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Two Games Good for Quick Gaming Sessions

by billmcneal on December 5, 2010
4 out of 5 starsScore: 80/100

Paperboy/Rampage is a compilation game for the Game Boy Advance containing two games: Paperboy, a simulation/adventure game; and Rampage, which is a break-em up platformer.  
In Paperboy you play a paperboy who needs to deliver newspapers to each subscriber as you pass by on your bicycle. Obstacles present themselves such as dogs, fire hydrants, fences, cars, and tricycles. Making contact with any of these things one time will end your life. If you are not accurate enough of giving subscribers their newspapers you will be fired as a paperboy, and it will be game over. It can also be game over if you lose too many lives.  
 
In Rampage you play as 1 of 3 selected characters: a giant "King Kong" inspired gorilla, a Godzilla-like lizard, or a giant werewolf-type wolf. You scale skyscrapers, trying to smash and topple them before you are killed by enemy fire from helicopters, for example. It is game over if you lose too many lives. To advance you need to topple all buildings in a level. 
 
Both games are relatively simple but can be a great thing to play for short periods of time. I would say Paperboy is a much more difficult game, especially because one touch kills you. Younger gamers may think these two games are ancient and boring, but if they can get past the graphics of the era and the difficulty of Paperboy, it might be worth a play or two.

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