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Game Info

Publisher: Midway

Developer: Digital Eclipse

Genre(s): Action

Players: 2

ESRB Rating: E (Everyone)

Release Date: February 14, 2007

Summary

[Xbox Live Arcade] Can you deliver? Keep your subscribers happy by tossing newspapers on their doorsteps with perfect accuracy. Pedal fast and avoid obstacles to make the headlines and bring home the bacon. Challenge: Stay on the road and keep your subscribers happy in Easy Street, Middle Road, and Hard Way difficulties. Earn 12 different achievements to add to your gamerscore, as well. Multiplayer: Play with a friend online or off with co-op multiplayer modes in both split screen and Xbox Live modes. Xbox Live: Keep track of your victories with leaderboards updated weekly and for all time! [Microsoft]

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What The Critics Said

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Team Xbox

Aside from some iffy hit detection (2 pixels to the right of the front door won’t trigger a delivered paper at times), an RC car that’s relentless in its pursuit of your carrier (it’s pesky to say the least), and the omission of Paperboy’s Ditty from the soundtrack (j/k), Paperboy "delivers" as advertised in the classifieds.

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Official Xbox Magazine UK

Its difficulty will put off those who want an easy ride, but for the hardcore, those who want something different from their games, it's the Holy Grail on wheels. [Apr 2007, p.96]

X360 Magazine UK

The single-player mode is fantastic and more fun than licking honey off Scrubs' Sarah Chalke. [Issue 18, p.116]

Eurogamer

The game quickly gets repetitive, and becomes one of those retro games you'll dip into now and then rather than have extensive score-beating sessions on like the best games on Xbox Live Arcade.

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Games Radar (in-house)

For around five bucks, Paperboy is a worthwhile purchase. It’s still loads of fun. But like the newspapers our paperboy is tasked with delivering, the game has lost some of its appeal.

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Official Xbox Magazine

It disappoints only in Live multiplayer, where an updating score(gee, thanks...)is all players see of each other, and one person's demise ends both games. [Apr 2007, p.90]

360 Gamer Magazine UK

Even now it is still an endearing and addictive game. [Issue #23, p.72]

Planet Xbox 360

As with most retro titles offered on the Arcade, the nostalgia will pull you in for a game or two. Paperboy succeeds in holding your attention longer than most with more than the all-too-familiar graphics and sound, earning your respect with challenging achievements and gameplay.

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GameSpot

If you ever cared about the arcade version of Paperboy, you'll get some nostalgic excitement from this emulation of the original.

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IGN

Paperboy just doesn't have the substance to keep anybody but the leaderboard obsessive or Paperboy nuts interested for very long.

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Game Chronicles

I thought this game was really fun in the arcade. I didn’t realize how much the controller was part of the experience back then.

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AceGamez

When you think of retro gaming, this is a title that comes to mind for a lot of people - and apparently with good reason.

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ZTGameDomain

The single-player is too frustrating to be fun on the harder levels and the multi-player feels tacked-on and useless. While the price is certainly right the game still doesn’t manage to hold water in the long run and will more than likely be just another reason to achieve 200 gamer points.

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What Our Users Said

The average user rating for this game is 4.3 (out of 10) based on 3 User Votes

Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Andyman gave it a3:
Without the unique bicycle handlebar controller of the arcade game, Paperboy is lackluster in every possible way. Save your money.

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