THE GOOD:Original concept
Get to do things you wouldn't get away with on a real paperboy route
THE BAD:
Can get slightly irritating
SUMMARY:
You wouldn't have thought that a game about a job that 14 year olds do to have a bit of extra pocket money would make a successful video game, but it did. I originally played the Game Gear version but this was just as good.
Basic concept is you ride your bike along the route and throw your papers to the marked houses that are expecting a delivery. That might sound highly boring but it's surprisingly fun. You only have a limited number of papers although you can pick up more en route. Along the way you have to avoid falling off your bike or being knocked off by things such as dogs, other bikes, skateboarders, cars, pedestrians and tyres. You can only fall off so many times before you lose the game. If you lose then you get a rather humorous newspaper article on screen about how bad a...
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