The Sinclair C5 appears as the player vehicle in home-computer ports of the 1985 arcade game Paperboy, notably on the Sinclair Spectrum, Commodore 64 and Apple II.
The Sinclair C5 was an early electric three-wheeler produced by Sinclair and is often recalled as a notable flop in British motoring history; the company also made the Sinclair Spectrum home computer.
On the Sinclair Spectrum version, color and rendering limits (two colors per 8×8 pixel block) made the trike look less detailed, but reviewers and players identified it as a C5.
The Commodore 64 and Apple II ports show a more recognisable Sinclair C5 silhouette, including the small three-wheeled profile and safety flag that led observers to link the in-game vehicle to the real-world C5 in Paperboy.
This report is based on information originally published by The Autopian.
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