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Paperboy
Paperboy
Publishers: Tengen, Tec Toy
Release date: Dec 1991
Summary:
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.
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Average Score
80%
The Spam Weasel
Graphics
4.0
Sound
4.0
Gameplay
4.0
FunFactor
4.0
Challenge
4.0
4
80%
Pricing Information
Used : 12.82 Complete: 24.79 New: 62.0
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EGM issue # 40, Nov 1992
Page #152 ( Inset )
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