Game:

Paperboy 2 (1991)

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Review

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You are the Paperboy and must deliver the newspaper to your customers on a daily basis. Being set in the USA, this entails riding your bike down a different street every day, throwing newspapers into the mailboxes or onto the doorsteps of your subscribers. If a person doesn't get his paper, he'll cancel his subscription - and no subscriptions means no job!

Papers can be handy for other things though.... There are various obstacles in your way which will try to knock you off you bike. A well-aimed newspaper makes a handy weapon against these hazards! Also, there's no harm in encouraging people who don't subscribe to your paper to think again about their decision - whack a few papers through their windows for extra points! And while you're at it, why not aim a few at their bird tables and dustbins? Or ride your bike over their flower beds? Mind you don't run out of papers though! You can only carry ten at a time, but supplies are left at various points along your route for you to pick up.

You are given a number of lives to complete as many days as possible. You lose a life if anything knocks you off your bike, but the game will end immediately should you run out of subscribers! Get to the end of the day and you can complete an assault course for extra points!

Not many know that there was a sequel to Paperboy, and that might be because it is from 1992 and one of the last commercial games for the ZX Spectrum. It is made by the famous ZX Spectrum team; David Perry and Nick Bruty and this became their last title for the Speccy.

The objective is the same as in the first game, so basically the main difference between the games is how they are made, and this one is in full color while the first one had monochrome graphics.

This sequel is running at a higher speed than the first game, it is a bit rough at the edges and some places you notice the attribute blocks more than other places, but actually it is quite a good and acceptable attempt for making a full color isometric game, which might be considered as one of the most difficult things to do on a Spectrum. You have to throw the newspapers very precise, the collision detection for this could have been better, but besides that a pretty cool game.

The game was published by Mindscape International Inc in 1992.

Rating = 84%

Download here: https://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0003606