Paperboy cover art

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Paperboy

1990 · Handheld Electronic LCD · Arcade

About this game

A handheld port of Paperboy, released in 1988.

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.

Screenshots

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Game facts

Release date

Dec 31, 1990

Developer

Tiger Electronics

Publisher

Grandstand, Tiger Electronics

Platforms

Handheld Electronic LCD

Genres

Arcade

Game modes

Single player

Perspective

Side view

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Game data and artwork via IGDB.

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