CAN YOU CUT IT?

Can you handle the excitement of the hottest arcade megahits?

Then cut out these name plates, mount 'em on your monitors and boot up Gauntlet and Paperboy from Mindscape. That's all you need for absolutely outrageous arcade action, right at home.

You'll get real arcade graphics. Real arcade feel. Real arcade excitement. After all, these are based on the real arcade classics. So get set, get psyched for the arcade to hit home. Just pick up new Gauntlet and Paperboy. That is, if you think you can cut it.

Mindscape takes the arcade home.

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Advertisement in COMPUTE!, March 1988

The arcade classic comes home.

Hop on your bike for a free-wheeling ride up the avenues of not-so-typical suburbia. There are papers to be delivered, robbers to be foiled, and fame and fortune to be won as you brave the mean streets. Avoid traffic, tires, motorcycles, tricycles, gratings, curbs, dogs, dangers, and exhaustion as you deliver to your customers – and as you do as much damage as you can to your obstacles. All the excitement you loved in the arcades.

Featuring: - All the obstacles, bonuses, bad guys, and hazards of the coin-op version.

• Superb animation and sound.

• Unending thrills, spills, challenge, and excitement.

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Back Cover - DOS

Wake Up The Neighborhood!

Jump aboard your heavy duty bike for a ride through the burbs. Avoid hazards like motorcycles, brawling dudes, mad dogs and crazed grannies.

Bust the windows of those non-customers, deliver to your subscribers and earn big points by mastering the radical training course. Keep it up for a week and you'll get to keep your job!

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Back Cover - Lynx

THE ARCADE CLASSIC COMES HOME.

Hop on your bike for a free-wheeling ride up the avenues of not-so-typical suburbia. There are papers to be delivered, robbers to be foiled, and fame and fortune to be won as you brave the mean streets. Avoid motorcycles, tricycles, traffic, tires, gratings, curbs, dogs, skateboarders, breakdancers, bad guys, and other hazards as you deliver to your customers. Earn bonus points by hitting targets along the obstacle course at the end of your route. With superb animation and sound effects, Paperboy brings home all the thrills, spills, challenge, and excitement you loved in the arcades.

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Back of Box - NES (US)

GAME FEATURES

• Sold over 100,000 worldwide.
• Held a Gallup chart position for over a year.
• Arcade action at its best from ATARI.
• One of the biggest selling games of all time.

® Atari Games Corporation

'Officially Licenced Arcade Game'

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Back of Cassette Case - C64-CPC-SPECTRUM (UK)

PAPERBOY™

The arcade classic comes home.

Hop on your bike for a free-wheeling ride up the avenues of not-so-typical suburbia. There are papers to be delivered, robbers to be foiled, and fame and fortune to be won as you brave the mean streets. Avoid traffic, tires, motorcycles, tricycles, gratings, curbs, dogs, dangers, and exhaustion as you deliver to your customers – and as you do as much damage as you can to your obstacles. All the excitement you loved in the arcades.

Featuring:* All the obstacles, bonuses, bad guys, and hazards of the coin-op version. * Superb animation and sound. * Unending thrills, spills, challenge, and excitement.

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Back of Box - C64 (US)

PAPERBOY. The arcade hit that really delivers!

Ride your trusty bike - loaded with tightly rolled newspapers - through a comical, ever-changing neighborhood. Score big points by tossing papers into subscribers' mailboxes and porches. Don't miss, 'cause you'll lose a customer for every bad throw. Now, for the real fun: score even bigger points by bombarding nonsubscribers' homes, taking out their windows, lamps and statues! But watch out for bad drivers, skate-boarders, remote control cars and lots of other obstacles. They can ruin your day real fast. After work, take on the Training Course, a BMX-style bonus round that'll test your aim and riding skills to the max!

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Back of Cartridge Case - Genesis (US)

PAPERBOY™

Paperboy, eines der rastantesten Spiele aller Zeiten ist beweglicher denn je.

Spring auf Dein Fahrrad und rase durch die unüblichen Vororte der Stadt. Während Deiner schnellen Fahrt gibt es kein Hindernis für Dich! Du überwindest alle Gefahren wie Motorräder, Dreiräder, Staus, Zäune, Bord-steine, beißende Hunde, Skateboarder, Break-dancer, hysterische Omas und viel mehr!

Nach Deiner täglichen Route widmest Du Dich Deinem Training um noch mehr Gewandheit zu erzielen. Du schlägst Fenster ein, schweißt Mülltonnen um und fährst durch Blumen-beete.

Dieser tolle und rasende Spaß ist für Dich bereit!

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Back of Box - Game Boy (Germany)

PAPERBOY

Get ready for the ride of your life as the new PAPERBOY for the neighborhood. What a neighborhood! Watch out for the runaway lawnmowers, a boom box or two, a guy on a unicycle and, of course, break dancers.

Every day you make your rounds, delivering papers to your subscribers. Throw the paper at the wrong time, and you might break a window. Throw it at just the right time, it lands in the mail box and you get extra points. At the end of the day you gain or lose subscribers, depending on your performance.

Crash too often and you will be forced into an early retirement.

The more experience you get ,the tougher the obstacles. Watch out for that construction worker! Pedal faster to get away from that dog! Look out for that car! Oh well...just another day in the neighborhood.

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Back of Case - Sega Master System (US)