Paperboy (1984)
- Anno: 1984
- Generi: Simulator, Arcade, Racing
- Piattaforme: Xbox 360, DOS, iOS, Legacy Mobile Device, Arcade, Commodore C64/128/MAX, Apple II, ZX Spectrum, Amiga, Atari ST/STE, Amstrad CPC, BBC Microcomputer System, Commodore 16, Acorn Electron, Apple IIGS, Commodore Plus/4
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.