CLASSIC MOMENT
Paperboy
» PLATFORM: ARCADE » RELEASED: 1985 » DEVELOPER: ATARI GAMES
Delivering
newspapers is not a fun job – you have to endure dodgy blocks of flats, dangerous dogs and all for pennies per paper. What’s worse is that it’s just as rough an occupation in videogames. The titular star of Paperboy gets a bike, but does have to deal with radiocontrolled cars, street brawls, bees and even the most dangerous drivers this side of Barnard Castle.
That’s why it’s so much fun to finish your delivery duties and tackle the training course. No more reversing hearses, just plenty of targets to chuck papers at with no penalty for missing, as well as ramps to send you flying over streams. Even though this is a relatively relaxed part of the game, there are plenty of ways to mess up – you can run into a target or the water, or even just run out of time. So when you get to the end of the course to stands full of cheering fans, you know you’ve earned their adulation.