Too much time on their hands is taken to a new level.
Three guys (James Wright, Joe Ciappa and a someone known as Tempusmori) spent over 500 hours to recreate level of a 22 year old Game Boy game, Super Mario Land, using more than 18 million Minecraft blocks. The creators of the huge project used a Game Boy emulator to view the first-level and then replicated it pixel-by-pixel inside a giant Minecraft Game Boy.
Apparently, the three spent four weeks straight working six to seven hours a day (jesus christ) to create the shots. They then dropped their shots into a video editor and recorded each frame for a sixth of a second, equalling out to two minutes and twenty seconds of gameplay.
While I poke fun at this … uh … accomplishment, it is an insane amount of dedication and I guess if something is worth doing, it's worth OVER doing. Right?
Have a look at the "making of" video:
