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. Penn & Teller and Eddie Gorodetsky for conceiving/creating the original Desert Bus mini-game as part of Smoke and Mirrors.īig thanks to RogerExplosion of for letting me use the graphics and sounds from his java port.The New Yorker has a very funny piece today on a real life half-existent videogame from the late 90s designed by Penn and Teller that sounds an awful lot like your videogame: This prevents accidental wiimote button presses from ruining your high score. The only way to exit the game manually is to use the power button on wii. If your wiimote batteries die, grab the number two wiimote and use that while you replace the batteries in number one.
#DESERT BUS GAME FULL#
The full trip will take 8 hours, assuming you travel constantly at your top speed. It will change as the day goes on (unlike the original, which had a habit of getting stuck in a night->dawn->night loop). The desert scenery will reflect real-world time - if you play the game at night, you'll be driving at night.
Likewise, remaining stationary will also cause overheating. Staying there for too long will cause the bus to get bogged and you'll overheat. You can tell if you're too far over the edge by the sound of crunching gravel. Your objective is pretty simple: stay on the road. If you enjoy this game please consider making a donation to Child's Play. Desert Bus For Hope 5 starts on November 18th. Desert Bus For Hope 4 raised over $200,000. All proceeds will go to Desert Bus For Hope 5.Įvery November for the past 4 years, the comedy group LoadingReadyRun has undertaken "Desert Bus For Hope", during which they attempt to play the original Desert Bus game for as long as people keep sending in charity donations for Child's Play. This app is now available for the iPhone/iPod Touch via Cydia (just search for "Desert Bus"). More background information can be found in this video of Penn & Teller from Comic-Con 2010, including the minor political events that inspired the game (somebody can now tell Penn the iphone app is on the way). If it sounds boring, that's because it is. If you don't push 2 within the 12 second countdown the game will end. Then you get 12 seconds to decide if you want to attempt the return journey back to Tucson. If you do happen to make it all the way to Las Vegas, you get 1 point. When it arrives it will tow you back to the last starting point, and the game ends.
If the bus engine overheats due to running off the road or remaining stationary for too long, a tow truck will be dispatched to collect you. Driving off with the door open is not allowed as it would be a safety violation. Note that you probably won't find anyone waiting (it's the desert after all). The only things you're likely to see while on the road (besides the desert floras) are a few scattered bus stops, which you can stop at and open the door of the bus. The bus can only reach 45 miles an hour and pulls to the right ever so slightly. The full trip is 360 miles long, which must be completed without stopping. The aim of Desert Bus is to drive from Tucson, Arizona to Las Vegas, Nevada.
One of the mini-games was called "Desert Bus", which has been faithfully reproduced here for the Wii. In 1995 Penn & Teller produced a video game for the Sega CD called Smoke and Mirrors but the publisher went bankrupt before it could be released.
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