Paperboy

Paperboy

1984 · Atari Games

2.72 out of 5, 100 ratings

About

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.

Release date
November 1, 1984
Developer
Atari Games, Atari Games, Vivid Games
Publisher
Atari Games, Elite Systems, Mindscape, Elite Systems, Sega Mobile, Digital Eclipse
Genres
RacingSimulatorArcade
Themes
ActionComedy
Age rating
PEGI 3ESRB E

Media

Platforms

iOS
Xbox 360
Arcade
BBC Microcomputer System
Apple IIGS
Commodore C64/128/MAX
ZX Spectrum
Atari ST/STE
Acorn Electron
Commodore 16
DOS
Amiga
Apple II
Amstrad CPC
Commodore Plus/4
Legacy Mobile Device

Release dates

ArcadeFull release
North America · Nov 1, 1984
ArcadeFull release
Europe · Feb 28, 1985
ArcadeFull release
Japan · Oct 1, 1985

Time to beat

Rushed1 h
Average2 h
Completionist5 h

Languages

LanguagesAudioSubtitlesInterface
English (US)