
Paperboy
November 1, 1984
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.
Genres: Racing, Simulator, Arcade
Platforms: Arcade, bbcmicro, Apple IIGS, C64, ZXS, Atari-ST, Acorn Electron, iOS, C16, DOS, Amiga, Apple][, X360, ACPC, C+4, Mobile