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Paperboy
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Paperboy

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Paperboy casts you as a kid on a bike tossing newspapers at houses along a suburban street shown in angled perspective. Your job: hit subscribers' porches daily for a full week while dodging cars, breakdancers, lawnmowers, and other hazards that crowd the route. Miss a delivery or accidentally smash a subscriber's window and you lose that customer. The game encourages mischief—you're meant to vandalize non-subscribers' homes by pelting them with papers. Each run ends with an obstacle course where you rack up bonus points. Controls use the handlebar cabinet (or adapted buttons on home ports) to steer and throw. It's a score-chaser built around timing and spatial judgment, not story or progression.

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Atari Games
Publisher
Atari Games
Release
Nov 1, 1984
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98 ratings
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77/100
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Time to Beat
~3h
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X360PCAPPLEATARIBBC MCOMMOLEGACZX SP
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