The Great Gatsby Game

WARNING: CONTENT OF THIS POST HIGHLY ADDICTIVE. 

Don't worry though, it's the sort of addiction your year 9 English teacher will be proud of you for having! We're talking about The Great Gatsby game where the classic American novel has been transformed into a 8-bit 1908s style video game. What's not to love here? For the Fitzergald fan there are cute details like the drunks and flappers of Gatsby's infamous parties. For everyone else, i.e. the chronically bored, it's a highly addictive platform game that beats a spreadsheet at work any day. 

Despite the website declaring a San Fransisco developer bought the game at a yard sale for 50 cents and discovered it was unreleased, Charlie Hoey actually spent a year creating the game with his friend Pete Smith. 

They dabbled with the thought of creating a full literary classics arcade.  Instead, they put the source code online for any other developer wanting to have a go at creating another classic NES game.


So, either play this game (and tell me what happens after the garden level that I can't get past) or make another game yourself if you're handy with that sort of thing. 


http://greatgatsbygame.com/