Wow, I am terrible at this game.

I used to love renting this game as a kid. I remember the first time a collector told me that they thought this was a bad game, my heart sank.

I still remember a moment from an NES TV show where viewers could write in and try and stump the host. The question one day was "Name 3 things that are red in Paperboy?" The host got it right by answering "The houses, the hats, and.........the newspapers". Get it, because papers are read.

For some games, you don't get to see your score after you get a Game Over or it's difficult to capture the score after a Game Over.  This is one of those games where if you don't score enough points to see the High Scores screen, you don't get to see your final score.  Plus, sometimes I like to mix up the rules a little bit to add an extra challenge to the games.

Argh! I was on a roll! Made it to Thursday with about 4 subs. Fence ended my good luck. Really fun game, better than the second installment. ^>^

31,300 points

Excellent! One of my favs. I think my personal best is like 140k something. Time to get back in the bike after a year or so!

153,950

MMMMMMMM, Sure haven't seen that muscley armed paperboy in a while... I'm hoping he'll come along and bring me some good news.... I've got a freezer full of popsicles!

36,500

Well my thumb is very sore now. Played all yesterday and this morning trying for an awesome run. Finally got it but I still feel like I missed some stuff. 170k or more seems like a real possibility. 
Upped it slightly again
Another run. Upped it again! Wiped out on the bonus level in Saturday where the ramp is. I can taste 170k. So close.

166,900

EDIT:  Updated score below.

I haven't played this game in earnest since I was a kid ... in fact I think I've only beaten it once or twice before today.

updated

just started today

44,700
this score will def go up

94,850 beat it

Interestingly the game doesn't really reward "clean play"... For practice I spoofed a "perfect" delivery game (you end up with 4 red houses left on Sunday)

There are paper-stacks galore, but you can't smash windows other than on 4 houses, and only 10 of the houses have mailboxes (so converted red houses are only worth 300 pts for door delivery instead of 300*X for how many windows you can blow out)

But the game doesn't give you any kind of end-game bonus for how many subscribers you kept, so all of those converted red houses just weigh on you, round after round...

I did end up with 109k, though, from that game, so nailing all 10 mailboxes every time (for 7500 pts per day) is valuable, of course...

Yeah,I thought it strange that there is no reward for trying to keep subscribers other than the 750 points for putting a paper in their mailbox. It's like the game actually wants you to knock out windows and in general be a terrible paperboy.