Great Gatsby the Nintendo Game?! Yes. Indeed.
Apparently sometime circa to 1990 AD someone came up with and produced a video game for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) based (very VERY loosely) on Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby. When I say loosely, I'm mean TOTALLY loosely.
You've got 8-bit cinematics based on scenes from the novel and Nick Caraway shooting, what I can only imagine is his hat at butlers, flappers, gangsters, drunks, hobos, and apparently the Flying Dutchman. The bosses, make no sense. I'm assuming one of them is a mob boss sending baseball players at you and another is a giant pair of glasses, which I assume is the intense eyes of Dr. Eckleburg.
The closing cinematic is partnered with the last few lines from the novel.
What the hell?! I mean, I love the Great Gatsby... but wow. This was odd.
Try it out for yourself! http://greatgatsbygame.com/
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