I gotta say, it never would have occured to me.

Colin Burn might not like to look at this, but a guy has recreated the bottom of the tenth of Game 6 of the 1986 World Series using RBI baseball, and the results are weirdly compelling for baseball geeks. He spliced Vin Scully's broadcast up to the video-game images, and thereby demonstrates just how good an announcer Vin Scully is. I know how the game turned out-hell, it was twenty years ago-I have no rooting interest in either the Mets or the Red Sox, the players, in this case, are 1980s video game sprites, and even so Scully's call is perfect in its evocation of the tension of the game.

The guy in question, having spent ten hours fiddling with a twenty year old video game to get the inning just right has landed a job with a film restoration company, so kudos to him. The story can be found here, via Fred Clark.

Now, to precisely replicate the Immaculate Reception using (ironically, he said) Madden...