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."

I believe I speak for Red Sox Fans everywhere...

[jpellino]

.. when I say to Conor Lastowka,

Go kiss a duck.

RBI Baseball

[MBCook]

I always loved that game. It was very tough (or I was terrible, quite possible). But I just loved the way the little guys looked, all round and fat. It was my favorite baseball game for the NES. In the later versions, they "fixed" the people and they looked better but I always liked the original.

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?

...it gets through Buckner!

[Somatic]

And people said that the popular obsession with the Red Sox would end after they won a world series.

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.

Side-By-Side

[Flame0001]

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.

Buahaha

[19thNervousBreakdown]

From the About page of duffx.com [duffx.com]:

Duffx.com will live on until it reaches the point where Duff can no longer afford to support it.

Anyone want to start a pool on this one?

Anodyne link?

[Anonymous Coward]

From the WSJ article:
Unfortunately, Mr. Lastowka neglected to click an anodyne link at the bottom of the page marked "rules and regulations,"

Did anybody else not understand what an "anodyne link" is? As an adjective, anodyne means "capable of relieving pain".

Can somebody clue me in here as to what that could possibly mean?

dom

Re:can anyone read this?

[1u3hr]

Finger traps don't have a close button, though.

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.

Re:Warning to Red Sox fans...

[hole725]

Even though I am a Red Sox fan, I enjoy dark humor. On a related note, why doesn't this guy remake the 2003 collapse of the Red Sox in the 8th inning of Game 7 of the ALCS? Or better yet, the A. Rod slap in Game 6 of the 2004 ALCS....I'm sure RBI could depict something so hilarious fairly well.