Earlier this week, the Internet was treated with a surprise
8-bit adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's widely lauded novel, The Great Gatsby. The game was created by Charlie Hoey and Pete Smith over the course of a year, and spans four levels in which players vanquish butlers, promiscuous flappers, gangsters and ghosts with Nick Carraway's trusty boomerang hat. Needless to say, the game is a rather loose interpretation of the book, with questionable depictions of the novel's events. However, that's largely the point -- the game acts as a parody of video game adaptations from the NES and SNES eras, adaptations which rarely accurately portray their source material.
