Forget the upcoming 3D Baz Luhrmann movie adaptation - F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic novel The Great Gatsby has been re-imagined as a NES game, complete with 1980s chiptune music and 8-bit graphics.
It's an absolutely nutty take on the book, with Nick Carraway leaping over waiters, collecting coins and chucking his hat at machine gun-wielding gangsters. It's a great bit of fan-fiction, played out in game form, but there's some mystery as to how it actually came about.
According to the website that hosts the game, it is an actual NES game that was discovered at a yard sale and bought for 50 cents. "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," reads the website. "What’s left of the manual was just rubberbanded to the cartridge. I finally scanned them."
We're not sure if we buy that, but we do know that it's a brilliant adaptation nonetheless. Who needs 3D movies when you have retro 8-bit technology, eh? Play the game here.
It's an absolutely nutty take on the book, with Nick Carraway leaping over waiters, collecting coins and chucking his hat at machine gun-wielding gangsters. It's a great bit of fan-fiction, played out in game form, but there's some mystery as to how it actually came about.
According to the website that hosts the game, it is an actual NES game that was discovered at a yard sale and bought for 50 cents. "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," reads the website. "What’s left of the manual was just rubberbanded to the cartridge. I finally scanned them."
We're not sure if we buy that, but we do know that it's a brilliant adaptation nonetheless. Who needs 3D movies when you have retro 8-bit technology, eh? Play the game here.
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