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1985 Rewind
bobbyb13:
One of the entertaining things about being my age is that in middle school and half of high school my primary job was still working as the neighborhood paperboy.
So in that fateful year of 1985 it seemed like the arcade gods had seen fit to create a ridiculous game meant only to immortalize what was presently my most humble vocation.
Oh, the joys of delivering The Evening Sentinel no matter what the weather, to people I would often have to chase for a few dollars every other week so that they could enjoy yesterday's news that evening.
The rain, the snow, the wipeouts when my paper sling got caught in something and flung me, the bruised shins, crushed gonads, blood and scabs.
Ahhhh....
All for $ to pump into arcade machines and buy burgers and pizza.
And bike parts.
The nostalgia of it all!
And so this is my justification (that and a few double Mai Tais) for yet another leap over the edge here, that and the fact that after 4 years now of trying, I have succeeded in gathering all the parts to make one of these!
I've really wanted to have a Paperboy machine (once I discovered that this could be possible- thank you lords of MAME!) but it was obvious that the biggest hurdle to a proper playing machine was that elusive controller.
So now I have no excuse!
If you were fortunate enough to play that cabinet in the wild, you would probably agree there really is no proper substitute.
The Star Wars yoke works for it of course, but that only rekindled that dream of a proper set of bars and reliving the joy and pain (but this time without the actual pain!) of my teen years.
Big props to markrl on klov for fortuitously posting the last axle and spring housings that I needed to make a functional Paperboy handlebar yoke- and giving me a great deal on them too!
Better still, he has made so many of these Atari 2 cabs that he also had artwork available.
I figured having that to begin with would help immensely in ensuring I got proper proprtions for what would inevtiably be a scratch build yet again.
And so it begins...
I spent the standard hour plus with straight edges and tape measure and profile tracings to calculate what was as authentic as possible for a cabinet body.
I had entertained the idea of checking in with a local cabinet business that I know has a few CNC tables and seeing how those files from classicarcadecabinets would go, and then thought... screw it!
CNC my eye... Give me a few clamps and a SkilSaw!
Use the jigsaw to finish the circular saw cuts without overcutting, clean up the edges with a random orbital, run the router with a slot cutter, and voila!
I'm going to make the cab an inch wider than original in case for some reason it winds up with a larger screen in it at some point.
Just thinking ahead.
I got a bit of the blocking on both sides after that pic and also build the base compete with casters so the next hour I have to spend on this it will be a standing box already.
Ironic that the BitKit and Multi-Williams are only waiting for artwork to be done (which I still haven't made a final call on yet) and this one I am beginning with it.
Go figure.
:dunno
Zebidee:
--- Quote from: bobbyb13 on January 16, 2022, 01:55:07 am ---CNC my eye... Give me a few clamps and a SkilSaw!
--- End quote ---
I like your attitude!
Dunno where you find the time!
Is this going in next to your SF Rush double?
Mike A:
Yeah. CNC is not necessary.
You can still use the DXF files from that website.
It will give you all of the measurements you need.
javeryh:
Oh man this is going to be good. I never quite figured out how to play Paperboy when I was a kid - it used to take my quarters in about 20 seconds - but I liked the game for some reason. Probably because I used to deliver newspapers on my bike as well. I was really terrible and I haven’t played in decades because of the unique controls.
nitrogen_widget:
in highschool we were at the arcade watching a buddy just do terrible at paperboy.
until a few cute girls came up to watch and he somehow completed the level with perfection.
he was sweating and his knuckles were white afterword. lol.
we were playing street hockey and someone said "hey we need a goal, someone call their sister to come watch so paperboy can score"
lol.
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