Quickie: 8-bit art imitates life, Vikings blow playoffs in Tecmo Bowl, Buckner and Game 6 relived in RBI Baseball

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Many of you may have seen these before, but in honor of the Minnesota Vikings likely blowing the playoffs this weekend, I figured I should share a video of the last time they choked this hard: 2003.

They started out the season on fire and were extinguished down the stretch, losing to the immortal Arizona Cardinals. Here’s a Tecmo Bowl re-enactment along with the voice of the Vikings Network Paul Allen. (It hurts to watch this again. Even in 8-bit mode.)

But here’s a loss of much bigger proportions: The bottom of the 10th inning in game six of the 1986 World Series. Except it’s in RBI Baseball. This has been around for awhile, but it’s so cool that someone went through this painstaking of an effort to recreate it.

And last, here’s a short dunk from last year’s NBA playoffs, when Baron Davis absolutely shat on the face of Andrei Kirilenko. This time its replayed in NBA 2k7 with the actual TV sportscasters.

If anyone else knows of any other real life to video game reenactments, drop me a line. I love how they throw the TV crews in with it and the videos sync up. Here’s hoping they don’t have the 1999 NFL playoffs anywhere.

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