It’s almost too much to take: a Great Gatsby game for the original Nintendo. Then again, when one takes a look at some of the stranger NES titles including Wayne’s World, Yo Noid! and Extreme Sports with the Berenstein Bears anything seems possible.
According to the guy who’s hosting the game, he 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’s an unreleased localization of a Japanese cart called “Doki Doki Toshokan: Gatsby no Monogatari”, but I haven’t found anything about that either.
Some think it’s a fake, but I don’t care. It’s just amazing, such a perverse appropriation—one of the greatest pieces of literature reduced to jumping over bookcases and hitting butlers with your boomerang hat. Ahh, the jazz age setting, the oddly place quotes, and drinking martinis to regain health. I love it.
PLAY: The Great Gatsby
Oh, and anyone remember Goonies II? No joke, I had that one. Armed with a yo-yo, Mikey sets out to save Annie, who’s inexplicably a mermaid being held underwater.
PLAY: Goonies II
I assume this is fake, but that doesn’t mean I don’t appreciate the people who put this together.
Someone gets a gold hat for the day!
It is a fake. I mean, the game is real and very charming. But this has been making the rounds for awhile, and the whole song and dance about finding it at a garage sale, etc. is phony. They made the game and promotional art.
Goonies II consumed many an hour of my 10th year on earth. Weird plot line aside, it was fun as hell.
Goonies II was one of my all time favorite Nintendo games!
I own an mp3 somewhere of a band covering the Goonies II in-level soundtrack. Catchy!
YOU GUYS ALREADY BLOGGED ABOUT THIS. Ugh.
I’m cranky this morning.
Talking bout weird NES Games, I remember having around the house (Not mine, I was like 6) a Porno Game for NES. For compliance with what I guess are the rules of commenting am not gonna explain how it went, but it was an Erotic/Super-Porno game.
Let me try to bring it down 2, it was offa guy shooting loads of buildings, and of course, those loads can`t just fall and be lost in the concrete. My first sex ed, NES style.
Anybody else knew/had these plus 18 games for the NES Console.?
Kiala is correct!
Denis: Here’s The Advantage covering the song from Goonies II:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuOFscVpfZ0
And here’s another one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xy0QUaAAXU0
Was Goonies II even beatable? We used to play it all day during the summers when I was a kid, complete with writing down intricate directions/maps, and we’d still end up going through the same effing doors over and over again.