thing was to deliver a new way to play games, and they rarely if ever disappointed in this regard. The yolk from Star Wars, the handlebars of Paperboy, the 360 rotating joystick of 720, the trackball for Missle Command, the rotating stick for Xybots, it was never ending. Paperboy also had some killer conversions, with the Master System and the Lynx ports being two of my favorites. As always Patman, thanks for the detailed history lesson, and the walk down memory lane.

There is no purer nostalgia hit then your videos. Outstanding research and wife jokes as usual.

Crying here, didn't knew about your health and life history, a huge inspiration, thanks for sharing as always!

I first played this game in 1985 at Cherryland Mall in Traverse City, Michigan. I totally sucked a$$ at it but it was a lot of fun to play and the sounds and graphics were quite astounding for its time. On a side note, before she dropped me off at the mall’s arcade, my mom had just gotten Tears For Fears’ “Songs from the Big Chair” on cassette and had been playing it nonstop so now whenever I hear any song from that album, I immediately think of Paperboy. Not a bad memory to have.

Loved Paperboy . I think this would be a great remake

I think I might have played a Paperboy Arcade once at the Funspot in Laconia NH, but most of my memories but come the SNES version of Paperboy 2. The graphics were pleasant and I can still groove to the music with the Seinfeld-esque baseline. Thanks for the road down memory lane, Pat!

They had the arcade at our local fair and I got it with my ZX Spectrum for Christmas in 85. I was so excited that Christmas morning!