Papers and Property Damage: Celebrating Paperboy Arcade
Paperboy. The occupation is menial at best, the pay is negligible and the work is barely worth it in most cases. So on paper, pardon the pun, the idea of making an entire game out of this job probably sounds lame. Luckily, someone at Atari Games didn’t agree. In 1985, a cabinet hit arcades where players would take a paperboy up suburban streets littered with obstacles and pitfalls as they attempted to fill all the streets orders and keep the customers happy. Being a paperboy may not be fun, but from April 1985 and beyond, more than a few paper routes were probably being used to feed quarters into the wonderful machine that was the Paperboy arcade.