If there’s one game I can definitely class as a ‘dad game’ it would be paper boy. The amount of times someone who grew up in the 80’s talks about paper boy is quite funny really. Oh well let’s see how I can stretch this review out for a good couple of minutes…like what more do you want? It’s a boy that delivers newspapers.

So, as the paper boy you have to throw the newspapers at the different peoples properties, making sure to throw them in the mailboxes for the subscribers and throw them into the windows of the non-subscribers. As you go along each street you make sure not to hit any of the obstacles or to put it lightly…you can kiss your career goodbye. You also have to make sure to grab more newspapers so you don’t run out of windows to smash.

Paperboy is an interesting and quirky little game that does what it says. I could’ve done a bigger review but trust me…that will come soon.

Quirky, silly gameplay, does what it says, screw that traffic

Reviewed on Aug 08, 2023


2 Comments


9 months ago

YES! It's absolutely baffling hearing older Gen X people talk about Paperboy like it's some sort of masterpiece. Obviously all they had was early arcade games and Atari at the time, but practically every other 80s arcade title I've played holds up better than this one. Why do they all love Paperboy??

9 months ago

@thealexmott I have no idea but it is really funny how often it happens