Paperboy is an arcade developed by Atari Games, released 1 November 1984 on Xbox 360, Acorn Electron, Amiga and Amstrad CPC. The main story takes about 3 hrs to finish.
What Paperboy is
Paperboy is an arcade game developed by Atari Games and released in 1984. It is available on Xbox 360, Acorn Electron, Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Apple II, Apple IIGS, Arcade, Atari ST/STE, BBC Microcomputer System, Commodore 16, Commodore C64/128/MAX, Commodore Plus/4, DOS, iOS, Legacy Mobile Device and ZX Spectrum.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Paperboy is a 1985 action video game developed and published by Atari Games for arcades. The player takes the role of a paperboy who delivers a fictional newspaper called The Daily Sun to houses on a street while riding his bicycle. The arcade version featured bike handlebars as the controller.
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action and comedy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
Paperboy holds a critic score of 77 out of 100. That places it above 60% of the 2,164 rated arcade games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 1984 averaged 73, so it scored 4 points above the year average. Players rate it 66, 11 points lower than critics did — a gap worth knowing about before you buy.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 3 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 5 hrs, roughly 1.7 times the length of the critical path.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Paperboy yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
Screenshots
All media
Dlc
Remakes
Quick answers
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