Downton Abbey reimagined as an SNES game
YouTube user Bill Kiley has reimagined popular TV series Downton Abbey as a 16-bit Super Nintendo game in the brilliant fake trailer below.While sadly not playable, Kiley should be commended for not only composing a totally catchy chiptunes cover of the show’s theme, but finding a way to convert the drudgery of service in a posh English estate into tried-and-true game mechanics in a way that totally fits the fiction.As a new footman, you’ll have to collect missing cigars for a dinner party, help Mary Crawley spy on Mrs. Patmore – whom she suspects is trying to poison Matthew with her cooking – and aid Anna in fluffing pillows so you can read a letter from her jailed husband. Even setting a table recalls the climax of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade where you have to deduce which of several spoons is meant for bouillon. All the while the comforting, self-assured Mr. Carson saves your progress, as every good butler should.Read more…
