Throwback Thursday: Paperboy

Gaming

Paperboy was first introduced in 1984 by Atari and has most definitely become a cult classic. Your in-game objective is to navigate your cycling paperboy through their weekly paper route, delivering the broadsheet to your customers, and avoiding a host of obstacles, including: cars, dogs, rolling tires, lawnmowers, kids on tricycles, the Grim Reaper, and some weirdo with a knife. There are seven levels — Monday through Sunday — and each day gets progressively harder (duh!). Fail to deliver a paper or accidentally throw a paper through someones window and you risk losing a subscriber. Complete your route and you’re rewarded with some spiffy 8-bit music and a training course that offers you a chance to win bonus points. How were your Paperboy skills? Did you always see the headline “Paperboy Wins Award For Outstanding Paper-Delivery” or were you more of the “Paperboy Calls It Quits” type?

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34 Comments
  • kyle

    Loved this game, but was never good at it. I probably never got passed the third day. I was really young back then, I bet (hope) I would do better now.

  • Derek

    I used to play this game constantly. Got pretty good at it.

  • fujitsujeff

    Excellent game, Dog, potholes, people chasing you down, classic … love Throwback Thursday!!!

  • Floyd

    Great game! Always loved the “runaway” lawnmower that would chase you down the street.

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