Atari Games

Paperboy

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.

Released: 1 November 1984
Developer: Atari Games
Publisher: Atari Games
Perspective: Third person
Age rating: PEGI 3 · ESRB E
Platforms: Arcade · BBC Microcomputer System · Apple IIGS · Commodore C64/128/MAX · ZX Spectrum · Atari ST/STE · Acorn Electron · iOS · Commodore 16 · DOS · Amiga · Apple II · Xbox 360 · Amstrad CPC · Commodore Plus/4 · Legacy Mobile Device
Genres: Racing · Simulator · Arcade

65
Player rating: 77
Critic rating: 100
Ratings counted

Paperboy