Paperboy

by Atari Games, Vivid Games · published by Elite Systems, Mindscape, Sega Mobile, Digital Eclipse · Paperboy series

1984 · X360, DOS, C64, Amiga, ACPC, ZXS

Simulator Racing Arcade Action Single-player Comedy Third person

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.