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| A unique Arcade game and a great experience on NES |
Paperboy was released in the Arcades in 1985 and made its way to the NES in 1988. The game involves the player taking the roll of a neighborhood paperboy who rides a bike and attempts to successfully deliver papers to newspaper subscribers while avoiding obstacles and gaining extra points for using newspapers to vandalize non-subscribers homes.
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| A screenshot of Paperboy showing the paperboy on his bike, sticking to the sidewalk to avoid an obstacle and attempting to line up for a throw to the next house's mailbox (mailboxes only show on subscriber homes). |
Paperboy was an awesome game with a unique premise. The Arcade cabinet had an actual Bicycle Handlebar controller (which was in actuality a modified Star Wars 'yoke' controller). The Arcade game was a mild success, with some of the console (and home PC) ports doing slightly better. Eventually Paperboy would be ported to all the major consoles of the day (into the early 90's) and received a sequel (Paperboy 2) which came to the NES as well as the SNES and Sega systems, etc. Later Paperboy 64 for the N64, along with inclusions in a Midway Classics game, a mobile game in 2005, an XBLA game (although this has since been delisted) and an iOS appearance in 2009 is the last inclusion in the franchise.
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