Awful Simulator Games: Desert Bus Review
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- Опубліковано 10 лют 2025
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A simulation of driving a bus...in a desert...down a straight road...FOR 8 HOURS STRAIGHT. Joy. The original copy of desert bus was packaged within another game called "Penn & Teller's Smoke and Mirrors" for the Sega CD. Recently, the game was used as a torturous marathon to raise money for a children's charity. I recommend skipping the torture and just donating some money.
The people who torture themselves to raise money: desertbus.org/
They made this game to prove a point. A politician said that video games now a days, filled with violence and crime. She suggested that video games should be more like real life & teach about real life things. So they made this game to show what it'd be like if someone actually did it. The result, a really crappy boring game.
That's actually an unbelievably crappy point. There's no reason to make games be more like real life.. we have real life for that. Games was invented for the purpose of doing stuff that aren't realistic for you to do in real life.
oh, unless, you meant some game developers made it to show how awful it would be if they did.. :P
***** wait, huh? I knew it was a joke.. never said I didn't. You're missing my point dude, I misunderstood the reason for the joke (the game being made), but I always knew it was made as a joke nonetheless... and no reason to give me a big wall of text about having a poor sense of humor and a low intelligence, just chill out, it wasn't that big of a deal, was it? Rofl..
What was she, one of those parents that criticized Power Rangers for being too violent? (facepalm)
I love Penn Jilette and would like to meet him, but I'd get bored of this minigame of his pretty quick. I don't play many verisimulators very much.
Ironically, it might be the most realistic simulator ever.
It requires your full attention, because any slacking off or attempts at cheating (unless you have some kind of super-smart robot) will result in failure. And the price for failure is *SEVERE.*
At least you have a pine car refresher to entertain you.
My childhood game, loved this so much.
I grew up playing this with my friends, This is one of the best games i have played. The sound is the best part.
My favourite part is when I drive through desert
From wikipedia: "If the player makes it to Las Vegas, he scores one point. The player then has the option to make the return trip to Tucson for another point. Players may continue to make trips and score points as long as their endurance holds out. An insect splats on the windscreen about five hours through the first trip, and on the return trip the light fades, with differences at dusk, and later a pitch black road where the player is guided only with headlights."
I live in New Mexico the desert has some of the most beautiful scenery in the world. Canyons,mesa and ufos!
In reality, yes.
In this, it's just a bland orange wasteland.
5Oblivion You will also see alot of Native American on your bus which are usually drunk.
+How to basic nice its like in poland
@@Jaxymann ufos?
That's not at all an aweful game. It's just very boring because it really simulates the experience of driving a bus through the desert for eight hours straight.
They make a mistake with the gauges, it seems like the fuel tank is empty and the engine is overheating.
You forgot to mention that the bus pulls to the right on its own. It was designed that way as an additional troll so the player couldn't just complete the drive by pressing the accelerator and going away to do something else. When you complete the route, you start from the endpoint and go back. Exciting stuff.
Ask my parents about driving a vehicle for eight hours with no scenery; when you live on the flippin' prairies...
"The desert never sleeps and neither do we" Well that's not creepy.
"This group played for like 8 hours straight"
I believe they did over 150 hours straight this year.
That Tow Truck was hauling ass.
"I think there was a Wii version" - Stan Burdman, 2012
from time to time there is a bug hitting the windscreen, but the windcreenwipers won't wipe it away
I actually giggled. The guy who made this is a total G.
You know a game sucks, when 10 minutes and 24 seconds feels like 2 hours...
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"Record it"
UNCLE JOBEL WE NEED YOU
I wouldnt call it awful, just boring, at least they use it for charity.
This game gets Jack Thompson's seal of approval.
Everything you loved about Crazy Bus, now with an ending!
1995? Looks like 1988
Luminita Beu more like 1976
+Zip Zap Hey it's Zip Zap :D
Perfect way to start off my new Bus Driving Job.
Fam get desert bus vr, all the fun you’ll ever need
I have actually played this game for the entire 8 hours. Unfortunately, I do not have a capture card that can record video footage. At least a bug hits the glass halfway through the game.
I know a man who will take the challenge... a man who hates ducks.
The worst thing is that u can't pause the fucking game :D
You can light it on fire and it will pause.
You can pause by stopping the vehicle. That's how you pause.
I pass this game under 20 minutes with an emulator :p
=O What did you do to beat it?
Most emulators hava a fps limiter. If you change the value from the default to the triple or more (not so high that your cpu can't handle it) the speed of the game will be insane and unplayable. For the bus simulator this works fine.
Leor Flor Do you know why they have an FPS limiter in place? because modern computers are so much more powerful than a genesis that they're engine's aren't stabilized for a faster machine.
Unless you already knew this already...
*****
Yes I know that already, wish the PS2 emulator had a FPS Booster. All I can do is turn off everything to keep the game running at full speed and still that isn't enough.
Leor Flor the PS2's hardware is very foreign and emulating it is a nightmare for people trying to play games on it and for the people that made the emulator especially. That is the reason why it's slow
You probably could speed the emulator up to cheat a bit to get the video and slow it down
These graphics...SO REAL.
confirmed, my graphics card will not play this game.
Sort of like driving through western Kansas.
There is a big charity event that happens yearly, based around this game
No scenery? There's a small tree oh your mirror you can pet and admire.
Daniel Hardcastle actually did the full 8 hour shift and its all recorded
Wow, I stand corrected. When I thought "CrazyBus" was the worst game ever, I forgot about this. While CrazyBus had awful title music, it was also hilariously bad, and that was the only good thing about it. There is nothing good about Desert Bus.
I'd rather "play" CrazyBus than this.
Also, there is a remake of this as a SMW hack on SMWCentral.
At the beginning I was hoping this video would be 10 minutes of you driving in silence with a "goodbye my friend" at the end.
There was a livestream marathon of this game for charity.
It's a perfect simulation of bus driver hell.
I am still waiting for release of toll collector and bird watcher.
Yes, there is a Wii version. It's only available through the homebrew channel, though.
A Game stupefyingly like reality - Penn and Teller.
TheDash456 I have an idea for a sequel that even MORE stupefyingly realistic.
What is it?
TheDash456 Desert Bus 2: Back to Vegas.
walking simulator desert edition
This video changed me... spiritually.
If you think the game is boring, just ask bus drivers or truck drivers out there. They drive hundreds of miles a day, year in and year out all for a living. Life is boring at times.
AVGN brought me to this game.
I played this on Wii, i leaved the Wii on for 8-9 Hours, yet it wasnt finished .-.
The mere thought...that Goku would be inside/underneath the sand.... o.o
The bus breaks because the sand has a hidden Goku inside it (G iku hates buses)
Please do "Toll Collector™", "Portrait Sitter™" and "Bird Watcher™"! They all sound like the definition of "exciting"...
The awkward moment when you put the video in 720p -.-
My soul feel sad now...
This game is unironically ahead of its time and is making an artistic statement. This could legitimately be in a museum. Desert Bus is based.
You don’t offer a single valid critique other than the broken realism factor (the amount of time is the only major “realism,” factor that was important).
the fuel says "E" yet you are still driving. wat
"The last checkpoint"
also the engine temperature is really hot in like 2 minutes
For some odd reason this game has just recently caught on with a bunch of media outlets.
Janet Reno was the Attorney General
is there any weather change in this game? cause there is windscreen wipers.
Just imagine a few mountains in the background and yeah, this is pretty much Arizona.
Actually this might be a tie with CrazyBus.
SO you say it's bad.... I like it. But I'll wait for Nerd Cubed's verdict.
lol that sand must be quick sand that sucks the bus down like a black hole, hence the tow truck
Best simulator game ever existed
Sure. -takes coat off and hands it to you-
Big rigs over the road racing has nothing on this
It's a free browser game. Google it.
It's also on a collection on the Sega CD that was never released: "Penn and Teller's Smoke and Mirrors", as was stated in the disclaimer. you need a Sega emulator that can run Sega CD games, but all the materials and how-to can be found with some google & youtube searches. I recommend the CD version because it has some other cool games on it. Just make sure you download the manual too so you know how they work.
Someone is gonna drop dead playing this game.
The game was made to be realistic only in the sense of being realistically boring and pointless.
man i played the remake of this and i was at the end of game... about 10 mins left.. then a nortan security pop add appears and i cant control the bus and i steer of the road and i die..
still more realistic than Crazy Bus :D
It this just a copy of an old Tonka ruck game that had a huge contraption that would press all the keys when you'd turn the wheel or flipped a switch?
Stanburdman vs. JamesNintendoNerd who would win?
what's worse, this or crazybus?
You ever heard of nostalgia?
You need 4 GTX Titans to run it on low-mid settings.
I have a Radeon 6950 graphics card, will it play this game at highest settings?
I remember an awesome bus driving game where you would go around running everyone over.
this game was not made to be fun...
Assuming I complete it, I'll record the whole time I play it with voice over though, I'll upload the best bits. Watch this space I guess... I feel this wasn't the best challenge I've ever drunkenly accepted, the more I think about this but OH WELL!
And in the end you only get one point, that's right, ONE FUCKING POINT.
a more exciting planet than any in no mans skye
I found the game on the app store, should i buy it?
I hope Wot (nerd3's flatmate) knows how to use a defebulater.
oh right.
Depends... Is it the 2gb or the 1gb version?
goodbye
Mmm, red deserts.
45mph? A Semi Rig goes faster than that lol
well... yes
Where can I see a speedrun of this game?
is that supposed to be the mirror?
Cutting through cheese ?
Are those other games they mention real?
Dan please ignore him
yes
Still better than Modern Warfare.
*****
man he was kidding
Matrilwood man i was kidding.
Am I the only one who kept staring at the tree?
You know the angry video nerd review this game.
Stan did it first .AVGN:2014. .stanburdman:2012
Daniel Villa I didn't know that. Thank.
You're welcome
+This dog stanbirdman
There shouldn't be a "first". it's more like "the more the merrier"
maby its sand from moon
it will take 7h and 56 min for the tow truck to tow you back to the beginning and then the game is over...just like what you saw in his short tow truck experience...the game has a way to troll u before the word was even invented :)