Petrick
11-28-2008, 02:48 PM
Suite101 (http://videoonlinegames.suite101.com/article.cfm/desert_bus_2008)
LoadingReadyRun, a Canadian sketch comedy group, will begin a charity video game marathon on Friday, Nov. 28, 2008, to raise money for the charity Child's Play
The game was Desert Bus. A game not quite published for the Sega CD over a decade ago, Desert Bus was designed as a joke by famous Las Vegas magicians Penn and Teller. The game consists entirely of driving a bus from Tucson, Arizona to Las Vegas, Nevada at 45mph in real time, requiring 8 hours of play.
The road is completely straight, and the scenery… well, there is no scenery. Only flat, dull desert the entire way. With one tumbleweed. And a bug splats on the bus’ windshield halfway through the trip. The sky changes to light or dark according to time of day, and the speedometer shows the miles driven.
Other than that, there’s nothing to see. One last component: the bus lists slightly to the left, demanding constant though minute attention from the player. After eight hours of this, the player reaches Las Vegas and gets the chance to turn around and do it all again.
This should be fun, lol :D Talking about boring game..
2007 heir goal was to raise $5,000 dollars. They didn’t anticipate more than a couple days of play, max. Four of the crew – Paul Saunders, James Turner, Morgan VanHumbeck and Bill Watt – set aside their busy and not so busy lives to alternate driving the bus in four-hour shifts.
The other crew members – Kathleen De Vere, Jeremy Petter, Graham Stark and Matt Wiggins – also gave up the outside world to be on hand for the event. “It pretty much ruined my life for a few days,” was Petter's cheerful proclamation. He checked the website as soon as he woke up in the morning, and spent the time he wasn’t sleeping or in class down at the Desert Bus house.
In the end, LoadingReadyRun played Desert Bus for 4 and half days – 104 straight hours -- and raised $22,800 dollars for Child’s Play.
DesertBus Homepages (http://desertbus.org/)
Good luck for them, and i hope that kids will get loads of goodies this year too :)
LoadingReadyRun, a Canadian sketch comedy group, will begin a charity video game marathon on Friday, Nov. 28, 2008, to raise money for the charity Child's Play
The game was Desert Bus. A game not quite published for the Sega CD over a decade ago, Desert Bus was designed as a joke by famous Las Vegas magicians Penn and Teller. The game consists entirely of driving a bus from Tucson, Arizona to Las Vegas, Nevada at 45mph in real time, requiring 8 hours of play.
The road is completely straight, and the scenery… well, there is no scenery. Only flat, dull desert the entire way. With one tumbleweed. And a bug splats on the bus’ windshield halfway through the trip. The sky changes to light or dark according to time of day, and the speedometer shows the miles driven.
Other than that, there’s nothing to see. One last component: the bus lists slightly to the left, demanding constant though minute attention from the player. After eight hours of this, the player reaches Las Vegas and gets the chance to turn around and do it all again.
This should be fun, lol :D Talking about boring game..
2007 heir goal was to raise $5,000 dollars. They didn’t anticipate more than a couple days of play, max. Four of the crew – Paul Saunders, James Turner, Morgan VanHumbeck and Bill Watt – set aside their busy and not so busy lives to alternate driving the bus in four-hour shifts.
The other crew members – Kathleen De Vere, Jeremy Petter, Graham Stark and Matt Wiggins – also gave up the outside world to be on hand for the event. “It pretty much ruined my life for a few days,” was Petter's cheerful proclamation. He checked the website as soon as he woke up in the morning, and spent the time he wasn’t sleeping or in class down at the Desert Bus house.
In the end, LoadingReadyRun played Desert Bus for 4 and half days – 104 straight hours -- and raised $22,800 dollars for Child’s Play.
DesertBus Homepages (http://desertbus.org/)
Good luck for them, and i hope that kids will get loads of goodies this year too :)