Paperboy gets tossed this week

Lol, the best picture and comment for ANY Gamespot news story. I plan on purchasing this game. The game was excellent on the NES and it will be even better on the 360 with Online.

Paperboy was awesome and its another gr8 classic to hit live this and mk3 are gr8

Ooh. Root Beer Tapper followed by Paperboy. Where will the quality end...?

dang.....hopefullly this comes to the virtual console too. i always tried to play it in the arcade but the stupid bike handlebars "controller" was impossible to use.

This sort of thing would be far happier on the Wii VC.

Fomr day one of XBLA I've been waiting for this game...... HOt damn!! I will destroy this and you and..AHHHH!!!!!!

Sweet I really did like the old Paper Boy games there were cool.

I'm surprised no one's made a GTA-style version of Paperboy. Just think of how fun that could be. Breaking other Paperboys' legs, bullying customers into subscribing...

NIceness. I may check this one out. BTW nice picture :lol:

I never noticed the headline till Dkg pointed it out...than I laughed my ass off. ..How did that one slip by?

That headline....how did that one slip by the censors?

I used to play paperboy all the time! This should be fun

Bladefist They need to do either TMNT, Xmen, or the Simpsons arcade games! **** it! I am emailing them now! Yeah, turtles games nad the simpsons arcade games where fantastic!, but still, paperboy is my old arcade game, only mario kart can ever outlive it

Ah, Paperboy...good times, good times... The people at XBOX Live! Arcade aren't stupid. They're not going to give you five games in one week so you can buy the top two while the other three don't sell at all. Even the movie and music industries stagger release dates, so it's sensible that XBLA does the same. Sony has a pretty good library of older games, so I'm sure they'll get in the mix eventually too. In the meantime, I hope that the games on XBLA and Virtual Console aren't mutually exclusive. Just because a game like Paperboy appears on one system doesn't mean it shouldn't come up on the other. (But if I have to choose between Microsoft's port of the original arcade game and Nintendo's port of the 8-bit console game, my choice is clear.)

When the hell is SotN coming out? It was supposed to be out in January.

......I want WORMS!!!

"modernized" audio and "new artwork." I think "added half a pixel and 2 kbps" is more accurate :P Seriously, they should do more with the "modernizing" than they have so far. Still looks 1980 to me... But then again, I'm sure many like it that way.

hahahaha, good memories about this one!

so it wont be on the virtual console then? yknow with xbox live and the virtual console kinda drawing a line in the sand, will ps3 even bother to offer the same kind of system or will there be any classic games left by the time nintendo and microsoft pick thru them all?

A must-have for me!!

This game is a classic. I first played this on the NES when I was about 6 or 7 years old. Ahh....the memories!!

I really enjoyed Paperboy on the NES. So I might give this a go.

that game was great on the gameboy

I still remember when I first accidently figured out that breaking the window of a house brings you a new subscriber. I was so amazed.

Paperboy is a great series, no doubt.

i hope paper boy 2 or was it 3 comes out on wii, i miss paperboy

I loved that game of Game boy. (I never played the arcade verison). So i am definitively getting this.

Finally. I've had 400 points just sitting around for this game for over 8 months now. Next 400 I spend is for 720, if it ever makes it out.

whooohoooo....XBL finally gives us a classic.....IM NOT WORTHY

this will be mine... and now I have a controller that actually works, prepare to see outrageous high scores!!

one of my fav game of all time!!

This is great and all but.. I think it would be nice if they would release more games per week... there are tons of games "finished" that could be added at once... why not do that? I'm guessing most likely because if Worms, SOTN, Castle Crashers and Alien Homnid were out Paper Boy and Root Beer tapper wouldn't sell at all.... I bought Tapper just because I was bored! Grant it it's a decent game and it's fun to get the achievements but its really just an impulse buy for me.. I want the real meat and patatoes

That headline sounds, well suggestive.

aaahhh the memories of the good ol commodore 64 are flooding back...

Can't wait. I really had fun with this game.

Nothing better to hit Valentines Day then a paperboy!

Paperboy is a really fun game so I will get it.

i dont care about this game !! WHERE ARE WORMS AND CASTLEVANIA!!!!!?????!!

They need to do either TMNT, Xmen, or the Simpsons arcade games! **** it! I am emailing them now!

Was hoping they'd alternate (at the least between classic and newer arcade titles). Hopefully Castlevania or Alien Hominid drop next week.

Sweet.

Can we please start getting to the real Sh$t on live arcade like X-men vs. Streetfighter, Crimefighters, Any streetfighter alpha, Double dragon!!!!!!!!!!!! Why they keep giving us this bullsh$t? And why only one game a week? Come on microsoft get it together!!!!!!!!

Is it like the NES version or what never seen the arcade game.

Also still waiting for Worms.

Still waiting for worms.

They should have the Rom hack "Knifeboy" where you deliver bloody knives to assassins instead of papers.

Aww, it comes out on Valentines Day how cute. :|

This is a great classic, and adding a coop mode makes is more interesting. To bad they didnt have that back in the day or else I could of used R.O.B. the robot on the old nes to help me out...lol. Someone here also mentioned about Burgertime...now that was a fun game and would be better with a coop mode...Now everybody dust off your light guns because next weeks classic will be Duck Hunt...lol