Downton Abbey: The Super Nintendo Version

Grab your 16-bit D-pad controller and affect your best British accent -- it's time to play Downton Abbey for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System!

Actually, it's just a pastiche of what such a game would look like, courtesy of Bill Kiley at Santa Cruz production company Left Coast Digital. But we have to admit, if Downton had hit our screens in the early 1990s, this is exactly the cartridge-based spin-off we'd expect to see.

No complex role-playing exploring the upstairs-downstairs class system of a fading British stately home here -- just classically inane quests, such as finding Lord Grantham's lost cigars on the 2-D estate, or pressing the L and R keys as fast as possible in…
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