Paperboy (video game)
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North American arcade flyer
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| Developer(s) |
Atari Games Eastridge Technology (NES) |
| Publisher(s) |
Atari Games Elite Systems Mindscape |
| Distributor(s) | Atari Games |
| Designer(s) | Keith Furey (lead) Eoin Carl Bedard John Salwitz Dave Ralston Russel Dawe |
| Composer(s) | Hal Canon Earl Vickers |
| Platform(s) | Arcade, Various |
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| Genre(s) | Action game |
| Mode(s) | Single player, 2 players alternating turns |
| Cabinet | Custom upright |
| Arcade system | Atari System 2 |
| Display | Horizontal orientation, Raster, medium resolution (Used: 512 x 384) |
Paperboy is a 1985 arcade game developed and published by Atari Games. The player takes the role of a paperboy who delivers a fictional newspaper called "The Daily Sun" along a suburban street on his bicycle. The game was ported to a wide range of video game consoles and personal computers. The Nintendo Entertainment System version is the first NES game developed in the United States, and the Sega Master System version represented the first SMS game developed in the United Kingdom. Paperboy is notable for its unusual theme, which extends to using bike handlebars as the controller.
A sequel for home computers and consoles, Paperboy 2, was released in 1991-2.
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.
The game begins with a choice of difficulty levels: Easy Street, Middle Road and Hard Way. The object of the game is to perfectly deliver papers to subscribers for an entire week and avoid crashing (which counts as one of the player's lives) before the week ends. The game lasts for seven in-game days, Monday through Sunday.
Controlling the paperboy with the handlebar controls, the player attempts to deliver newspapers to subscribers. Each day begins by showing an overview of the street indicating subscribers and non-subscribers. Subscribers and non-subscribers' homes are also easy to discern in the level itself, with subscribers living in brightly colored houses, and non-subscribers living in dark houses.
The cabinet of this game is a standard upright but with custom controls. The controls consist of a bicycle handlebar (a modified Star Wars yoke) with one button on each side, used to throw papers. The handlebars can be pushed forward to accelerate, and pulled back to brake.
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