Paperboy

November 1, 1984 Atari Games, Atari Games, Vivid Games Atari Games, Elite Systems, Mindscape, Elite Systems, Sega Mobile, Digital Eclipse
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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.
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User Score
76.7
Critic Score
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Total Score
100
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Game Info

Release Date November 1, 1984
Developer Atari Games, Atari Games, Vivid Games
Publisher Atari Games, Elite Systems, Mindscape, Elite Systems, Sega Mobile, Digital Eclipse
Game Modes Single player
Perspective Third person
Themes Action, Comedy