The Great Gatsby for NES

[Kim Kelly]

This is cute!

http://greatgatsbygame.com/

I think the first level is based on Castlevania, and I know the second level is based on Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

[Pidgeon]

Do you get to fight against the giant eyes on the billboard?

[yesno]

I wish there was an actual downloadable ROM, so I could play it on an NES emulator with NES controllers on my TV.  (I got original NES controllers modified for USB from a company called RetroZone (http://www.retrousb.com/)--they also make NES and SNES to USB adapters.)  But it's just a flash game.

[davidgoeschatting]

Yeah, I whooped on the first level last night. Before you get to Gatsby, you encounter somebody, and he gives this long-winded explanation that takes about 6 scrolls before he finishes. He finally lets on that Gatsby's in the garden. Very funny. But looking back at what I just typed suggests otherwise. Really, though, play it.

[Kim Kelly]

Do you get to fight against the giant eyes on the billboard?

Yes you do, it's the first boss!

[Steve of Bloomington]

Is it a Flash game running w/in an NES emulator, or a Flash game designed to look like an NES game? I'm hoping it's the former.

[cavorting with nudists]

My girlfriend reported to me the other night that Baz Luhrman is filming The Great Gatsby in fucking 3D with Leonardo DeCaprio. Christ.  This appears to be true.

When she told me that it called to mind a vague memory of something similar I'd heard recently: "Oh yeah, did you hear--jeez, where did I hear this?--they're doing a remake of Chinatown?" (of all the movies that don't need remaking, went my heavily implied subtext.)

Then I remembered that the remake was to star Jason Siegel, and that I had heard this on The Best Show, and realized that this is almost certainly not true.

But if they do remake Chinatown with Jason Siegel, I think they should do it in 3D.

[Kim Kelly]

Is it a Flash game running w/in an NES emulator, or a Flash game designed to look like an NES game? I'm hoping it's the former.

pretty sure it's the latter!

[Steve of Bloomington]

True. Flash didn't exist at the time of NES. But I meant (but failed to say) an NES emulator written in Flash, using the ROM that would also work on an NES, were it put on a cartridge one could insert into an NES. So, a sort of MAME that can be embedded in a web page. Of course, that also is a horribly and overly complicated approach, but the web is full of those.

[JonFromMaplewood]

My girlfriend reported to me the other night that Baz Luhrman is filming The Great Gatsby in fucking 3D with Leonardo DeCaprio. Christ.  This appears to be true.

When she told me that it called to mind a vague memory of something similar I'd heard recently: "Oh yeah, did you hear--jeez, where did I hear this?--they're doing a remake of Chinatown?" (of all the movies that don't need remaking, went my heavily implied subtext.)

Then I remembered that the remake was to star Jason Siegel, and that I had heard this on The Best Show, and realized that this is almost certainly not true.

But if they do remake Chinatown with Jason Siegel, I think they should do it in 3D.

Too bad 3D wasn't "in" when Gus Van Sant remade Psycho.  Vince Vaughn pawing himself in three dimensions would have been swell.