{"id":21398,"date":"2013-05-06T23:35:12","date_gmt":"2013-05-07T06:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/?p=21398"},"modified":"2013-05-07T00:33:36","modified_gmt":"2013-05-07T07:33:36","slug":"before-you-see-the-great-gatsby-play-the-great-gatsby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/2013\/05\/06\/before-you-see-the-great-gatsby-play-the-great-gatsby\/","title":{"rendered":"Before you see The Great Gatsby, play The Great Gatsby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"fancybox\" rel=\"21398\" href=\"http:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/owl_eyes.jpg\"<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/owl_eyes.jpg\" alt=\"owl_eyes\" width=\"600\" height=\"480\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-21399\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This weekend, Baz Luhrmann takes a crack at interpreting F. Scott Fitzgerald&#8217;s Great Gatsby.  Leonardo DiCaprio as Gatsby seems to already miss the point, but given how sexy the trailer is, I couldn&#8217;t care less. <\/p>\n<p>While we wait for the movie to open, there&#8217;s always the Great Gatsby videogame.  Like Gatsby himself, you can&#8217;t really be sure where this NES tie-in came from.  One version of its backstory is that a guy named Charlie Hoey made it.  The <a href=\"http:\/\/greatgatsbygame.com\/about.html\">backstory I prefer<\/a>, supported by a magazine ad not nearly tacky enough for videogame ads from the 90s, goes as follows:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I found it at a yard sale. I bought it for 50 cents and went home to try it out. After dusting off my NES for like, 20 minutes I got it working, and jesus. So weird. Apparently it&#8217;s an unreleased localization of a Japanese cart called &#8220;Doki Doki Toshokan: Gatsby no Monogatari&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Whatever its true origins, The Great Gatsby videogame has not been gunned down while floating on an air mattress in its pool.  Instead, it is fully playable <a href=\"http:\/\/greatgatsbygame.com\/\">here<\/a>.  I can&#8217;t get past the Valley of Ashes myself, which is probably for the best where Myrtle Wilson is concerned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Before you see The Great Gatsby, play The Great Gatsby - Quarter to Three<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/2013\/05\/06\/before-you-see-the-great-gatsby-play-the-great-gatsby\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Before you see The Great Gatsby, play The Great Gatsby - 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