“i made mistakes maybe once or twice / and by once or twice i mean maybe a couple hundred times”

Someone adapted The Great Gatsby as a video game.

Okay, sure. It could make a decent visual novel. The book’s PD now, right?

As a platformer.

’Scuze me? Like, what, you’re Nick running through Gatsby’s mansion evading butlers and flappers?

Yup. You take them out by throwing your fedora.

Mmmmm-kay then. That’s certainly retro.

As is that it was released as a homebrew Nintendo Entertainment System ROM.

Whut

Or you can play it online.

Hold up, I’m still stuck on someone making NES games 35 years too late.

More like 20—it was released in 2011.

Not helping.

BTW, ignore the developer’s story about it being an unreleased localization of a Japanese release Doki Doki Toshokan: Gatsby no Monogatari,* which is completely fake (but hilarious).

Now you’re just messing with me.

No cap. Well, aside from the fedora.


* "Heartbeat Library: Gatsby Story"

---L.

Subject quote from Sorry, Justin Bieber.