Feb 22, 2011

How The Great Gatsby Became A Long Lost NES Game



(Kotako) Great Gatsby—the "NES" version, that is—started its strange life as a single screen shot, a pixelated recreation of Francis Cugat's iconic cover art for F. Scott Fitzgerald's great American novel.
"It was just too funny," says The Great Gatsby NES lead developer Charlie Hoey of that artwork "all NESified and blocky with PRESS START on top of it."
"I started thinking about turning it into a full game." So that's just what he did. Continued

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