BundleMidway Arcade Treasures: Extended PlayDec 13, 2005Multi-item package
Release
Thursday, November 1, 1984
Critic score
77/100
Platform families
2
Editorial overview
What it is
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.
Play styles
Single player
Perspective
Third person
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Connected releases
15
Game data from IGDB
Themes
Action · Comedy
Languages
1 supported
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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
Gen 7

Amstrad CPC

Commodore Plus/4

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