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Paperboy

Paperboy (1984)

by Atari Games·1984-11-01

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.

014 releases

Arcade1 edition
  • Standardphysical
    1984-11-01
PC (DOS)1 edition
  • Standarddigital
    1988-12-31
Xbox 3601 edition
  • Standard
    2007-02-14
iOS1 edition
  • Standarddigital
    2009-12-18

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