Paperboy cover art

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Paperboy

1991 · Sega Game Gear · Arcade

About this game

Game Gear port of Paperboy

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, 1991

Publisher

Tengen

Platforms

Sega Game Gear

Genres

Arcade

Themes

Action

Game modes

Single player

Perspective

Bird view / Isometric

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Game data and artwork via IGDB.

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