Topic: Desert Bus

I hope there isn' an existing thread already, but has anyone else heard of the unreleased Sega CD video game Desert Bus? If i was released i'm sure it would become a bestseller.

You're trolling, right? You drive a bus through a desert. On an unending straight road. You'd get more entertainment by taking the disk out and beating yourself to death with it

For the record:
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OMG Raylax, lol.

I wasn't trolling. I was exagerating and being sarcastic. so HA! and you get 1 point for playing 8 hours in real life. So obviously there's infinite replay value.

TOTY

TOTY?

thread of the year.

That guy who made the video probably had to bathe in holy water to forget the experience of playing the game for 5 minutes.

Crazy Bus > Desert Bus
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OH GOD MY EARS

I nominate this for Hall of Fame status.

Shpydar's comment just pushed me to second that

If this gets hall of fame status that will be the greatest accompishment of my life.

Actually, it was part of an unreleased mini-game compilation called Penn & Teller's Smoke & Mirrors (though it was made over a decade before the Wii made minigame compilations an overdone genre). It was designed so you could use the game to play pranks on your friends, though of course it'd only work if they never played or heard of the game before.

Now, where the crap is that Hall of Fame thread?

penn & tellers smoke and mirrors would have been an insta-buy. i mean the prospect of driving on a neverending road with only the sound of tires and crunching gravel, while a beautiful background of plain desert and cactus sweetens the deal.

Heard a podcast about it, some people play it for charity, and it isn't never ending, you can complete it...it just takes 8 hours of driving as if you were REALLY driving to the destination.

Yeah, this was actually released for the Saturn as part of Penn & Teller's Smoke and Mirrors.

It's not just a straight road either. That would be too passive. The bus's steering is permanently slightly off to the left so you can't just leave the game running.

...And once you finish the 8 hour drive, you get to do a return trip!

I think those charity guys dud a record of 4 return trips in a 32 hour playthrough. I bet they were tired...

Isn't the score single digits too? Like they change the score round to 000000009 or something?