Delivering papers as a digital paperboy

Paperboy was an unusual arcade hit by Atari later published by Mindscape for DOS. Paperboy gameplay is peculiar: you control a boy on a bicycle and you have to deliver newspapers to a number of houses while avoiding dogs, cars and other obstacles. A sequel called Paperboy 2 was released in 1991 for home computers and console.

Paperboy was selected for All-TIME 100 video games TIME.com.

• Genres: action
• System: DOS
• Released In: 1988
• Publisher: Mindscape
• Developer: Atari
• Designers: John Salwitz, Dave Ralston, Russel Dawe, Carl Bedard
• Keywords: urban setting, coin-op conversion, arcade classic, modern world, isometric
• Input: keyboard
• Distributed on: 5,25 floppy disk
• Also published for: Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Apple II, Atari ST, BBC Micro, C16, C64, Game Boy, Game Gear, Genesis, Lynx, NES, SEGA Master System, Xbox 360, ZX Spectrum