The Great Gatsby - the NES Game (not actually an NES game)

The Great Gatsby is one of those books where, if you're forced to read it, and forced to dig for symbolism, and told repeatedly that it's the Great American Novel, then you're most likely going to hate it, but if you read it on your own time and draw your own conclusions then you'll probably like it. I've done both and can say I enjoyed reading it on my own far better.

edited 20th Feb '11 10:40:13 AM by MetaFour

Nick, the player character, reminds me of Trilby. Since he used special umbrellas when he was a thief, it wouldn't be a long stretch to think he also had a special hat. And since Chzo transcends time, he might have sent Trilby in the past, where he decided to assume a new identity...

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I'm going to sleep.

I'm one of the guys who had the color symbolism shoved down my throat. Seriously we had to make an annotation for every time one of 12 different colors appeared in the text and make this giant ass chart listing everyone of them, what the context was, and what each color means.

That said I still like the book.

edited 20th Feb '11 4:33:47 PM by Neo_Crimson

Jeez. I mean green = hope I can at least see because it harps on him staring longingly at it all the time. I'm not even sure what else there is though. Generic "HEY YOU GUYS THIS IS THE DEPRESSION" stuff in the poor area maybe.

The Great Gatsby was set before The Great Depression: the point was all those people lived in squalor even when the economy was supposedly doing great.

This reminds me of how I amused myself back when we did it for English by mentally casting the characters from Watchmen as the characters. Rorsharch was Nick Carroway, the Comedian was Tom, Night-Owl was Owl Eyes and I think Ozymandias was Gatsby.

Anyway, Nick with the hat reminded me of Linkara.

Wait, this wasn't actually a NES game? This is quite frankly the most convincing fake NES game I've ever seen, then, as it had the perfect balance of being based on the book but also adding new stuff that seems quintessential of the NES era.

I found the game more amusing than the book.

It's a parody.

Pretty great music though.

My favorite track is Martini Rag and its variations.

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.

pfffff

I'm terrible at the game, which is a shame because I quite liked the book.

This is hideously easy, but amazingly amusing. EAT MY HAT BITCHES. I AM NICK. HERE ME ROAR. ABOUT MY ODDLY HOMOEROTIC OBSESSION WITH GATSBY.

Just finished it without dying, and it turns out you do get something extra for doing so. After the credits, you get an inexplicable little scene with Nick getting off of a train in the snow, and a little cursive THE END up at the top.

Nick was pretty much a 98 pound weakling in the book in terms of personality, so it's hilarious how he suddenly became...

Hat Man! I am the vengeance, I am the night, I am Hat Man!

Also, Hat Man is so powerful he can kill God T. J. Eckleburg's eyes.

edited 21st Feb '11 10:22:04 AM by Scardoll

I kept accidentally pressing attack instead of jump in the train level...

Awesome credits gag there for those who were gamers in the NES era.

How exactly do you attack? I've figured out how to move and jump, but I can't seem to attack any of my enemies and find myself constantly having to DOOOOOOOOODGE!

I died to the glasses lots.

I quit at that boss.

They credited F. Scott Fitzgerald for Story.

edited 10th Apr '12 8:24:56 PM by Bookyangel2438