The Grim Reaper: Funeral homes seem to be his favorite hangout.General Gaming Gamepads: Specialized the original arcade game used an analog controller shaped like bicycle handlebars that was like an odd mix of steering wheel and flight stick, except that tilting the handles adjusted speed instead of elevation.

Lose all your subscribers and you get the same thing, albeit with the headline 'Paperboy Fired!'.

Lose all your lives and the front-page story on the next newspaper is 'Paperboy Calls It Quits!', with accompanying articles bearing similarly-themed headlines ('Accused of negligence, vandalism', 'Daily Sun now hiring').

Paperboy 2 gives you an extra life if you deliver to all your customers on a day AND did not have anyone cancel their subscription earlier (otherwise you get a customer to resubscribe for a perfect day of deliveries).

Flawless Victory: Deliver the papers perfectly to ALL your paying subscribers, and you're entitled to DOUBLE VALUE for each when determining 'Subscriber' bonus in the original game.

Fan Film: Paperboy 3: The Hard Way, a Roaring Rampage of Revenge story presented in the style of a B-movie/grindhouse trailer.

Cars pulling in and out of driveways, kids on tricycles, construction workers, small RC cars, cats that jump out in front of you at the last second.

Everything Trying to Kill You: Or at least trying to make you crash.

Enemies with Death: The Grim Reaper appears as an enemy.

Paperboy 2 takes it up a few notches: Survive a week's deliveries each on 'Easy Street,' 'Middle Road' AND 'Hard Way' and the final Sunday Headline is 'PAPERBOY WINS BIG!' The picture is of the Paperboy receiving the Golden Trophy from the Mayor and his secretary while the Satisfied Policeman is with them and two others.

The smaller bylines add 'New Hero Idolized by Young and Old,' 'Considers Invitation to the White House,' and 'He's Totally Awesome!' What happens? You're treated to a final headline: CONGRATULATIONS PAPERBOY! with the Paperboy holding up a Golden Trophy instead of a newspaper.

Earn Your Happy Ending: To get the Golden Ending, you have to survive all seven days of the work week while still having at least one customer.

Does Not Like Shoes: In the N64 version, there's a young woman who walks around the neighborhood in her bare feet.

( run over by a Hearse) 'Looking for a passenger?'

Deadpan Snarker: The title character when he gets killed.

Many of them are friendly monsters who just want their newspapers.

Dark Is Not Evil: Zigzagged in the Transylvania levels of Paperboy 64.

Convenient Color Change: Speaking of the above, the homeowners sure repaint their houses fast!.

Color-Coded for Your Convenience: Subscribers' homes are bright and colorful, while non-subscribers' homes are ominous and dark.

Charles Atlas Superpower: The kid is insanely strong for his age, being able to throw newspapers hard enough to break windows, damage brick buildings, and knock over gravestones (though the latter may just be decorations).

Cats Are Mean: They're just as bad as the dogs.

Breaking the Fourth Wall: Both the Paperboy and the announcer sometimes make comments aimed directly at the player.

Blah, Blah, Blah: Used as filler text in the newspaper screens.

Bigfoot, Sasquatch and Yeti: Sasquatches are enemies in Paperboy 64.

Bears Are Bad News: Bears appear as enemies in Paperboy 64.

Anti-Frustration Features: It is impossible to lose by losing all your customers on Easy Street-if you run out, another one will just subscribe.

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