YMMV / Paperboy

• Alternative Character Interpretation: The default and lightest possible interpretation of the Paperboy is that he delivers newspapers to subscribers and vandalizes non-subscribers for fun or out of spite. A darker interpretation is that it was never about the papers at all and the whole thing is one big protection racket, which his superiors, and the police (who will only charge the Paperboy after he leaves the paper), are a part of.
• Awesome Moment: In the ending of Paperboy 64, the paperboy/papergirl destroys an alien spaceship with a mere newspaper.
• Designated Hero: The Paperboy forces non subscribers to subscribe by delivering papers to them anyway...through their windows.
• Difficulty Spike: Instead of choosing your difficulty in Paperboy 2 for seven days, you start on "Easy Street." Make it through seven days, you then work "Middle Road" as your next route. Do well on "Middle Road" for seven days, your final route is "Hard Way." They note this with the first headline before you start "Middle Road" or "Hard Way" being "Paperboy Promoted".
• Good Bad Bugs: After the obstacle course, in the coin-op version, if you steered along the exact right edge of the finish line, it didn't end, but instead reran the obstacle course. The images were reversed and the point value was crazy. Later versions fixed this bug.
• Unintentional Period Piece: Paperboys are a rather uncommon sight in contemporary times, when newspapers are usually delivered by people in cars and vans - or read online. It doesn't hurt the experience of the gameplay at all, but its premise can come off as rather dated nowadays.

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