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Classic Ads: Paperboy 

Paperboy is a 1984 arcade game by Atari Games. The players take the role of a paperboy who delivers newspapers along a suburban street on his bicycle. This game was innovative for its theme and novel controls.

Paperboy was released in multiple home console and handheld ports from 1986 on. Of those ports, the NES version is particularly notable for being the first NES game developed in the United States. [Wiki]

Classic Ads: Mario Bros. (Nintendo-Pak)

“How do you clean up after Donkey Kong? Turn Donkey Kong Jr. and Popeye back into money machines, too.”

Mario Bros. (マリオブラザーズ) is an arcade game published and developed by Nintendo in 1983. It was developed by Shigeru MiyamotoIn the game, Mario is portrayed as an Italian-American plumber who, along with his brother Luigi, has to defeat creatures that have been coming from the sewers below New York. The gameplay focuses on Mario’s extermination of pests in the sewers by flipping them on their backs and kicking them away. [Wiki]