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Paperboy

Lifecycle

  1. Released on iOS

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.

Details

Developer
Atari GamesVivid Games
Publisher
MindscapeDigital EclipseElite SystemsSega Mobile
Platforms
iOS
Genres
RacingSimulationArcade
Themes
ActionComedy
Modes
Single-player
Perspectives
Third person
Age ratings
ESRB E, PEGI 3

Languages

LanguagesInterfaceAudioSubtitles
English