Paperboy puts you on the seat of a BMX bike while you deliver newspapers along a Wisteria Lane like suburban street. You can do more than just deliver papers, though. You can fire them through windows, throw them at unsuspecting people and animals, and in a cruel twist of violence you can actually use them to knock a car off a jack onto the guy working on it. Ouch! Ideally, you only vandalize non-subscriber's homes, because if you don't deliver the paper correctly to subscribers, they'll cancel their subscription. You also must avoid hazards along the street. The object of the game is to perfectly deliver papers to subscribers for an entire week and avoid crashing before the week ends. The game lasts for seven in-game days, Monday through Sunday. Some of the obstacles faced are bees, fire hydrants, storm drains, break dancers, cars, skateboarders, drunks, and kids playing with radio controlled toys and even rather bizarre foes such as a tornado, oversized house cats, and even the Grim Reaper himself. Stuff that every neighborhoodh has. Paperboy was an extremely unique game at the time, and it still is today.
“Paperboy” was an exceedingly simplistic game, in which the player controlled a paperboy on a bicycle, charged with delivering newspapers to subscribers, in a sort-of side-scrolling adventure. As the paperboy, the pla... Read Full Review
