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Sunday Comics: Dead Island Just in time for Desert Bus for Hope’s fifth annual charity drive, the infamous mini-game from Penn & Teller’s Smoke and Mirrors for Sega CD is now available on Android and all iOS devices. It is, by all appearances, a straight port of the unforgiving original, which requires you to drive eight hours in real time to achieve a single point.
Desert Bus for Hope, the fund drive dedicated to playing the world’s most boring game, ever, logged more than five days behind the wheel and raised a staggering $US132,568.94, more than 88 percent over last year’s total.
Take a seat and don’t stand forward of the yellow line – Desert Bus for Hope kicked off its third marathon o’ masochism, and looks to top the $US70,000 it raised last year for the Child’s Play charity.
When we first posted about the Desert Bus For Hope drive, in which a few unlucky charitable types would be forced to play through the bore-torture game Desert Bus for days upon end for a good cause, donations were at $US 2,000. As of this post, the outpouring of money from sadistic do-gooders is over $US 12,000. Even with the painfully low US dollar, that’s darn impressive. Donations don’t appear to be slowing down either, so make sure to do your part to keep that bus a-rollin’.
If you haven’t cursed the fate of the already long-suffering bus driving team members shackled to their computers, go on and drop ‘em a couple bucks in the name of Child’s Play. They’ll hate you for it!
The Support Has Been Amazing! [Desert Bus For Hope]
The gang from LoadingReadyRun are enduring many, many, many hours of “playing” the commercially unreleased Desert Bus, a sadistically monotonous driving game from Penn & Teller’s Smoke And Mirrors, all in the name of charity. Originally planned for release on the Sega CD and 3DO, Desert Bus requires eight-full hours of play to complete, with no pausing and absolutely no reward (save for a single point). Masochistic players drive a slightly unbalanced bus in a straight line, from Las Vegas to Tucson, experiencing virtually no changes in the scenery. For eight hours. Then they go back. Another eight hours.
The Desert Bus For Hope web site is taking donations which will increase the number of hours the team is supposed to play, giving all funds to Penny Arcade’s Child’s Play charity. Feel good by doing a little bit of evil to someone this holiday season. Thanks for bugging us, Dave!
