Tuesday, February 22, 2011

The Great Gatsby: The Long-Lost NES Game

Kotaku pointed me at a "lost" gem of the classic Nintendo Entertainment System days: the 8-bit adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby.

Writer Michael McWhertor fills in the details of just how lead developer Charlie Hoey created a spoof of the iconic Great Gatsby cover art done in an 8-bit visual style. It was such a good idea they decided to turn the whole thing into a flash videogame done in the classic NES style, complete with a period advertisement and scans of the "real" insert for the original cartridge.

There's a certain mad genius in the game, a classic platformer in which Nick Carraway hops around Gatsby's mansion and other locations, collecting money and martinis while dodging flappers, Wilfred the butler, and other foes.


You can play the game online at GreatGatsbyGame.com. Can a version of Thomas Wolfe's Look Homeward, Angel, complete with avenging ghost of Ben Gant, be far behind?
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2 comments:

  1. Gary ChapinFebruary 22, 2011 at 8:53 PM

    Still looking for every opportunity to get those Thomas Wolfe references in, I see.

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  2. Thomas L. McDonaldFebruary 23, 2011 at 9:19 AM

    I thought about making it "The Sun Also Rises," since God knows I could sit around shooting Brett all day long.

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