While Paperboy debuted in arcades and was subsequently ported to personal computers and consoles, the sequel was only released for home systems. It was released in 1991–1992 for Amiga, Amstrad CPC, MS-DOS, Game Boy, Game Gear, Genesis, Nintendo Entertainment System, Super NES, and ZX Spectrum.

The Story Behind Paperboy 2

Paperboy 2 is an action video game, the sequel to the arcade video game Paperboy. It was released in 1991–1992 for Amiga, Amstrad CPC, MS-DOS, Game Boy, Game Gear, Genesis, Nintendo Entertainment System, Super NES, and ZX Spectrum. While Paperboy debuted in arcades and was subsequently ported to personal computers and consoles, the sequel was only released for home systems.

How Paperboy 2 Plays

While Paperboy debuted in arcades and was subsequently ported to personal computers and consoles, the sequel was only released for home systems. The game was much like the original: the player controls a paperboy (or papergirl) who must navigate a series of obstacles, such as tires rolling down a driveway while a car is being repaired, or strange houses like a haunted house, while trying to deliver the morning paper to various customers on a street (though unlike its predecessor, papers had to be delivered to houses on both sides of the street). Others could be coming across a gas station being robbed and hitting the gunman with a paper behind his back, then having the next day's paper headlined with "Paperboy {Papergirl} Foils Armed Robbery" or seeing a runaway baby carriage and stopping it with a paper, and the forthcoming headline being "Girl {Boy} Saves Breakway Baby".

It was released in 1991–1992 for Amiga, Amstrad CPC, MS-DOS, Game Boy, Game Gear, Genesis, Nintendo Entertainment System, Super NES, and ZX Spectrum. Such actions included breaking a window with a paper, where the next day's paper would read "Mysterious Vandalism Baffles Police", showing an angry policeman looking at broken windows. Both heroic stories would show a happy policeman rewarding the paperboy with candy.

Why Players Still Load It Up

Sega Force reviewed the Mega Drive/Genesis version and rated it 55 out of 100. Power Unlimited gave the Game Gear version a score of 78% writing: "One of the most American games ever made, and addictive too. Brett Alan Weiss of AllGame gave the SNES version one and a half stars out of five.

The magazine praised the music and sound effects, but criticized the repetitive gameplay, and stated that the game looked outdated compared to other games available at the time. N-Force gave the NES version a 42 percent rating. Among the four reviewers in Electronic Gaming Monthly, they described the Game Boy version of the game as suffering from the limitations of the size of the Game Boy's screen and the black and white graphics with two reviewers recommending it to fans of the original game.

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