1984

Paperboy

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Xbox 360 iOS Arcade DOS Amiga Atari ST/STE Legacy Mobile Device Amstrad CPC Apple II Commodore C64/128/MAX ZX Spectrum BBC Microcomputer System Acorn Electron Apple IIGS Commodore 16 Commodore Plus/4

Developer: Atari Games, Vivid Games

Publisher: Mindscape, Digital Eclipse, Elite Systems, Sega Mobile

Game Modes Single player

Themes Action, Comedy

Perspective Third person

Critics Score 77/100 (2 reviews)

Summary

Paperboy is a 1985 arcade game by Atari Games originally developed in 1984 . The players take the role of a paperboy who delivers newspapers along a suburban street on his bicycle. The game was ported to numerous video game consoles and personal computers. Paperboy was innovative for its theme and novel controls. The player controls a paperboy on a bicycle delivering newspapers along a suburban street which is displayed in a cabinet perspective (or oblique projection) view. The player attempts to deliver a week of daily newspapers to subscribing customers, attempts to vandalize non-subscribers' homes and must avoid hazards along the street. Subscribers are lost by missing a delivery or damaging a subscriber's house.