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Hop onto your BMX bike and take on the toughest area in town with this 8-bit incarnation of the diagonally-scrolling "throw-'em-up" (sic) arcade smash of a couple of years back.

You begin your round on Monday morning, at the bottom of the street. Your task is relatively simple in theory: make sure that all of your subscribers receive their copy of the Daily Sun. ahhh, if only life were that easy! For, along the street, are a number of obstacles which will, intentionally or otherwise, hinder your progress. Obstacles include yappy Jack Russell terriers (you shouldn't have hit it with that paper the other week!), kids on skateboards, burglars, workmen and oncoming traffic to name but a fraction of your worries.

Points are scored in a number of ways; should you hit a subscriber's door with a newspaper, you register a delivery - however, lobbing The Daily Sun into the letterbox gives a bonus. Extra points are also awarded for smashing the windows of non-subscribers and knocking over hazards.

Should you reach the end of the street, you are invited to try your hand at completing a lap of the local BMX track. Points are scored by hitting various targets with newspapers, and a bonus is given should you finish the course before time runs out.

Paperboy received a non-too-praising review first time round, but at this budget price it's worth a look. A reasonable representation of the arcade machine is offered, albeit with a few non-critical bugs. It's a shame that there isn't a variable difficulty option, as the first few goes are a touch on the hard side, but other than that this is an above average title with not that many grey hairs. Buy this if you enjoyed the coin-op.