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Paperboy
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Item Description
In the mid-'80s, Paperboy was the arcade cabinet with bicycle handlebars bolted to the front, and its premise was gleefully mischievous: deliver the morning paper to your subscribers and wreck everyone else's house. Atari Games' satire of suburban America, with its diagonal street, perfect lawns and quietly chaotic neighbors, became one of the most recognizable coin-ops of its day, and in 1990 Mindscape brought it to the Game Boy.
The rules are simple and the street is not. Each house on the route is either a customer or a target. Land a paper on a subscriber's porch or in the mailbox and you keep that customer; miss, or put one through the wrong window, and the subscription is cancelled. Non-subscribers are fair game, and smashing their windows pays off in points. Standing between you and a clean route are construction workers, runaway tires, skateboarders, dogs, cats, traffic and even the occasional tornado, and each new day on the route brings more of them.
On the Game Boy the handlebars become the D-pad and the street scrolls past in crisp monochrome, but the tension of the original survives intact: every throw is a small decision about angle, timing and how much risk you can afford. It started a run on Nintendo's handhelds that continued with Paperboy 2 and a later Game Boy Color edition, and it is a fine way to carry Atari's gleefully destructive arcade idea in your pocket.
Fast factsgame data via IGDB
- Released
- 1990
- Publisher
- Mindscape
- Developer
- Atari
- Genre
- Arcade
- Players
- Single player
About the game
The object of Paperboy is to deliver papers to your customers while inflicting as much damage as possible to the houses of your non-customers. To make things more difficult, numerous obstacles get in your way including construction workers, rogue tires, skateboarders, dogs and cats, cars, and even the occasional tornado.
Summary from the IGDB community database — the condition and contents of this listing are described above and in the photos.
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Game Boy
PaperboyB · Collector Grade
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Game Boy
PaperboyB · Collector Grade
$15.99
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