If you’re an enthusiastic retro-gamer, you might know that Nintendo made a looooot of games in the late-80’s and mid-nineties that would be considered very weird. Very very weird.
Fortunately for us, programmers and ROM enthusiasts have preserved those experiences – so if you want to relive General Custer raping indians tied to a tree, you can HAVE that experience. If you want to put Mario through archaic tubes or play World Cup soccer with only 11 teams and a 4-digit code system. Or you can play The Great Gatsby game and throw your hat at flappers? What? Yes. It’s true. It’s a real thing. Apparently Japan made a game in the early 1990’s BASED off the book by F. Scott Fitzgerald, where you get to run around as Nick Carraway and power up your hat, which is sure what the author thought his work would be turned into. Imagine if he knew. Blissfully gazing out a window, knowing that the great American novel would one day be stripped of all literary influences and given a bizarre mechanics system of boomerang hats.
I’m still skeptical that the thing is actually real, but there have been scans made of the instruction manual and now a playable version has been leaked to the internet that you can find here.
It’s pretty awesome.
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