Track Down Gatsby in This 8-Bit Web Game

By Chelsea Stark2013-05-13 20:04:42 UTC

If the world of Baz Lurhmann's The Great Gatsby is too glitzy for you, maybe you'd like to try on something a little more ... pixelated.

Great Gatsby Game transports you back to the land of the Nintendo Entertainment System in look and feel while you remain safely on your web browser. Just like any video game version of a movie, however, it's a little off base in terms of the subject matter.

You play Nick Carraway on his quest to meet Gatsby himself but, instead of partying it up, you'll spend time slapping everyone you come across with your hat. This must be taken from some special edition of F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel we didn't read.

Still, Great Gatsby Game does crib lots from the book, including quotes from Fitzgerald and settings fans of the novel will recognize.

This isn't the first Great Gatsby web game to show up in time with the new movie's release. Slate created its own game in which you thrash against waves endlessly in your little rowboat to reach the green light and the American Dream.

Just like the film, Great Gatsby Game boasts its own unique soundtrack full of 8-bit chiptunes reminiscent of the gaming era.

Check out the video above to learn more about Great Gatsby Game

Image courtesy of Great Gatsby Game

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How Much Would It Cost to Be the Great Gatsby?

By Chris Taylor2013-05-09 22:48:37 UTC

The highly anticipated movie from Moulin Rouge director Baz Luhrmann, The Great Gatsby, opens this weekend. Whether or not Luhrmann has done justice to Fitzgerald's quintessential Jazz age novel — or even bested the 1970s Robert Redford version — is open to debate.

What seems clear is that the filmmaker has remained true to one essential component of Gatsby's character — his sheer opulence. The mansion, the clothes, the decadent parties: much of it a desperate snare for Gatsby's doomed love, Daisy Buchanan.

SEE ALSO: The Great Gatsby in 133 Seconds

But how much would it all cost, in today's dollars, if you wanted to replicate the Gatsby lifestyle? Artist Nickolay Lamm, the same guy responsible for these disturbing climate change GIFs, decided to do the numbers.

The answer, according to Lamm's calculations: a cool $34.3 million. The vast majority of that would pay for a 40-acre mansion in the Hamptons, where real estate prices are most definitely not what they were in 1925.

As for the rest of it — well, Lamm's calculations seem a little conservative, if anything. We doubt how many opulent parties you'd be able to throw every other weekend on a budget of $250,000. That $4.3 million on top of your mansion would probably last you a year at most.

Check out Lamm's list below — and let us know in the comments what other hidden costs need to be added to the Gatsby lifestyle.

Images courtesy of Warner Brothers, Myvouchercodes

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