Paperboy has the distinction of being the first ever US-developed NES game (among 160 or so ports to all home computers and consoles in the known universe) and it eventually did get a Famicom release but it was critically panned and considered total kusoge. Oh well, the game was probably just too American for Japan to ever "get" it.
>>12550665a lot of people hate this game but i like it so nuts to them
this always felt like the ultimate boomer game and tf honestly likes Paperboy? were newspaper delivery boys even still a thing when this came out? seems like something from boomers' childhoods.
>>12550665Had one of these, was pretty fun.
>>12550701It was only fun in the arcades with the handlebar controller.
Oh no, it's Devo! Get it? Ha ha ha. Actually I seem to be the only person who gets the joke/reference.
>>12550665Paperboy looks a lot like a DOS PC game which belies its American origins.
>>12550665the Master System port was also the first game for that system to be UK-developed. it's a pretty good port but another one that doesn't work with a Genesis controller as it uses a funny way of reading the control input.
the Famicom release was handled by Altron a publisher who seemed to specialize in releasing Western-developed NES games in Japan.
This is kind of funny/personal to me since I had gotten my NES Everdrive around that time and they would have been playing that tourney when I first got into Paperboy.
only played the snes game but i loved all the different interactions there were. i was always shit at the game but it was a solid rental back when my video store was slow to get new snes games
>>12550736Also someone in the comment section thought Altron should have put Gauntlet in Japan instead since it was much better. Nah they weren't gonna do that, it was an expensive mapper game. Paperboy was CNROM so it cost pocket lint to produce.
>>12550704This was unironically more fun than most of the video versions, which all have awful control and perspective
>>12550701I knew a kid who had a paper route in the 80's. Shit, my dad was still getting paper deliveries in like the early 2000's although by then it was an adult in a car rather than a kid on a bike. It was a small town thing. If you had a few dozen subscribers clustered in a small area it made senseNot sure exactly when they switched from paper boys to paper adults but from what i remember the issue wasn't so much that the kids were unreliable but that in bad weather it just didn't make sense to have some poor kid trying to ride his bike through a thunderstorm. And they always had to try and cram it in before school. Having someone in a car do it just worked better
>>12550765in my town there was a teenage girl who ran a paper route and got abducted and murdered by a serial killer back in the early 90s. so that too maybe scared people off from it.
>>12550665the arcade game was old as dirt by the time this port was done, it came out early in the Famicom's lifespan and was easy to do a port of. also cheap since it only needed a small ROM.
>>12550765>PAPERMANNow thats a modern reboot of this franchise i would like to see.>>12550768Or this.
>>12550768Ugh. Every time a tits gets involved in something it inevitably gets ruined.
>>12550706And nigh impossible to perfect run
>>12550701Yeah, I don't know why exactly it's considered a classicThere are much better games that released earlier, and it's pretty lame compared to something like Hang-On which released the same year
>>12550731And in an amusing turn of events, they eventually went on to become a developer of games based on western IPs, typically for release by western publishers. A lot of Nickelodeon and Disney games during the GBA and DS era were developed by Altron.As for Paperboy, they actually updated the game a bit when they released it for the Famicom. They were also going to give a similar updated treatment to the GB version of Paperboy, but they ultimately scrapped it.
>>12550701I bought my genesis by delivering newspapers, it was a great first job for kids. Shoveling snow was the other job that paid well in elementary school but it was seasonal.With that said the NES port waa shit. Paperboy can only he played on original arcade hardware with bike controller.
>>12550701 >>12550985>something from boomers' childhoods.newspapers still exist today. so do their subscriptions. are zoomers this retarded and do they really only spend every single hour of their day watching zooming tock ticks online?in my cunt, paperboys never existed though. it was always a family biz where mostly indians with pickup trucks or vans would deliver them door to door, and to office buildings too. IRL paper MSM is dying but they're still printing that shit.also boomers' childhoods were in the 1960s. no NES or britbong PCs existed in those days. fucking zoomers can't even count .
>>12550701I believe one of my cousins (in heavily rural-leaning suburbia) was a paperboy in the 90s. I was completely unaware of such a thing where I lived at the time (urban-leaning suburbia), pretty sure that by the time I became aware of the paper delivery system, it had already switched over to somebody throwing them out of their minivan at 4AM.
I've never seen anyone mention Paperboy 2 when discussing these games. What's with the disdain?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0FMPm-Fi3Y
Paper "boys" (specifically) always seemed like an American thing to me. In my country you can't hire teenagers except for some very specific cases for which the teenager had been in training for that job for years, and even then we're talking 16 years old minimum. My dad was still getting paper delivery at 5 am in the 00's though but it was a young adult. I think at some point they switched to delivery through regular post however.The whole "throwing shit at doorsteps" always seemed so american as well. I mean, what are mailboxes for? What the actual fuck.The game was still very well known here though
>>12551139i'm a little curious to know if the "throwing shit at doorsteps" is even a real thing, i've only seen it in american movies, and for all i know it could just be a trope or jab at particularly lazy delivery boys and not actually a typical/expected thing
>>12551139Typically the paper wound up in the yard or on the sidewalk/walkway leading up to the house. I don't think the paper can legally be left inside a mailbox. Suburban American housing subdivisions can get pretty massive, so if one paperboy hopes to deliver all the papers to an area by a certain time, they can't exactly be meticulous about placing each customer's paper on their doorstep.
>>12550701I don't remember seeing papers being thrown by kids on bikes in my neighborhood (although I do remember seeing the papers in plastic bags on our lawn) but I do have vague memories of paper boys in a lot of 80s movies. Guess that could also be because they were basically boomer-created media though.
>>12551139Not everyone had mailboxes out on the curb. Our box was by the front door and even if the dude was willing stop, get out and walk up everyone's driveways and make every delivery 3 times as long a rolled-up newspaper was kind of big to try cramming into the porch-sized mailboxes anyway.You gotta remember this is America and at the time most homes had long-ass driveways and big yards. It was like 30 feet from our front porch to the curb. Our dude never even aimed for the doorway, just got it in the driveway and called it good. It was part of the morning ritual to walk out to the end of the driveway and retrieve the fucking thing. Every once in a while it would wind up in the bushes and you'd have to go hunting for it. Kind of a pain the ass but in a weird way I miss it.
>>12551209>I don't think the paper can legally be left inside a mailboxthat's pretty odd to me, where i live it is or at least was pretty common for mailboxes to have a tube or other large opening specifically for receiving newspapers
>>12551216>Not everyone had mailboxes out on the curb.this is even more surprising, really? i've never seen a mailbox not accessible from the public side of a fence or boundary, i certainly wouldn't expect mail to be delivered otherwise
>>12550998>also boomers' childhoods were in the 1960s. no NES or britbong PCs existed in those days. fucking zoomers can't even count .Boomers in real life: normalfag old people now in their 70s>Boomer on /v/: anyone over 30>Boomer on /vr/: anyone over 40Why do people still stuggle with this? Its as if the is some kind of neuro divergent disorder that makes people take things literally, and not understand body language or sarcasm. What could it be?
>>12551449I'm sorry but we don't do tiktok logic around here
>>12550998>also boomers' childhoods were in the 1960s. no NES or britbong PCs existed in those days. fucking zoomers can't even count .you can't do basic reading comprension
We used to get a paper delivered when I was a kid. I think we stopped for a couple of reasons, mainly that the paper went to shit, it seemed like a waste of money and no-one bothered reading it. IIRC a while after we stopped getting it they stopped delivering altogether.Always had a soft spot for the game though, there is something very down to earth about it.
>>12551224>>12551221>>12551216In the US, it would indeed be illegal for a paperboy to leave the paper inside the mailbox. https://about.usps.com/news/state-releases/tx/2010/tx_2010_0909.htm
>>12551673(except on Sunday, apparently)
>>12551673wow, that's strange.like i get laws regarding things like restricting what can be connected to a phone line, but what can be put in a mailbox? that i bought? and is on my property?i suppose that'd make "junk mail" illegal there, but sometimes junk mail is useful, especially back before everyone had internet access so you could be told about sales or get coupons and the like, but then it would also make it illegal for the occasional lost pet printout to be posted around.
>>12550704I really need to remember where I put mine.
>>12551449>Why do people still stuggle with this? Its as if the is some kind of neuro divergent disorder that makes people take things literally, and not understand body language or sarcasm. What could it be?Saying /vr/ has autists is like saying water is wet.
They got to bring this one back
I had a paper route as a boy in the early-mid 90s. I had part of the neighborhood which was houses and townhouses and my friend who lived a few doors down had another route which was the other part of the neighborhood and another street down. We would work together, sometime trading routes, or covering for each other if one was sick or busy. We would use bikes and rollerblades to deliver the papers but throwing them was never an option. It just wasn't feasible. I wasn't about to buy my own elastic bands and spend the time to prep the papers for throwing a few feet. They would likely just explode everywhere anyway. So one guy carried the papers on the bike, the other guy hand delivered the paper to the door on rollerblades. He saved enough money for an N64 and I saved enough money for a PlayStation.
>>12551452>tiktokBoth the "30 year old boomer" and "ok boomer" originated on 4chan and were stolen by reddit a few years later. Both versions were used for making fun of Millennials. Because /vr/ has more people over 40 compared to /v/ it was used more for them when telling their grandpa simpson stories.
>>12550701this was out gta 6 back then, it was a realistic sim in being a paper boy and the graphics were the most realistic for it's time. You just had to be there zoom zoom
>>12551947>Both versions were used for making fun of Millennials.This is some serious zoomcuck revisionism. It's strange that you broccoliheads don't even remember what happened a few years ago.
>>12552961Paperboy was also the loudest arcade game (by default), along with APB. The very distinct sounds drowned out all other games in an arcade back then. You would walk into an arcade and instantly know they had paperboy. Atari system2, I dunno what was different about it but the games sounded unearthly.
I'm 48 and had a paper route in my teens when I could drive. The newspaper had its own plastic box delivery usually below your mailbox but separate. I did indeed throw the paper out my passenger seat window onto people's yard, curbs, porches, etc. if they did not have a paper box for me to lean over and place it. Some of the people I knew who also delivered the paper drove from the passenger seat or had a bench seat where they sat in the middle and operated both pedals with their left foot. A couple of us had a partner or would trade off being in the passenger seat for the other guy. The days that were most like the video game were when I was just giving everyone in the neighborhood a paper as a sample for promotion, which happened very often so you just threw them all onto their driveways. It was fun and a pretty decent way to make I can't remember now maybe $50 a week? I know it paid for my monthly car insurance. Putting the papers in bright orange plastic bags on the days it rained and chucking them under the porch as far as you could I thought was kind of fun. Sometimes you threw it in a puddle and they would call and complain so you'd have to do better next time.
>>12550701Paperboys were still a thing in the suburbs in the 80s, they started to be phased out by the 90s. I know our neighborhoods paperboy was like the son of one of my mom's friends from church or something
>>12550701yes they were still a thing. the prime newspaper demographic of the greatest generation were still in there 60s. paperboys didn't start becoming scarce until the general decline of newspapers in the 00s.
>>12552973Huh? "30 year old boomer" was indeed used to mock millennials, though it failed in that regard because most just found it amusing and embraced it. The biggest impact was the resulting counter-memes targeting "zoomers," which then became the official term for Gen Z.
>>12551224Nah mailmen walking up to people's doors was fairly common.A lot of old houses had slots in the door for the mailman to push mail through but if you didn't it was pretty normal to have a box by the front door. But those boxes were accessible, though. We didn't have a fence in the front.Is it really so weird, though? It's basically the same shit Amazon drivers do now
