Originally posted by FootLongSub Zero:
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quote:Makes me think of: http://www.gamesetwatch.com/2006/03/penn_jillette_discusses_unrele.php
Originally posted by FootLongSub Zero:
Watch paint dry
quote:
http://www.gamesetwatch.com/2006/03/penn_jillette_discusses_unrele.php
The goal of Desert Bus was to, quite simply, drive a bus from Tucson, Arizona to Las Vegas, Nevada; a very very boring drive, as those of us who have done it know. There were a couple catches, though: in the game, your bus could not go over 45 miles per hour. Also, it veered to the right, just ever so slightly, so you could not simply tape down the accelerator button on your Genesis pad and leave the game alone; you had to man the wheel at all times. Oh, and did we mention the trip takes eight hours, in real time?
"You saw nothing. It was just desert stuff going by," said Jillette. "And there was a little green tree hanging from the rear-view mirror, one of those things that makes your car smell better? And it would just kind of drift in slowly to one corner of the screen. And you couldn't take your hands off the controller, and if you did...it didn't have a spectacular crash, it just slowly went into the sand, and then overheated and stopped, and then the game was you being towed backwards all the way back to Tucson."
"And when you went from Tucson to Vegas and did the full 8 hours, you had bus stops, and the bus stops...you could stop and open the door, but no one got on. No one's ever waiting for you. And if you went by them you weren't punished at all, because nobody was there. It meant nothing. And a bug hit your windshield five times during the eight hours, and that was the only animation. It was just road after road after road. Eight hours of desert bus. And then when you got in - and I love this - when you got into Vegas and pulled in and stopped, the counter - which was five zeros - went to 1. You got 1 point for an eight hour shift, and then a guy came in and said, 'Do you want to pull a double shift, Mac?' And then you could drive back to Tucson for another eight hours for another point."
Jillette then detailed the official Desert Bus contest that Absolute had planned to accompany the game:
"And we were planning on giving a very lavish prize for the person that got the highest score. It was the person who got like, a hundred [points]. So 800 hours of playing this. We were hoping that groups of people, like fraternities and stuff, would play."
"It was going to be, you got to go on Desert Bus from Tucson to Vegas with showgirls and a live band and just the most partying bus ever. You got to Vegas, we're going to put you up at the Rio, big thing, and then, you know, big shows.
quote:EXACTLY what I was looking for, thanks man
Originally posted by diamond johny:
http://www.abovetopsecret.com
Very entertaining.
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quote:Great link Johny! Woke up early this morning saw your message and just killed a couple of hours on a couple of links on that site.
Originally posted by Andy-Laa:
quote:EXACTLY what I was looking for, thanks man
Originally posted by diamond johny:
http://www.abovetopsecret.com
Very entertaining.
quote:Mmmm just...nothing works for me lol - on the flight back from going to Aus to see Athena, I was up for 28 hours...and I took sleeping pills beforehand.
Originally posted by LeDaemon:
quote:Great link Johny! Woke up early this morning saw your message and just killed a couple of hours on a couple of links on that site.
Originally posted by Andy-Laa:
quote:EXACTLY what I was looking for, thanks man
Originally posted by diamond johny:
http://www.abovetopsecret.com
Very entertaining.
Andy, I thought the best thing for insomnia was to find something so boring that it would put you to sleep. A site that interesting would keep you up all night.
quote:Get out your tin foil hat!
Originally posted by Andy-Laa:
quote:EXACTLY what I was looking for, thanks man
Originally posted by diamond johny:
http://www.abovetopsecret.com
Very entertaining.