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RoadToHell (OP)
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July 10, 2013, 07:19:45 PM |
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Penn & Teller gaming Morgan van Humbeck completed his shift in front of the television and passed out. Ten minutes later, his cell phone woke him. “Morgan, this is Teller,” said a small voice on the other end of the line. “Fuck off,” replied Morgan in disbelief. He hung up the phone and went back to sleep. The drive from Tucson, Arizona, to Las Vegas, Nevada, takes approximately eight hours when travelling in a vehicle whose top speed is forty-five miles per hour. In Desert Bus, an unreleased video game from 1995 conceived by the American illusionists and entertainers Penn Jillette and Teller, players must complete that journey in real time. ... the vehicle constantly lists to the right, so players cannot take their hands off the virtual wheel; swerving from the road will cause the bus’s engine to stall, forcing the player to be towed back to the beginning. The game cannot be paused. The bus carries no virtual passengers to add human interest, and there is no traffic to negotiate. The only scenery is the odd sand-pocked rock or road sign. Players earn a single point for each eight-hour trip completed between the two cities, making a Desert Bus high score perhaps the most costly in gaming. http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/elements/2013/07/the-worst-video-game-ever-created.html |
Sam Spade: We were talking about a lot more money than this.
Kasper Gutman: Yes, sir, we were, but this is genuine coin of the realm. With a dollar of this, you can buy ten dollars of talk.
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Lethn
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July 10, 2013, 07:24:18 PM |
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That's the worst they can come up with? A bus driving game? I'm finding most mainstream games so boring now I can't even be bothered pirating them, that's how bad they are.
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RoadToHell (OP)
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July 10, 2013, 07:27:45 PM |
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oops - forgot to include link to full story in OP. The OP is edited to include it now.
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Sam Spade: We were talking about a lot more money than this.
Kasper Gutman: Yes, sir, we were, but this is genuine coin of the realm. With a dollar of this, you can buy ten dollars of talk.
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RoadToHell (OP)
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July 10, 2013, 07:29:30 PM |
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Ha! Actually, a lot of the New Yorker article is about some guys that do an annual charity event and have raised over $1 million in the 7 years they have done it. |
Sam Spade: We were talking about a lot more money than this.
Kasper Gutman: Yes, sir, we were, but this is genuine coin of the realm. With a dollar of this, you can buy ten dollars of talk.
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greyhawk
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July 10, 2013, 07:30:37 PM |
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Ha! Actually, a lot of the New Yorker article is about some guys that do an annual charity event and have raised over $1 million in the 7 years they have done it. Them's the guys in the playlist I linked to. |
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RoadToHell (OP)
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July 10, 2013, 07:34:27 PM |
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Them's the guys in the playlist I linked to.
figures - I'm at work and so don't check any youtube links. bitcointalk.org is okay, but not youtube.com. |
Sam Spade: We were talking about a lot more money than this.
Kasper Gutman: Yes, sir, we were, but this is genuine coin of the realm. With a dollar of this, you can buy ten dollars of talk.
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greyhawk
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July 10, 2013, 07:46:27 PM |
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Them's the guys in the playlist I linked to.
figures - I'm at work and so don't check any youtube links. bitcointalk.org is okay, but not youtube.com. Ah, ok. It's 56 hours of video of the guys playing Desert Bus. Note that this is only a highlights reel too. One of two. But the other one is only 30 hours. |
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SaltySpitoon
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Welcome to the SaltySpitoon, how Tough are ya?
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July 10, 2013, 07:51:10 PM |
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LIES! This is the best game ever made. I've spent probably a total of 15 hours playing this game. I tend to get bored after 3-4 hours though, so I never make it  Just because you aren't extreme enough to appreciate this game doesn't mean you have to talk badly about it. |
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RoadToHell (OP)
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July 10, 2013, 08:16:28 PM |
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LIES! This is the best game ever made. I've spent probably a total of 15 hours playing this game. I tend to get bored after 3-4 hours though, so I never make it Just because you aren't extreme enough to appreciate this game doesn't mean you have to talk badly about it. Hey - don't shoot the messenger! We're not so different from bus drivers. I thought the whole idea is hilarious - only Penn & Teller can get away with this kind of thing though. The idea of 1 point for completing the entire drive is a great touch. It was designed from the ground up to be really bad and tweak Janet Reno's nose. How can you not love it already? |
Sam Spade: We were talking about a lot more money than this.
Kasper Gutman: Yes, sir, we were, but this is genuine coin of the realm. With a dollar of this, you can buy ten dollars of talk.
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RonnieP
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July 11, 2013, 04:10:11 AM |
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LIES! This is the best game ever made.
I was just going to say, I SWEAR I remember reading about this game in EGM when I was a teenager. The review said something to the tune of "The only change in scenery is halfway through, when a single bug splats on the windshield". I wanted that game so bad.  I didn't have a Sega CD though. (I think that's what it was on anyway.) |
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AliceWonder
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July 11, 2013, 09:18:20 AM |
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How can it possibly be worse than ET for the Atari 2600?
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Moogle
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KUPO!
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July 12, 2013, 03:51:52 AM |
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There's a guy at my work who downloaded a game called bus driver. It was even so successful they released a sequel!!
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greyhawk
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July 12, 2013, 08:49:50 AM |
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There's a guy at my work who downloaded a game called bus driver. It was even so successful they released a sequel!!
Sure. Why not? It's better than Forklift Driver or Road Construnction Vehicle Driver. If those got a sequel sure Bus Driver deserves one too. |
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hany103
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July 13, 2013, 12:25:21 PM |
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this game sucked hard.
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