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{{Game
{{Game
|completion=0
|completion=0
|image=Paperboy flyer.jpg
|image=Paperboy arcade.jpg
|title=Paperboy
|title=Paperboy
|developer=[[Atari Games]]
|developer=[[Atari]]
|publisher=[[Atari Games]]
|publisher=[[Atari]], [[Elite Systems]], [[Mindscape]]
|year=1984
|year=1984
|systems={{syslist|cade|bbc|acorn|electron|c64|c16|a2|amiga|nes|cpc|zx|msdos|gb|gbc|gen|gg|lynx|cpc|sms|atarist|apple2gs|360|mobile|ios}}
|systems={{syslist|cade|bbc|acorn|electron|c64|c16|a2|amiga|nes|cpc|zx|msdos|gb|gbc|gen|gg|lynx|cpc|sms|atarist|apple2gs|360}}
|ratings={{ESRB|E}}
|ratings={{ESRB|E}}
|designer=Carl Bedard, Russel Dawe, Dave Ralston, John Salwitz
|designer=Carl Bedard, Russel Dawe, Dave Ralston, John Salwitz
|genre=[[Action]]
|genre=[[Action]]
|players=1-2
|modes=[[Single player]], [[multiplayer]]
|modes=[[Single player]], [[Multiplayer]]
|followed by=[[Paperboy 2]]
|series=Paperboy
}}
}}
{{game disambig|the original [[1984]] [[arcade]] game|the [[1999]] [[Nintendo 64]] game|[[Paperboy (1999)]]}}
{{game disambig||the [[Nintendo 64]] and [[PlayStation]] game|[[Paperboy (2000)]]}}
{{marquee|Paperboy marquee.jpg}}
'''Paperboy''' is a [[1984]] [[:Category:Arcade|arcade game]] by [[:Category:Atari|Atari Games]]. The players take the role of a paperboy who delivers newspapers along a suburban street on his bicycle. This game was innovative for its theme and novel controls.
'''Paperboy''' is an arcade game that was released by [[Atari Games]] in [[1984]]; it was the first game to run on their then-new System 2 hardware (a Digital Equipment Corporation T11 microprocessor running at 10 MHz, with a Motorola M6502 sub-microprocessor running at 1.789772 MHz). The player must use a handlebar to direct the eponymous "Paperboy" through one of three selectable routes ("Easy Street", "Middle Road" or "Hard Way") on his bicycle, with a single button that makes him throw his newspapers into the mailboxes of his customers' houses (or onto their doormats), as well as break the windows and target objects of non-customers' houses for extra points - but he can only carry a maximum of ten newspapers at a time and must ride over stacks of additional ones to collect them when he is running low. If Paperboy accidentally breaks a window of one of his customers' houses they will cancel their subscription the following day (the game takes place over a course of a week and on its last day, Sunday, the papers are larger and travel slower when thrown); if all Paperboy's remaining customers should cancel their subscriptions as results of him accidentally breaking their windows, the game shall immediately end (regardless of how many lives he has remaining). At the end of each day, the player also has to direct Paperboy through the "Paperboy Training Grounds", which is an obstacle course featuring various targets for Paperboy to throw newspapers at as well as ramps for him to jump over - and if the timer should run out before Paperboy manages to reach the end of the course he will ''not'' lose a life. Furthermore, at the end of any day on which Paperboy managed to deliver a newspaper for all his remaining customers, a non-customer will resubscribe.


<gallery>
<gallery>
File:Paperboy title screen.png|The game's title screen.
File:Paperboy nescover.jpg|NES cover art.
File:Paperboy arcade.jpg|Upright arcade cabinet.
File:Paperboy c64cover.jpg|Commodore 64 cover art.
File:Paperboy c64cover.jpg|The C64 version's cover.
File:Paperboy gbccover.jpg|Game Boy Color cover art.
File:Paperboy nescover.jpg|The NES version's cover.
File:Paperboy mobilecover.jpg|Mobile phone cover art.
File:Paperboy gbccover.jpg|The GBC version's cover
File:Paperboy pscover.jpg|PlayStation cover art.
File:Paperboy mobilecover.jpg|The mobile version cover
</gallery>
</gallery>


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{{Paperboy}}
[[Category:Atari]]
 
[[Category:Elite Systems]]
[[Category:Atari Games]]
[[Category:Mindscape]]
[[Category:Action]]
[[Category:Action]]
[[Category:Single player]]
[[Category:Single player]]
[[Category:Multiplayer]]
[[Category:Multiplayer]]
[[Category:MAME]]
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