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Paperboy

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Released Nov 1, 1984

By: Atari Games, Vivid Games, Digital Eclipse, Elite Systems, Mindscape, Sega Mobile

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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.

Genres: Arcade Racing Simulator
Platforms: Acorn Electron Amiga Amstrad CPC Apple II Apple IIGS Arcade Atari ST/STE BBC Microcomputer System Commodore 16 Commodore C64/128/MAX Commodore Plus/4 DOS Legacy Mobile Device Xbox 360 ZX Spectrum iOS
Themes: Action Comedy
Collections: Paperboy
Game modes: Single player
Perspectives: Third person
Keywords: 8-bit bicycling biking breaking through windows cars with no drivers construction death digital distribution digital rights management dog male protagonist platform exclusive removed from xbla rhinoceros training mode young protagonist
Languages: English · Interface
Age ratings: ESRB E PEGI 3

Complete release history (18)

Arcade · Nov 1, 1984
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Arcade · Feb 28, 1985
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Arcade · Oct 1, 1985
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Acorn Electron · 1986
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BBC Microcomputer System · 1986
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Commodore Plus/4 · 1986
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Commodore 16 · 1986
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Commodore C64/128/MAX · 1986
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ZX Spectrum · 1986
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Amstrad CPC · 1987
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Apple IIGS · 1988
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Apple II · 1988
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DOS · 1988
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Amiga · 1989
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Atari ST/STE · 1989
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Legacy Mobile Device · May 2006
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Xbox 360 · Feb 14, 2007
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iOS · Dec 18, 2009
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