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PostPosted: Tue Feb 15, 2011 12:21 am    Post subject: The Great Gatsby (NES) Reply with quote

http://greatgatsbygame.com/about.html

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click linky, play game
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 15, 2011 1:54 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

That's gotta be a fucking joke, right? Right??
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 15, 2011 2:06 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

yeah its a flash game not nintendo
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 15, 2011 1:15 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I think it's a real NES game with a Flash emulator, but either way, it's new. The "discovery" story is just for shits and giggles.
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 15, 2011 9:59 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

This is pretty cool. It beats my idea for a Brothers Karamazov NES game that's basically a hack of Super Mario Bros. 2 with nothing but ice stages.
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 15, 2011 10:16 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Smeg wrote:
I think it's a real NES game with a Flash emulator, but either way, it's new. The "discovery" story is just for shits and giggles.

'Fraid not. Although it would have been cool. I was actually going to dig through preloader.swf to see if it loaded an emulator and a ROM, but then I hit the "contact" page which gave a link to the source, which is GPL'd. Looks like it's straight up Flash, definitely a well done NES mimic though.
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 16, 2011 1:59 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I geeked out when I first saw this.

In case you're interested to learn more, I recently interviewed the game's creators:
http://nesplayer.com/interviews/greatgatsby/
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 17, 2011 8:37 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The first dead giveaway that this wasn't an original NES game was the fact that it borrowed a music clip from Ninja Gaiden. Still a fun little game though.
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 17, 2011 10:25 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

First dead giveaway for me was the fact that a number of background elements aren't lined up in an 8x8 tile grid (the pre-level text and message boxes, for example). A lot of people can't seem to get that right.
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 18, 2011 4:14 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Ichiban Crush wrote:
The first dead giveaway that this wasn't an original NES game was the fact that it borrowed a music clip from Ninja Gaiden. Still a fun little game though.


The best tutorial for writing a sound engine for the NES was based off that used by Ninja Gaiden. I would expect to see more homebrew directly ripping off Ninja Gaiden as time goes by.
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 23, 2011 7:22 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

The Great Gatsby is pretty fantastic. It's too bad it's not a real ROM, so we could PowerPak it, or at least emulate it in a television-friendly format.
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PostPosted: Sat Feb 26, 2011 7:04 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

One of the big giveaways for me (aside from certain performance issues on my ancient computer) was the level three boss. That many sprites on the same line all at once? Ha. :P
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 15, 2011 5:55 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The Rumpus did an <a href="http://therumpus.net/2011/03/the-rumpus-interview-with-peter-smith-and-charlie-hoey-the-brains-behind-the-great-gatsby-game/">interesting Interview</a> with the creators of The Great Gatsby game.
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