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Not sure if you need an account to read this, but Paperboy is undergoing a great deal of bump in value lately. $2500-$3000 for it, with just the control panel hitting $850.

http://forums.arcade-museum.com/showthread.php?t=377053

I thought I had seen them going for $700 on craigslist years ago, I regret not making it work and getting one.

Ice Cream Jonsey wrote:Not sure if you need an account to read this, but Paperboy is undergoing a great deal of bump in value lately.

I loved that game. Was even more fun - as I mentioned in a posting on Caltrops - how a kid showed me how he had discovered a bug allowing him to rack up over a billion points, a "feature" that was eliminated in a later ROM release.

I thought I had seen them going for $700 on craigslist years ago, I regret not making it work and getting one.

In this posting from 2010 on my blog, I mention the joke of how I could have - if I'd had the money, that is - bought the stock of Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.A) at $8000 a share, but even in 1995 it was around $27,000. In 2010 when I wrote the article it was $117,000 a share and today, it's $212,833.

We all have our regrets about what we wish we had done.

Ice Cream Jonsey wrote:Not sure if you need an account to read this, but Paperboy is undergoing a great deal of bump in value lately. $2500-$3000 for it, with just the control panel hitting $850.

http://forums.arcade-museum.com/showthread.php?t=377053

I thought I had seen them going for $700 on craigslist years ago, I regret not making it work and getting one.

I think the value of everything that's not JAMMA and not "one joystick, three buttons" (1J3B ?) will continue to rise. Paperboy hits all three sweet spots in my book: it was memorable, it was fun, and it had unique controls. Going forward, I think that'll be the trend. Eventually the bottom will drop out of everything that you can play in MAME, once the generation of people that remember the real machines is done collecting them.

Out of curiosity, do we know how many of a specific cab is out there in private collections or otherwise? I mean, how many PaperBoy or Arkanoid cabs can there still be?

KLOV.com lists how many users have a particular machine (161 Paperboy owners), but that's not the total number of Paperboy machines out there, only the total number of Paperboy machines owned by KLOV members.

http://www.arcade-museum.com/game_detai ... me_id=8977

According to this document from Atari, 3,442 Paperboy machines were originally made.

http://www.atarigames.com/atarinumbers90s.pdf

I don't know how many survived, but you can mark off that one at the local bowling alley that I kicked the shit out of that stole my quarter. PAPER MAN RAGE!

I just saw a non-working Paperboy cabinet being sold for $1k.

That's crazy.