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Did You Know There Are Multiple Video Games Based On The Great Gatsby?

Everyone’s talking about Gatsby: the newest cinematic take on Fitzgerald’s classic drama made big bucks last weekend at the box office despite disappointing reviews

So this seems like a good week to remind you that there have been a couple of different Great Gatsby video games over the past few years.

In 2010, there was a hidden object game. It was disappointing. Some bloggers gave up midway through.

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About a year later, something interesting happened: a couple of designers made a flash game based on Gatsby that was kind of amazing. Mixing the style of the Roaring 20s with the gameplay and aesthetics of an NES classic, The Great Gatsbyā€˜s video game was actually quite fun.

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ā€œThere’s little bits and pieces of a whole lot of games we love, but we never really wanted to make it derivative of any single game,ā€ designer Charlie Hoey told Kotaku back in 2011. ā€œThe goal was more to make something that really could have been a real one back in the day.ā€

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You can play that flash gameright here

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