Desert Bus: We have a Winner
Written by Ernesto on March 09, 2006Last week we had a story on the long-lost Penn and Teller videogame Desert Bus. The goal of the game is to drive a Bus through the desert from Tucson, Arizona to Las Vegas in real-time, without scenery, while the bus slightly veers to the right.
It seems that a lot of people downloaded the [...]
Last week we had a story on the long-lost Penn and Teller videogame Desert Bus. The goal of the game is to drive a Bus through the desert from Tucson, Arizona to Las Vegas in real-time, without scenery, while the bus slightly veers to the right.
It seems that a lot of people downloaded the torrent, but until today only one person completed the trip (responded). Matt commented in the original post and emailed the screenshot.
So Matt is the official winner and is rewarded with 25$.
I asked him about the experience and he commented:
The experience was well…boring. A quadruple shot of espresso and loud music helped keep me awake. When you get to 5 hours a bug hits the screen which leaves a green splat so by the end it becomes “keeping the green splat from hitting the area to the right side of the road.”
Respect Matt, respect…
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Thanks! Just received the money :)
You’re welcome
The game is boring as hell… after 1 hour of game play, nothing gave me more pleasure that go off-road and breaking that lame 45Mph max bus engine, I did savegame before that so I could continue next day… but HELL into it. I just deleted the savegame and the game himself.
I know Matt, but didn’t understood why he was so obsess to complete one of the most boring game on earth… now I know. Money controls everything. =P
Anyhow, this game give you the most frustration into playing the game 8 hours (can be broke into tiny hours each day if you use emulator’s savegame) and end up into a screen fading and return to the score screen and add 1 point…
Thank god I didn’t wasted the others 7 hours on this game. Better waste the 8 hours playing Tetris or some other game that gives you gameplay pleasure =)
NOTE: Savegame load only works when you are into the desert bus game, if not, the rom crash… this information is only if you are strong enough to beat Matt score (doubtful if someone can score 2 points) =)
Btw, more funny details about Matt experience: Matt felt asleep into the last 7 hour and 13 minutes, since he savegame each hour, he only lost 13 minutes, he finished the game aprox. 8am GTM 0:00 (Time when normal peoples should awake to go to work) GO CAFFEINE, POWER UP!. He took total of 2 days, being the 2nd day the worse (last 5 hours of gameplay?) =)
So Matt cheated!
I want my money back ;)
JustBurn lies! I played the game all in the same 24 hours. I made hourly save states and loaded them up when I crashed - which happened a few times so I had to replay about 45 minutes worth in the end :|
I guess JustBurn is just a little jealous.. ;)
Jealous for what? Winning the most boring game of all times and receive 1 point? No thanks. :)
Matt: You mean you didnt started playing when you finished the download?
Anyhow theres the logs if you guys call me a liar or jealous, beside this is fun to others to see more details about the experience. ;P
(Removed random coversation to lower post size)
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| Session Start: Saturday, March 04, 2006 |
| Participants: |
| JustBurn (justburner@hotmail.com) |
| Matt (matthew_marter@hotmail.com) |
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[10:30:37 PM] JustBurn: w0000f
[10:30:41 PM] JustBurn: what’s up?
[10:30:57 PM] Matt: Hey
[10:31:03 PM] Matt: What’s up?
[10:31:12 PM] JustBurn: i asked you first -.-
[10:31:19 PM] Matt: bah :P
[10:31:31 PM] Matt: Just downloading http://torrentfreak.com/desert-bus-the-torrent/
[10:31:40 PM] Matt: and running ubuntu in a virtual machine
[10:35:30 PM] JustBurn: your downloading the 810MB one? o_o
[10:35:41 PM] Matt: Yeah
[10:38:10 PM] JustBurn: 2 CDs ?
[10:38:11 PM] JustBurn: x_x
[10:38:27 PM] Matt: Yeah
[10:38:54 PM] Matt: No idea why :P
[10:39:14 PM] JustBurn: me neither if the scenario never changes ;P
[10:39:36 PM] JustBurn: and the game snapshot looks to me like it’s a DOS game
[10:39:49 PM] Matt: Sega CD
[10:40:00 PM] JustBurn: i know, but it really looks like a DOS game
[10:43:08 PM] JustBurn: lets see if Matt can take 8 hours >=)
[10:43:26 PM] Matt: I will :P Just not all at once :P
[10:43:44 PM] JustBurn: bet theres no pause button
[10:43:45 PM] Matt: save states
[10:43:52 PM] JustBurn: that’s cheating!
[10:43:56 PM] Matt: bah
[10:44:33 PM] JustBurn: im downloading the smaller one
[10:44:38 PM] JustBurn: 486MB
[10:45:05 PM] Matt: makes no difference, it’s nearly finished anyway.
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| Session Start: Monday, March 06, 2006 |
| Participants: |
| JustBurn (justburner@hotmail.com) |
| Matt (matthew_marter@hotmail.com) |
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[02:37:21 AM] Matt: Hey
[02:37:32 AM] JustBurn: yo =)
[02:37:59 AM] Matt: Playing “Desert Bus” - 3.5 hours in :|
[02:38:04 AM] JustBurn: LOL
[02:38:13 AM] JustBurn: i’ve played the collection pack
[02:38:23 AM] Matt: hehe
[02:38:51 AM] JustBurn: Now i know why SEGA didnt released it =P
(…)
( I’ve started playing the game too… )
[04:58:20 AM] JustBurn: crappy bus, is so slow -.-
[04:58:54 AM] Matt: In PGR3 it’s easy to go over 200Mph :/
[04:59:01 AM] Matt: 45Mph max is harsh
[04:59:05 AM] JustBurn: heh
[04:59:29 AM] JustBurn: and on 45Mph, the heat is at max
[05:00:22 AM] JustBurn: The direction is all messed up XD
[05:13:15 AM] JustBurn: Didn’t you notice one funny thing?
[05:13:31 AM] Matt: What?
[05:13:45 AM] JustBurn: The gas tank is empty
[05:13:49 AM] JustBurn: see the meter =P
[05:13:52 AM] Matt: yeah
[05:14:00 AM] Matt: I saw that
[05:14:00 AM] JustBurn: Theres noone inside the bus either
[05:14:10 AM] JustBurn: Taking a ghost ride to Vegas =P
[05:14:25 AM] Matt: :P
[05:14:43 AM] JustBurn: Can take all the road since theres no cars XD
[05:15:08 AM] JustBurn: I saw a bus sign but noone was sitting there =P
[05:19:13 AM] JustBurn: You gonna play it until 10pm? ;P
[05:27:31 AM] JustBurn: 10am, i mean
[05:28:01 AM] Matt: I should be finished before then :D
[05:28:13 AM] JustBurn: >_>
[05:28:28 AM] JustBurn: what your bus clock say?
[05:28:40 AM] Matt: 1:19
[05:28:48 AM] JustBurn: O_O
[05:29:31 AM] JustBurn: 8am then
[05:50:49 AM] Matt: roughly
[06:31:42 AM] Matt: Not too long left :D
[06:35:05 AM] JustBurn: Dont fell asleep ;P
[06:35:16 AM] Matt: I won’t :P
[06:49:14 AM] Matt: around an hour left :D
[06:53:35 AM] JustBurn: heh
[06:53:40 AM] JustBurn: save state =P
[06:54:19 AM] Matt: yeah :P
[06:54:26 AM] Matt: I’m saving every hour
[06:54:36 AM] JustBurn: =P
(Matt start to hand-drawing a crash on a road)
[07:42:27 AM] JustBurn: felt alsleep on the wheel?
[07:42:44 AM] Matt: Microsleep :P
[07:42:54 AM] JustBurn: finished?
[07:43:17 AM] JustBurn: x_x
[07:43:27 AM] JustBurn: you crashed? x_x
[07:43:53 AM] Matt: Yeah so I lost 13 minutes or so :/
[07:43:59 AM] JustBurn: lol
[07:44:13 AM] JustBurn: silly matt =P
[07:44:43 AM] Matt: try doing the most boring thing possible after not
sleeping :P
[07:44:55 AM] JustBurn: haha
[07:45:01 AM] JustBurn: yeah, that’s terrible boring
[07:45:48 AM] JustBurn: go to bed, wake up and your refreshed to go to
the ride =)
[07:45:57 AM] JustBurn: 45Mph ride … lol
(…)
[07:51:24 AM] JustBurn: anyhow, gonna hit the bed
[07:51:35 AM] JustBurn: while you hit the bus out of the track ;P
[07:51:40 AM] Matt: Don’t leave me :P
[07:51:51 AM] JustBurn: it’s 8am!
[07:52:19 AM] JustBurn: Normal peoples actually woke up 2 hours ago
XD
[07:53:09 AM] Matt: :P
[07:53:36 AM] JustBurn: see ya, you should go to bed or whatever too
>_>
[07:53:48 AM] JustBurn: or going to be awake all day?
[07:54:06 AM] Matt: I need to leave for college at 11am and I don’t
get back until 6pm so yeah
[07:54:42 AM] JustBurn: “yeah” as “sleep” or “awake”?
[07:55:58 AM] JustBurn: guess it’s “awake” ;p
[07:56:10 AM] Matt: Not much choice…
[07:56:24 AM] JustBurn: half awake and half sleep =)
Poor Matt, he deserved his $25… heh.
You know, some people may say that Matt has no life for doing this. I say that JustBurn has no life for making a big deal out of all of this.
Hey well on saturday two of my friends and I beat the game going non stop. The game ended at 7am hehe
oh…8 hours on such boring game,
it is terrible
Sometimes humanity scares me.. but this one was pretty funny^^
This was very funny, and enjoy all the comments….
Being on work gives you more pleasure than this game and it gives more money also. So even if you get 25$ for this game that’s not really worth the time spent on it. same as being 3hours in work with a crappy income
Most emulators allow you to speed the game up. Theoretically you could score a point after only an hour or two of gameplay if you set the frameskip up high enough.. I played around with it a bit yesterday and it wasn’t too hard to control on fast-forward.
In my opinion, save states and other “cheats” defeat the entire purpose of the game. You’re supposed to sit there, nonstop, and waste 8 grueling hours of your life… one mistake and you start over. Save states are for wussies.
I agree
I beat it in 15 min thanks to altering the emulator to allow a very fast speedhack.
Nice site!
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WOW!!!
GOOD JOB!!!
hit up desertbus.org and these guys for donations are going to play for as long as the money keeps comin. tuscan to vegas and back and forth till the money rubs out. check em out
No need for save states when gens+ has a turbo button :)
Yes, everyone check out
DESERTBUS.org
They’ve got live cameras of the bus and of the driver! It’s for a good cause!
I like this game
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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