Paperboy

The hours of fun I had on this game when I had my Commodore64 must add up to a year or two of my lifetime on this planet. It is so simple yet so addictive and in my opinion it's a cult classic that will never die. The game consists of a young lad on his bike who has to deliver papers around the neighbourhood. He doesn't get off his bike so therefore this means that he basically lobs the paper and hopes for the best. The aim of the game is to get as many papers into the correct post boxes as you make your way through the streets. You get points for hitting some windows and doors and various other things and points are deducted if you hit the wrong thing. You ...  Read the complete review

However simplistic, cheap-looking and frustrating to play, Tengen’s ‘Paperboy’ remains one of the more memorable Amiga games I struggled through as a child. Devoid of a plot or any kind of versatility in gameplay from the onset, Paperboy sees a young boy attempting to deliver newspapers to an American suburban community that seems bent on destroying him and his little bike. GAMEPLAY & CONTROLS Paperboy is played from an aerial view that begins looking down from the left, becomes a central birdseye view in the middle of the stage and shifts to the right for the third part. The Amiga joystick moves Paperboy’s bike left or right, and ...  Read the complete review

The stark limitations of early video game graphics meant that game designers frequently ended up setting their creations in surrealist universes rather than the real world, so invariably the player would end up controlling an anthropomorphic, top-hat-and-monacle-wearing jacket potato collecting diamonds on the rings of Saturn, or piloting a blocky little spacecraft that fired blocks at block-monsters against the black backdrop of deep space. All this made paperboy's mundane suburban setting seem all the more appealing, the game requiring you to guide a bike-riding paperboy through a series of suburban streets, dodging traffic and residents whilst throwing papers into ...  Read the complete review

The original Paperboy game was originally a coin operated game before being made for the Amiga by Atari games, and has since been made for several other computer systems. Game play You play as a paperboy and have to deliver papers on your bike along streets, whilst avoiding objects in your path and cars. The game lasts for seven days one paper for each day, Monday to Sunday. You have to deliver papers to subscribers house and you lose subscribers by failing to deliver the papers or damaging their houses and you gain them by delivering papers perfectly, you get bonus points for getting them through the letterbox or post box and lose points for ...  Read the complete review

This game involves the gamer controlling a paperboy on a bicycle which you have to throw newspapers at houses that have signed up to your paper but at the same time you have to throw papers and trash people who have not signed up to your newspaper. The game has three levels easy, medium and hard. The gamer must go through an entire week without crashing the bicycle and the last for 7 days (Monday to Sunday). I remember it being very hard not too crash but managed to complete it in the end. There is a training mode which enables the gamer to practice before taking to the streets. The harder the levels the faster it gets along with extra obstacles and ...  Read the complete review