We shouldn’t have started with Paperboy, though. An 80s coin-op icon, it’s perhaps one of those games that has Bagpuss syndrome. Lots of people swear it was great, until they sit in front of it again. The idea is neat enough, that you cycle around on your paper round, making sure the right houses get the right papers, and doing a bit of damage to non-customers’ property at the same time. It’s strangely reminiscent of this writers’ neighbourhood. But it’s a limited old fella, and truthfully, it lasted little longer than half an hour before it got switched off, only to be resurrected again in a years’ time when we’re feeling soppy again.

Perhaps it’s the lack of the bicycle bars controller that’s hurt it. Or perhaps it was always – whisper it – a little bit crap and we were all afraid to say?

Next up: Gauntlet. Expect more old memories to be shattered soon, then.