Playing The Midas Game will make you rich in real life, and a superhero in the game, or at least that's what Jason's grandfather tells him.

Jason doesn't know how to tell the old man that he's been scammed out of his life savings…until Jason is stunned by the realization that maybe there is something to the game, and it's not a con after all.

In real life, Jason starts as a struggling teacher in debt, while in The Midas Game he begins as a street bum in 1920's New York City, with a gorilla mayor, Houdini, Rocky Marciano, speakeasies, bombshell redheads in tight skirts, and the Graf Zeppelin drifting overhead. With a watch to indicate his progress, Jason works his way up, fighting to earn wealth, loot, gorgeous women, and hero status in both the game and real life.