Paperboy Reviews

Some old basic games have stood the test of time: this is not one of them! Paperboy was a 1984 game about a paperboy who has to deliver papers to different houses, all the time avoiding certain hazards along the way. You control the bike riding paperboy and ride up a street giving your papers out. You get points for correct deliveries, ...  Read the complete review

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 ...  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 ...  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 ...  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 ...  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 ...  Read the complete review

The general jist of Paperboy was that the paperboy went round the world killing all mortal enemies, saving hostages, blowing buildings up and doing various death-defying stunts......no hang on....that would mean that the game was good. The sad truth was that the paperboy delivered papers. You had to deliver a certain amount of papers to the right ...  Read the complete review