Have you ever wondered what The Great Gatsby would be like if it was an 8-bit video game released for the NES? Those who have read the F. Scott Fitzgerald novel know the contents of its pages are begging to be made into a video game. Now you can play as Nick Carraway, armed with a boomerang fedora in your very own side-scrolling Great Gatsby game. Nick's mission is to rid the word of butlers, flappers and crabs.
The folks at Great Gatsby Game have "found" this game at a garage sale.
"If anybody has more info about this please let me know ! As it is, I really don't know much about this game. I found it at a yard sale. I bought it for 50 cents and went home to try it out. After dusting off my NES for like, 20 minutes I got it working, and jesus. So weird. Apparently it's an unreleased localization of a Japanese cart called "Doki Doki Toshokan: Gatsby no Monogatari", but I haven't found anything about that either. What's left of the manual was just rubberbanded to the cartridge. I finally scanned them"
Fun fact: Shigeru Miyamoto named Princess Zelda after F. Scott Fitzgerald's wife, Zelda Fitzgerald.
Source: GreatGatsbyGame
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turboswag
This is quite odd timing. We're reading this in my English class now. It's not too bad now.
Crankr
GAAAH!!! GOD DAMNIT! I HATED reading that book in highschool, it is soooooo meaningless. There's some kind of abominal plot, and it tries REALLY hard to make the most simple moral look as complex as a 16x16 rubix cube. Screw that book with every peice of literary experience I have in my body!
Griffolian
More on the lines of films, what about a Driving Miss Daisy video game? I'd play that game.
justinlars
broken link =\
ChaosRain19
This is excellent... in an absurd way. I'd love to play as Daisy and take out Myrtle, GTA style. So we beat on.
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