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A
very popular arcade from Atari in 1986, converted fairly well
to the C64 by Elite around the same time.
Not
a particulary fantastic game, so imagine the shock when finding
out that a sequel was being made, in 1991!... Around 4/5 years
after the original was released.
Mindscape
were this time handling the game, which never existed as a arcade.
Paperboy
2 this time featured the chance of controlling a "Papergirl"
too, and riding on both sides of the road at different perspectives.
Slightly more ambitous and sadly moving too far away from the
simplicity of the original.
The
game surfaced on all platforms, including the Spectrum and Amstrad,
though as with Mindscape's other game "Captain Planet",
Paperboy 2 was never seen on the Commodore 64. No review, no preview,
just a blip on Commodore Format's time scanner.
It
was advertised throughout issues for a while, but this sadly was
it. No-one has ever seen how the game looks on the C64.
It's
also not known why the game was never released, nor if its completed
or not. Neither is it known who was working on the conversion...
We need to find out more, but where do we start... Does anyone
know anything?
A
promising title which never really eventuated to much...
Frank.
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