Girls attempt real-life version of video game

Jatsie · 04-01-2006, 05:36 PM

This made me laugh, the article is here.

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Five teenage girls from Portage County face potential criminal charges after attempting to play a real-life version of Super Mario Bros.

The Portage County Hazardous Materials Unit and Bomb Detection Unit were called in to downtown Ravenna on Friday morning after seventeen suspicious packages -- boxes wrapped in gold wrapping paper with question marks spray painted on them -- had alarmed residents.

Boxes were found at the Immaculate Conception Church on West Main Street, the Portage County Courthouse, Deluxe Pastries, the corner of Cherry Way and Main Street, Reed Memorial Library, Ravenna High School and a residence at Sanford and Main streets.

Five girls -- age 16 and 17 -- claimed responsibility for making and placing the packages. The girls said they found an Internet site that included step-by-step instructions for creating replicas of blocks featured in the game.

The Ravenna Police Department will be working with the Portage County Prosecutor's Office regarding possible criminal charges as a result of the game.

Jolaes · 04-01-2006, 06:02 PM

My sympathy for the girls. Hope they won't be sent to a forced labor camp or get institutionalized...
for such an innocent joke.

this brings in my mind the hottest summer day and longest moment I spent in deadly silence in the company of my cousin, 6 years ago. He bought a truckload of firewood and started to chop some up, perhaps for next day's campfire, when I walked out from our house (we were neighbors back then) and started to talk to him over the fence. He went on with his work when suddenly a blow didn't end with a "thump" but a "sweeeeooonnnngggg". He released the axe and we stared at the axe stuck in... an 80 mm armor piercing artillery shell neatly embedded in the tree root... It was badly corroded of course, but didn't take long to be identified as an artillery round, a leftover of the Soviet artillery barrage on Budapest (1945).
If the axe had struck an inch higher, we surely would have had a closed coffin burial service.

Karmillo · 04-01-2006, 06:22 PM

Was it even a joke? I thought they were just setting up to play a game and some idiot calls the cops about it

NcroManiac · 04-01-2006, 06:30 PM

I smell april fools

After a brisk nap · 04-01-2006, 08:09 PM

The story may be an April Fool's joke, but real-life Super Mario levels have been constructed before. MIT students once turned the "infinite corridor" in their main university building into level 1-1 of Super Mario Bros. as a "hack" (prank).

***tabacco*** · 04-01-2006, 10:54 PM

http://www.yikes.com/~pengo/8bit/

Some engineering students used Post-It notes to create mario characters in windows, with each notepaper as 1 pixel from the original sprites

Intrepid Homoludens · 04-01-2006, 10:55 PM

Gotta love those nerds-at-large.

04-01-2006, 06:02 PM	#2
Jolaes Fire Dragon/Pisces Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Hungary Posts: 334	My sympathy for the girls. Hope they won't be sent to a forced labor camp or get institutionalized... for such an innocent joke. this brings in my mind the hottest summer day and longest moment I spent in deadly silence in the company of my cousin, 6 years ago. He bought a truckload of firewood and started to chop some up, perhaps for next day's campfire, when I walked out from our house (we were neighbors back then) and started to talk to him over the fence. He went on with his work when suddenly a blow didn't end with a "thump" but a "sweeeeooonnnngggg". He released the axe and we stared at the axe stuck in... an 80 mm armor piercing artillery shell neatly embedded in the tree root... It was badly corroded of course, but didn't take long to be identified as an artillery round, a leftover of the Soviet artillery barrage on Budapest (1945). If the axe had struck an inch higher, we surely would have had a closed coffin burial service. Share Share this post on Twitter __________________ *Ita in vita ut in lusu alae pessima iactura arte corrigenda est.* Last edited by Jolaes; 04-01-2006 at 06:58 PM.

04-01-2006, 06:22 PM	#3
Karmillo woof Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: NOT REALLY RIGHT HERE Posts: 4,750	Was it even a joke? I thought they were just setting up to play a game and some idiot calls the cops about it Share Share this post on Twitter __________________ "I've got nothing to lose! Except for...well everything."

04-01-2006, 06:30 PM	#4
NcroManiac Explorer of the uncharted Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Iceland Posts: 670	I smell april fools Share Share this post on Twitter __________________ We are all made of stardust, the building block of the stars. And I think the time has come to shine like the suns we are and play online for fun.

04-01-2006, 08:09 PM	#5
After a brisk nap Elegantly copy+pasted Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 1,773	The story may be an April Fool's joke, but real-life Super Mario levels have been constructed before. MIT students once turned the "infinite corridor" in their main university building into level 1-1 of Super Mario Bros. as a "hack" (prank). Share Share this post on Twitter __________________ Please excuse me. I've got to see a man about a dog.

04-01-2006, 10:54 PM	#6
*tabacco* Friendly Server Admin Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Marin County, CA Posts: 4,087	http://www.yikes.com/~pengo/8bit/ Some engineering students used Post-It notes to create mario characters in windows, with each notepaper as 1 pixel from the original sprites Share Share this post on Twitter

04-01-2006, 10:55 PM	#7
Intrepid Homoludens merely human Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Chicago Posts: 22,309	Gotta love those nerds-at-large. Share Share this post on Twitter __________________ platform: laptop, iPhone 3Gs \| gaming: x360, PS3, psp, iPhone, wii \| blog: a space alien \| book: the moral landscape: how science can determine human values by sam harris \| games: l.a.noire, portal 2, brink, dragon age 2, heavy rain \| sites: NPR, skeptoid, gaygamer \| music: ray lamontagne, adele, washed out, james blake \| twitter: a_space_alien

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