[1] While Paperboy debuted in arcades and was subsequently ported to personal computers and consoles, the sequel was only released for home systems.

There are four specific actions that can be taken somewhere in the middle of each stage that reward the player with a front-page photo on the newspaper afterwards.

[8] Jonathan Davies of Super Play gave the SNES version a 29 percent rating.

[9] Brett Alan Weiss of AllGame gave the SNES version one and a half stars out of five.

gave the NES version 50 out of 100, criticizing its poor camera and controls, as well as the music and gameplay.