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Paperboy

Atari Games, Atari Games, Vivid Games · 1984 · Racing · game

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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developer

Atari Games, Vivid Games

publisher

Atari Games, Elite Systems, Mindscape, Sega Mobile, Digital Eclipse

trailers

information

genres

Racing, Simulator, Arcade

modes

Single player

perspective

Third person

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