Paperboy (video game)

Paperboy (English: newspaper boy) is a computer game, which first appeared in 1984 in the form of a slot machine. Paperboy was one of the first computer games with an isometric perspective. The character moved it diagonally in the game, instead of the conventional links-rechts/oben-unten movements. The Paperboy slot machine was also equipped with a bicycle handlebar instead of a joystick and was the first arcade device that simulated a bicycle.

Game action

The game is about the daily life of an American newspaper boys. The player must navigate through a place and distribute newspapers the character on a BMX bike in a race against time. He is prevented from passers-by and beißwütigen dogs from throwing as many newspapers in the shortest possible time in mailboxes only the subscribers that are located on the left side of the road. Get a customer no newspaper or even thrown a disc, there is a bonus deduction and it comes to the subscription is canceled. Get all the customers delivered the newspaper, this results in a Perfect Delivery.

At the end of the street is a hilly bonus track with water traps. During a fall on the bonus track you get deducted any of the two extra lives. The first level starts with Monday. Each week increased the number of obstacles. The seventh and final level is therefore the Sunday. If the player manages through the seven days of the week, he will receive a reward a headline.

Ports

The game was broadcast over the years on some other systems, while the artwork was for technical reasons clearly grobpixeliger than the arcade version. With the exception of games for the Game Boy ( Mindscape ) and Genesis ( Tengen ) all published by Atari games were produced. The majority of the ports took Elite before system, which were also publisher of the version for the C64.

1991 appeared Paperboy 2 for several popular home computers, except in particular the C64 and Sega Master System.