Obsessed slacker recreates famous World Series game with NES

Cory Doctorow 8:05 am Tue May 2, 2006

An unemployed young man with a serious love of both the Mets/Sox 1986 World Series game six and the classic Nintendo baseball game RBI recreated the crucial overtime inning using a Nintendo emulator, and in so doing got a job as production assistant for Legend Films, specialized in "viral video."

Of all the things to lampoon, Game 6 was an easy target. And by using RBI to replay, pitch for pitch, the fateful 10th inning that ends with a Mookie Wilson grounder slipping through Buckner's legs, Lastowka had his vehicle to do it.

"He was explaining to me how amazing it would be," said his girlfriend – yes, he has one – Lauren Duffy, "and I didn't quite get it."

Lastowka, 24, did. The video that showed someone beating the Nintendo game Super Mario Brothers 3 in 11 minutes transfixed him. The Internet is fertile for the obscure, and viral videos – ones that create instant phenomena – are its ideal medium.

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(Thanks, Greg!)

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