Paperboy

released on Feb 28, 1985

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.


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What "forces of darkness" was the announcer talking about that this child is fighting? Is he at odds with the mafia? Are all non-subscribers in the city pedophiles? Do Nazis love painting their houses red?

Decent isometric visuals and presentation overall, but I never cared for the gameplay.