[antognini]

Tangentially related, but I'm reminded a little bit of Desert Bus, which was an unreleased bideo game from the mid-90s which was designed to be the most annoying video game to play.

The idea is that you're driving a bus from Tucson to Las Vegas in real time. The maximum speed of the bus is 45 mph so it takes about eight hours. The bus constantly tilts right so you have to constantly correct it's course, otherwise you'll drive off the road and have to be towed back (also in real time).

The only break in the monotony is a bug that splats on the windshield at around hour 5.

[devin]

The way I remember it, the bus didn't "tilt" so much as it was supposed to be a simulation of the alignment being off.

[PeterisP]

If you make the trip, you get 1 point. You can drive back to get another point. And then go on for more points. People have competed for high scores at this game.

[rezna]

https://store.steampowered.com/app/638110/Desert_Bus_VR/

It got modernized ;-)

[Sakos]

https://youtu.be/RFi2vcseEz8 My favorite review of it.

[dudul]

Another detail: the game didn't have a pause option.

[PebblesRox]

Was it possible to pull over or stop the bus?

[dudul]

I think if the bus stopped it was towed back to the start point. Stopping or leaving the road was a fail essentially.

[thrillgore]

I'm personally a fan of the Doom port of it, called Revenant Bus.

https://www.polygon.com/2018/10/31/18050018/desert-bus-doom-...

[netsharc]

It's a game from a Penn & Teller collection of games..

[shever73]

And will brilliantly subverted into an annual charity event: Desert Bus for Hope

[mapster]

VW bus? Mine tilted left due to bent axle. Still drove from Arizona to DC that summer.

[userbinator]

It's a standard full-size (nominally ~40ft) bus:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/7d/SCD_Penn_%26_...

[herval]

Sounds like the Truck Simulator series! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truck_Simulator

[xivzgrev]

Wow that is really awful - thanks for sharing