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