PDA

View Full Version : Desert Bus for hope


El-Rodente
11-09-2007, 07:41 AM
The fine young canadians of loadingreadyrun.com have started a new project in support of the child's play charity (http://childsplaycharity.com/).
They pledge to play Desert Bus, the most tedious game ever conceived, for as many hours as donations cover.

from their site, desertbus.org (http://desertbus.org)

Tuesday, November 12, 2007
Victoria, BC, Canada

When Victoria, BC, Canada-based comedy group, LoadingReadyRun sits down for a video game marathon on November 23rd, 2007, they will be doing so for a good cause. By the time they are finished, they hope to have raised more than $5000 for children’s charity, Child’s Play.

The game they will play is known as “Desert Bus”, a game so tedious that it never saw official release. This triumph in monotony will require the LoadingReadyRun crew to drive an eight hour stretch of featureless highway repeatedly, with no stops for rest. The event will be broadcast live online at <http://www.desertbus.org>, where viewers can pledge money to keep the marathon going. The more money donated, the longer they will play.

If you were planning on donating money to child's play and not toys/games, why not donate through these guys, just to make them suffer a little longer

Codicier
11-09-2007, 07:59 AM
The box they have on the right that says: "Donate and prolong their suffering!" could easily be misconstrued...

Atorak
11-09-2007, 08:20 AM
Desert Bus for Hope reminds me of that song "Car Wash for Peace" written by the guy from Saturday Night Live. I hear them sounding the exact same way in my head.

Gorvi
11-09-2007, 08:25 AM
This is the Penn & Teller SEGA CD game, isn't it?

Zander
11-09-2007, 08:38 AM
This is the Penn & Teller SEGA CD game, isn't it?

Part of it, yeah. The "good" part.

mkelehan
11-09-2007, 08:40 AM
Let's make all of our donations this way, and make them play until next year's Child's Play.

El-Rodente
11-09-2007, 08:47 AM
Let's make all of our donations this way, and make them play until next year's Child's Play.

well, that would be very very hard to do

because it gets harder to keep playing with every hour, they're working on compound interest... so a few thousand trillion would do it... maybe

dynamik
11-09-2007, 10:01 AM
I just threw my $100 in. This better be legit EvAv! :eek:

Disgustipated
11-09-2007, 12:51 PM
I just threw my $100 in. This better be legit EvAv! :eek:

Hey, I've got a Paypal account that you can send $100 to. You know, for charity.

Headcase
11-09-2007, 01:47 PM
Part of it, yeah. The "good" part.

Yeah, the game was cancelled and most of it was incomplete and unplayable. They got Desert Bus finished though.

retinaburn
11-10-2007, 05:04 AM
I am more worried about what calendar they are using. A Tuesday November 12th in 2007?