Y'know the one that appears on the police computer monitor, on the traffic control grid, when Hooks and callahan are giving directions to the Police car.
The game about some guy riding a cycle on the footpath.
Looks like Paperboy to me, although I could be wrong.
With faith, love...and a counting mutant, she found herself somewhere she never imagined.
Yes it's the classic '80s staple "Paperboy." It's on the Midway Arcade Treasures collection on PS2 among other places.
The computer in that scene is a C64 :)
sharePaperboy was released for C64 as well.
shareBut that Paperboy is not the C64 version, it's the Arcade version.
I think it's weird to mention only some specific, later done retrofitted-for-modern-platform version, when the coin-up arcade version was the original one, and since then, conversions were made for so many platforms.
Your best bet is not some console 'nostalgy collection' crap, but to set up a faithful emulation system that replicates the original arcade version as closely as possible.
You don't need to get some specific, modern game console for it - and it would be even weirder to emulate a modern game console just to emulate an arcade game.
The original game is never "among other places", it's _THE_ version. The PS2 collection version is the weirdly-specific 'other' thing here.
Just look at this Mobygames-list:
http://www.mobygames.com/search/quick?q=paperboy
and tell me again, how some modified PS2 nostalgia-cash-in-version that has really nothing to do with the original, is somehow the definitive version to mention.
Just get a PC, an arcade emulator (MAME, for example), download the zipped Paperboy ROM file from some place, put it in the correct directory, set up MAME correctly, then all you need is a bright CRT television, VGA2SCART-cable (from Germany, for example), Arcade-controller (X-Arcade, for example) and Soft15kHz - plus, a graphics card that can do those original low resolutions.
Then all you have to do is configure Soft15kHz correctly for Paperboy's resolution (which is 512x384 - I am almost 100% convinced the PS2-version is not using this resolution), set up the controls within the emulated Paperboy game in MAME to match your Arcade controller (at your convenience) and you are all set!
Though, I think Paperboy demands an analog controller, so you may as well use your mouse and keyboard for this one, not even needing the arcade controller. Of course you can buy an arcade controller with a trackball, that would solve the problem, too.
Paperboy did have a weird controller, I am not sure if similar arcade controllers exist for the PC or not.
https://r.mprd.se/MAME/cabinets/paperboyr1.png
That was the glory of the Arcade cabinets back in the day - they could have any kind of quirky hardware, and whatever kind of weird control scheme the makers of the game wanted it to have. You could never quite duplicate all those controls at home.
But using a PS2 controller for this would be a travesty, urgh.
For a good example of what I mean, look at Vindicators controllers - heck, even the cabinet looks like a tank.
Here's "Joe's Classic Video Games" showcasing Vindicators:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgy_kCcZMJI
If you must mention that PS2-collection-version, you should only mention it as -one- (particularly crappy) way of emulating the game, not as some kind of definitive version, that can sweep everything else as 'among other things' (frankly, I am surprised you even mentioned there are other things, you seem so impressed with the PS2).
I mean, "Paperboy" probably exists for zillion different emulation schemes and collections, WHY THE HECK mention only one, very specific one, instead of, maybe, just mentioning that it has been brought to many modern consoles as a hacky emulation version to cash-in on people's nostalgy, instead of picking one of those cash-ins and saying THIS is where it exists, and it may exist also elsewhere.
That's like discussing cars, and someone bringing Wartburgs as example of cars, mentioning that other cars may also exist somewhere.
"The computer"? There are at least two computers in that scene, if not more. But yes, there are at least two Commodore 64s, from the looks of it. I think Airplane 2! The Sequel has a Commodore VIC-20 in it, but I am not sure.
It also has sound effects from the Atari 2600 game "Yars' Revenge" in the 'space shuttle explodes because a kid thinks the controls are a video game' scene.