The NES Now Has A Jane Austen Game
Of all the writers that have ever lived, Jane Austen is arguably the most successful; there are few other people I can think of who have been dead for over 200 years yet retain such a rabid fanbase to this day. Of course since her novels are so old, they’re firmly in the public domain, which allows things like Pride & Prejudice & Zombies to happen, or a 90s movie that turns Emma Woodhouse into a Beverly Hills valley girl, or, in the case we’re discussing today, an 8-bit platformer starring Austen herself. Presenting Jane Austen’s 8-Bit Adventure, created for the NES by Matthew Justice yet playable on modern platforms too. The setup is that Jane was simply walking around Victorian England one day when she suddenly discovered someone ripped up her books and the villains from her novels escaped. Now Jane has to hop, bop and slay them all in real life, using a particularly lethal pen quill as a weapon. If you assumed Jane wasn’t a violent person,