10 Video Games That Weren't As Good As You Remember 

5. Paperboy

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Video games are supposed to be a form of escapism, right? So why on earth would you want to play a game about you trying to perform a menial task of delivering a paper round, that you likely actually did anyway as a kid. Well, try this on for size: How about we make this game one of the most frustrating things you could do in your whole young life, with perhaps the exception of talking to members of the opposite sex?

The thing is about Paperboy, is that it seemed to be a game that wanted you to fail. It took unnerving pleasure and delight in throwing more and more obstacles in your path. Which is fine, there's nothing wrong with that. Challenges are the whole point of gaming and which is why we have Dark Souls. But with Paperboy it just felt like it was a game that was actively against you, taunting you like some kind of crooked coconut shy at your local funfair.

Which it was really, an arcade machine that was designed to swallow your hard earned coins. In an ironic twist of fate that M. Night Shyamalan would be proud of, the same coins that you probably made from your own paper round. Ouch.

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