Paperboy - for NES

Paperboy brings the Atari arcade favorite home to the Nintendo Entertainment System in this 1988 version developed by Eastridge Technology and published by Mindscape. You ride a bicycle up the avenues of a not so typical suburbia with a bag of papers and a route full of subscribers who expect to find the news waiting on the porch. Paperboy was one of the first games built around an everyday job, and that small, funny idea is still what makes it memorable.

Each day you work your way up the street, throwing papers left and right, aiming for porches and mailboxes and putting a window through now and then at the houses that did not subscribe. The street is anything but quiet: motorcycles, tricycles, traffic, tires, gratings, curbs, dogs, skateboarders, breakdancers, robbers and plenty of other hazards all want you off the bike. Finish the route and the obstacle course follows, a bonus run of ramps and targets worth real points. Paperboy supports two players taking turns, and keeping every customer happy through a full week is the real goal.

Players still love Paperboy because it is instantly readable and endlessly embarrassing: one wobble and a whole street cancels on you. The animation and sound effects carry the arcade's charm, and a run through the week is a perfect few minutes. For collectors, Paperboy is a cornerstone Nintendo Entertainment System title and one of the easiest games to hand to someone who has never touched the console, since nobody needs the premise explained to them.

• Genre: Action
• Players: 1-2
• Region: NTSC
• Release Year: 1988
• Developer: Eastridge Technology

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