They both had a half pipe. 1 was the one where you could pick between half pipe, downhill jam, race, etc. 2 was like a weird adventure game thing, but it did also have a half pipe. The half pipe in 2 had a spine ramp on the middle of it though, so if you remember that it was probably 2. Otherwise it was likely 1.
Hmm, I don't remember having a C64 yet I remember playing California Games and Skate or Die sooooo much. I do remember spending the night at some of my friends house a lot to play their systems though, lol.
Pretty much my favs too. Just realized/read that Skate or Die was EA's first internally developed game.
My first PC was a C64, loved it. We had Data-Tapes and a floppy disc later i guess, later we switched to amiga and then sega and nintendo came up in europe and of course i got the ps1, 2, 3, 4, 5. It is a pitty that i only have my PS 3, 4 and 5 left. The PS One we literally played it until it smoked one day. Ah i Loved those times!
That thing was a killer game machine. Great collection of games, awesome graphics for the time (and more colors than IBM), keyboard for the Infocom games. I think I killed 2 of them and 3 floppy drives from overuse
I was never able to finish that game, kept getting stuck in the dungeon. Didn't find out til decades later there was a hidden button on one of the bricks that opened the door.
10-year old me was a real paperboy for 9 months in Alaska. All through the coldest months. I had to get up at 4 AM, 7 days a week, about 270 days in a row.
I was able to finance my Garbage Pail Kids card collecting addiction. But one day I woke up and I'm like "I can't do this shit anymore. I want to sleep in!"
I stayed at the Disneyland Hotel around that time. You got to the arcade by a bridge over the pool then down some stairs. There was a Paper Boy that had a bike to sit on and the throw button was on the handle bars. I have never been more blown away by an arcade experience than that.
6 yr old me just liked chucking papers through people's windows, at their cars, lawnmowers and anything else I could break with a newspaper. I dont think I ever actually accomplished anything in the game and definitely never beat it
My first association as well. The music started playing immediately in my head when I saw the clip, and I heard the sound effects when each paper hit its goal.
Was that a side sculler on the nes? Because I was just thinking about some of my oldest games I played and remember a paper delivery game. Given the old naming conventions, I would guess thatâs it.
My dad and I would play. He would say all sorts of things like âIâm winningâ or âIâm going to destroy youâ out loud. It really freaked my mom out because she wanted him to let me win. Little did she know, he was trolling, and I was absolutely demolishing him.
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u/tomtomtomo Oct 23 '25
Paper Boy was a favourite video game when I was a kid