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Paperboy is an adventure, action, racing, simulator, and arcade video game developed by Atari Games and Vivid Games. It was published by Atari Games, Elite Systems, Mindscape, and Sega Mobile. The game supports single-player mode and is rated Everyone by the ESRB.
The title was released in 1984, 1985, 1990, and 1991. It is available on the Arcade, BBC Microcomputer System, Apple IIGS, Commodore C64/128/MAX, and ZX Spectrum platforms. Critical reception includes a Metacritic score of 71, an IGDB critic rating of 77 from two critics, and a user rating of 54 from 98 ratings. Another source lists a rating of 3.67.
Synthesized by Vinony from 17 facts across 3 sources: Wikidata, RAWG, IGDB. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Game data
Metacritic 71- Released
- 1985-04-01
- User rating
- 3.67 / 5
- Genres
- Adventure, Action
- Platforms
- PC, Xbox 360, Nintendo 64, Game Boy Color, Game Boy, NES, Apple II, Commodore / Amiga, Atari ST, Atari Lynx, Genesis, SEGA Master System, Game Gear
- ESRB
- Everyone
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Game details · IGDB
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-subscri…
- Released
- 1984
- Genres
- Racing, Simulator, Arcade
- Platforms
- Arcade, BBC Microcomputer System, Apple IIGS, Commodore C64/128/MAX, ZX Spectrum, Atari ST/STE, Acorn Electron, iOS, Commodore 16, DOS, Amiga, Apple II
- Game modes
- Single player
- Developer
- Atari Games, Atari Games, Vivid Games
- Publisher
- Atari Games, Elite Systems, Mindscape, Elite Systems, Sega Mobile
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- video game
- Genre
- action game
- Country of origin
- United States
- Publisher
- Atari Games
- Followed by
- Paperboy 2
- Developer
- Atari Games
- Platform
- iOS
- Game mode
- single-player video game
- Image
- Cpc464.computer.750pix.jpg
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- operating system
- iOS
- publication date
- 1991-01-30
- distributed by
- App Store
- input device
- touchscreen
- title
- Paperboy
- superfamicom.org URL
- superfamicom.org/famicom/info/paperboy
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