Sometimes, pining for that green light across the bay, like the title character in The Great Gatsby, isn't enough. Sometimes, you have to fight through dozens of flappers, bootleggers, and mobsters -- armed with nothing but a fedora -- to reach it.

That's the idea behind The Great Gatsby for NES, an 8-bit-style Flash conversion of the legendary F. Scott Fitzgerald novel. You control protagonist Nick Carraway in his search for the book's mysterious businessman (and bootlegger) Jay Gatsby -- you'll use your boomerang-like hat to battle through trains full of hobos, speakeasies full of drunks, and the laser-shooting eyes of Dr. T.J. Eckleburg, collecting coins and booze on your way.

The creators' website presents the game as a long-lost NES cartridge found at a yard sale, but that's just a joke -- the credits are filled with fake Japanese references and badly translated Engrish. (They claim it's a port of a little-known Famicom cart called Doki Doki Toshokan: Gatsby no Monogatari. Don't go Googling for that, though. It's not real.)

It is, however, pretty hilarious to play for a few minutes. If you've ever wanted to give that Gatsby what-for, old sport, here's your chance.

Click through for another image from Gatsby's mocked-up manual.

(Source: Reddit)