![]() ![]() It's your job to make sure that all subscribers to the paper get their copy! Also you can go and abuse the people that don't subscribe (an added bonus for those really dedicated workers!). You're the paperboy for that good ol' newspaper The Daily Sun. It's been made on basically all the systems I can think of though, so it can't be all that bad! ) Ok, so it was, honest, but it was darn crap after a while. ALT will pause the game and CTRL will continue it and ESC will quit is you are playing. You can redefine the steering keys, but the main(only) bug is you MUST redefine them every time you play, but pressing left, right, up, down and space isn't too bad a price to pay. Typing 1 will run EGA and 2 will run CGA. Sound is pc speaker and is only music, there are no in-game sounds. You get more point by hitting certain areas, such as the mailbox, front door or the trashcan. When you ride by a house and 'subscriber' appears on your status bar at the bottom, throw a newspaper. You also have a limited number of newspapers, and you can pick up more by riding over the piles on the left side of the street. You have 5 lives to use, each time you hit something a life goes. Walls, cars, fences, rolling tyres and even people block your way. You play the role of a boy trying to get his newspapers to the right houses whilst avoiding obstacles. That's my story and I'm sticking with it.Paperboy is a simple yet fun no-brainer game. Anyways I now have a working Paperboy, a classic and fun game to play, gotta love it. I can show up and look over the game, and if it isn't as described I can laugh out loud and go home with cash still From now on, I think all my arcades will come fromĬraigslist. I bought it, replaced it, got the T-shirt and saved the whales. Offered to sell me just the lower video board. Well something was definitely not right on the video board and swapping the video RAM didn't fix it. To top things off messing with the power supply voltage as he mentioned didn't fix the problem. Plays great!" for the auction description and follow up email. I seem to remember the words "works, game Rebuild the ARIII board for a more stable power supply." WOW.you never mentioned that in the auction either. After emailing the seller he told me "Yeah I noticed that problem off and on and I would adjust the power supply to clear it up. I tried swapping the video RAM chips around but it didn'tįix the problem. WAIT.not so fast, about a week later the portions of the video became corrupted. Well I replace the bad amplifier chip on the ARIII board and itįixed the sound. I think he knew, and didn't know how to fix the problem An email to the guy said he never noticed it. After getting it home I discovered it had a bad right amplifier on the ARIII board. Round trip road trip I wasn't going home empty handed. I played it onsite and thought the sound was a little off but after a 768 mile ![]() ![]() Monitors aren't cheap and I didn't want another monitor project on my hands. Well that's good news, because I am sure those medium resolution Unfortunately I forgot to grab a camera to document this road trip.Īfter I arrived at my destination, I was able to see that the monitor is nice and sharp and the cab is in decent shape. I ended up being the only bidder for this game on ebay, and This was THEE mode of transportation back in the day. Your sizing up which game to playįirst going down the rows, joystick, joystick, joystick, trackball, wait a second, handlebars? What’s this? Now as a 13 year oldīoy before the days of the internet, satellite tv and 24 hour cartoon network, you spent a lot of your time riding your bicycleĪround the neighborhood with your friends. You walk into your local arcade, surveying all the different gamesĪvailable to play, all the while looking for any new games that may have just come account. The year was 1985, and Paperboy just hit the arcades. Lot of cowbell, to its high detailed graphics, this is one of those games that you just couldn’t pass up playing back in the day. Suburban neighborhood, just doing your best to survive to the end of the week. And what’s not to like about this game? You are paperboy, delivering newspapers to a For those who remember Paperboy, its the unique handlebar controller ![]()
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