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Videogame Remake of 1986's World Series Game 6
Carl Bialik from WSJ writes "Even non-baseball fans must concede that the re-creation of the bottom half of the 10th inning of Game Six of the 1986 World Series, using the original broadcast audio and a replay with Nintendo's RBI Baseball, took enormous dedication. 'Something like the Keith Hernandez at-bat, where he flies out to center, took like 200 attempts,' Creator Conor Lastowka told WSJ.com. Though it wasn't quite as hard as it looks: 'Thanks to the emulator software, each time Mr. Hernandez's at-bat strayed from history's script, Mr. Lastowka was able to replay from the previous at-bat. Using a computer rather than an actual game console like a PlayStation allowed Mr. Lastowka to save his progress along the way. He built his precise Game-Six replica bit by bit -- not in one flawless, improbable take.' Before he made the viral video, Lastowka was jobless; three days after its release, he had a job with a classic-films company."
Using a computer rather than an actual game console like a PlayStation
Hmm? You mean like a Nintendo?
And can I get a supersubmitter account like the WSJ has? I have some regurgitated news with ads, too.
.. when I say to Conor Lastowka,
Go kiss a duck.
"Win treats sysadmins better than users. Mac treats users better than sysadmins. Linux treats everyone like sysadmins."
Baseball for the Game Boy looked almost identical, I always wondered if they were somehow "related" (like it was just published under Nintendo). Anyone know?
Comment forecast: Bits of genius surrounded by a sea of mediocrity.
This is like reliving a horrible, traumatic experience all over again.
Ah yes, the chinese finger trap of flash-based splash intros... the harder you try to get past it, the firmer its grip becomes.
I'm afraid you've most likely "pulled" so hard that you're trapped forever.
I have to admit, it did cool my obsession a little bit. I don't hang on to the idea of a World Series win with the same... what's the word... desperation? I don't do that anymore.
But I think that now, the obsession for most people is still there, it's just changed. It's like people who love the old Commodore 64 games, or old anything. It's a club now, people remembering when-- just like people recreating text based games. I thought I'd be annoyed with it, but it's actually feeling cooler every year, not the other thing.
My script don't crash! She crashes, you crashed her!
A quick google search would have done as much try "rbi game 6"
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Without having seen this World Series, a side-by-side of the actual thing and this recreation would be nice. He did, after all, try his best to mimic the real thing.
Slashdot, the only place where intellectuals can act like idiots... and still sound intellectual.
Who does this guy think he is?
Photography, technology, and my dog Scout - http://mattstratton.com
Here and here.
Ant(Dude) @ Quality Foraged Links (AQFL.net) & The Ant Farm (antfarm.ma.cx / antfarm.home.dhs.org).
And nothing but praise in TFA for his ingenuity. Fine, so why are other people being threatened with enormous fines for doing exactly the same thing? Interesting to see if there is any fallout from that detail.
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Anyone want to start a pool on this one?
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"He walked him, Millar's going to first base, and in comes Dave Roberts to run for Millar as Bill Mueller steps in the batter's box. The Yankees are just three outs away from a trip to the World Series and a sweep of the Red Sox. Roberts definitely has Rivera's attention, he's drawing a lot of looks from the mound. There's a throw over, runner back. Another throw over, runner back. Here's the pitch.
Roberts is taking off...."
"have WAAAYY too much time on their hand"
"I just figured I'd wander into the comments area and tell everybody that these people had too much time on their hands."
"I like to lick butts!" by MobileTatsu-NJG (#32700246) (Score:5, Informative)
huh? The guy got a job out of it, so it was hardly a waste of time.
I was entertained as well, so your argument fails on that count as well. There is more to that inning than the ball through Buckner's legs. I doubt that animation existed in the game anyway.
Ya man, I'm all with you on being judemental about those sports fanatics. I mean it's a good thing you didn't post that on a website full of people who obssess over details about things that would be seen by other people as weird.
In GTA: Vice City?
The heavens do not fall for such a trifle.
Because he wanted to? Why do so many people write different versions of basically the same program on their own time?
Besides, it got him a job, didn't it?
Everything I need to know I learned by killing smart people and eating their brains.
This was the single most painful event in the long Red Sox win drought. I was watching that day, and a simple fielding error by Bill Buckner, his failure to stop a ball hit between his legs, seemed to cause the Red Sox to lose their spirit, and go on to lose that game AND the next one to lose the Series.
It RUINED Buckner's life, although the rest of the team bore responsibility too, for not fighting back. Eventually Buckner had to move from Boston, because of abuse by fans, and then to Canada, to try to escape the taunts he heard every day.
But one day, it became too much for him, and suicide seemed to be his only option. On a street in downtown Toronto, he stepped in front of a bus.
It went through his legs.
The latest Slashdot meme.
More like a monkey-trap: some food inside a hole in a tree trunk. The hole is just small enough for the monkey to slide its hand in, but if it grabs the food it can't pull its fist out. So you can escape if you give up what you were looking for.
Commander Taco, this is Echo 4. We have Soxfan-sign. Repeat, we have Soxfan-sign.
Because there's no such thing as the Old Video Games That Don't Generate Incomes For Our Member Companies Anymore Association Of America to buy off our governmental representatives and sue random citizens.
I would have thought that was obvious...
"A great democracy must be progressive or it will soon cease to be a great democracy." --Theodore Roosevelt
http://www.time.com/time/2003/worldseries/moments/ 4.html
About says it all really.
"Joy is not in things; it is in us." Richard Wagner
Buckner got a bad rap. The game was shot when Stanley threw the wild pitch. The Sox squandered a two-run lead in extra innings at field where they didn't have home-field advantage -- always a good recipe for a loss. Buckner, after all, didn't give up the three hits and two runs that got the Sox in that situation to begin with.
Moreover, most people don't remember how much Buckner did to help the Sox make the postseason in the first place.
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But it's all about rebroadcasting with only the implied oral consent rather than the expressed written... talk about living on the edge.
-M
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