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If nothing interesting happens in the game for 8 or 3 hours, why would you willingly play it? Also, why is Sonic only 2⅔ times faster than a bus, isn't the point of Sonic that he can run at the speed of sound?
Desert Bus was released as a protest game. In the 90s video games were demonized for being nothing more than violence simulators. Penn & Teller took that as a challenge and had some developers make the most non-violent game they could think of.
It was made as a novelty. The people who made it knew it was boring, that’s the joke. The main group that still actually plays it is a charity group who suffers through it while getting donations for Child’s Play charity.
Vinesauce Joel's playthrough of it is also very iconic
Joel also has a real-time flight from Sweden to Brazil in Flight Simulator that's very entertaining despite being several hours long.
Oh yeah, I remember that