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Paperboy is an action game developed and published by Atari Games [7] and released as an arcade video game in 1985. [1] The player takes the role of a paperboy who delivers a fictional newspaper called The Daily Sun along a street on his bicycle. [8] The arcade version of the game featured bike handlebars as the controller. [9]
The Paperboy is a 2012 American crime drama thriller film co-written and directed by Lee Daniels and based on Pete Dexter's 1995 novel of the same name. The novel was inspired by a true story. It follows Miami reporter Ward Jansen who returns to his hometown in Florida to investigate a murder case involving a death row inmate.
A paperboy is someone – often an older child or adolescent – who distributes printed newspapers to homes or offices on a regular route, usually by bicycle or automobile. In Western nations during the heyday of print newspapers during the early 20th century, this was often a young person's first job, perhaps undertaken before or after school.
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 . [ 1 ]
Mitchell Charles Johnson [1] (born October 2, 1969) better known by his stage name Paperboy, is an American rapper. He is best known for his single " Ditty " which charted at #10 on the Hot 100 in 1993.
Johnny McFarley, a 12-year-old paperboy, arrives at elderly Mrs. Thorpe's home and asphyxiates her with a plastic bag. When her daughter Melissa returns home from teaching seventh grade English, she receives a phone call telling her her mother has died. Melissa and her daughter, Cammie, travel back to Melissa's hometown for the funeral.
The author Vince Vawter was inspired to write the novel Paperboy because it is an autobiographical novel, almost a memoir, about his lifelong speech impediment. Although a struggle during his childhood, as an adult, Vawter considers his speech impediment to be a welcomed challenge and source of inner strength.
"Ditty" is a song by American rapper Paperboy from his debut studio album The Nine Yards. It is the opening track on the album and was issued as the album's lead single.The song is primarily based around a sample of Zapp's "Doo Wa Ditty (Blow That Thing)", but it also contains a sample of James Brown's "Funky President (People It's Bad)".