Arcade Files · 🕹️ Mid-'80s classics

G33Z3R Arcade Files · 19851990

What was the Paperboy arcade controller?

Paperboy

Released
1985
Made by
Atari Games
How it played
Steer a bike down a suburban street with actual bicycle handlebars, throwing papers at subscribers and through non-subscribers' windows
Legacy
Ported everywhere; the NES version is the one most people played

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Real handlebars on the cabinet, with the throw buttons on the grips. You pedaled down a street of breakdancers, runaway tires and lawnmowers, delivering to the light houses and vandalizing the dark ones.

It was the first arcade game about a job most of the players actually had, and the training course at the end was the reward. The NES port lost the handlebars and kept the frustration.

Sources: Wikipedia — Paperboy (video game)

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