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Game Over, Old Sport
For The Economist online, I wrote about a video game adaptation of The Great Gatsby:
For children of the 1980s, the discovery last month of a seemingly long-lost video-game adaptation of The Great Gatsby evoked a few bygone pleasures. The grey 8-bit cartridge — familiar to classic Nintendo gamers worldwide — was said to have been found at a garage sale for 50 cents. An apparently personal website included a picture of the cartridge (describing it as “an unreleased localization of a Japanese cart called Doki Doki Toshokan: Gatsby no Monogatari”) and a plea: “If anyone has any more information about this please let me know!”
Read the entire article here.
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