Card Game - Atari's Paperboy

Cards designed for Paperboy card game.

Concept

The purpose of the game is to race to collect pairs of cards which are based on the Atari developed arcade game Paperboy.

Original Game

Ataris Paperboy was developed in 1984 and is a game in which players assume the role of a paperboy delivering newspapers to patrons along hectic suburban streets on their bicycle.The player will attempt to deliver papers to subscribing customers, attempt to vandalize non-subscribers homes and must dodge hazards placed in their way.

When the game begins a player will choose their difficulty level from three different types: Easy Street, Middle Road, and Hard Way. The objective of the game is to deliver all of the papers for an entire week to all of your subscribers without crashing. The game last for seven game timed days Monday - Friday.

Beginning A Game


To begin a game the deck is shuffled an each player receives four cards. The rest of the deck is set aside and a dealer is chosen by the players. The dealer has no extra power within the game however are there to make sure that the game will function correctly. The dealer will place four cards in the center of the circle face up. The dealer is also required to keep track of the amount of rounds that have happened in the current game.


Rules


Each round the dealer will place four cards from the deck face up in the center of the table. Once all of the cards have been placed players can begin to pick up cards, one at a time when the dealer says go. When a player picks up a card they must put down another that they hold in their hand. After ten seconds the cards in the center will be removed from play and placed into the trash deck. The trash deck is a designated pile where cards that have been removed from play will go to. Once a player has four cards of a set (which are outlined below) they can claim that set by showing their cards to the other players at the end of the round. The player will claim this set and place it aside in their own deck. However if another player has a trump card (which is the bike with an explosion behind it) they can use it when a player tries to claim a set. That player will not claim that set and all four cards that make the set as well as the trump card will be placed into the trash pile.

The different types of sets that you can make in the card game paperboy are outlined below. 

1. House, Bike, Paper, Fence.
2. Rock, Fire Hydrant, Dog, Old Man.
3. Window, Car, Tree, Mailbox

Winning Conditions

After the final round of the game each player will count up the number of sets that they were able to complete.The winner of the game is the player who is able to complete the most sets before the final round has been completed.