In real life, there are other cars, the decor may change a bit from time to time, you can listen to the radio or an iPod, you can talk to passengers if there are any, etc.
Desert Bus for Hope still continues. In the 2019 run they raised $865,015.00. They marathon this game for roughly a week each year. Props to AVGN for calling them out in here.
Speed strats: - Pressing left in the correct 2 frame window increases the bus's speed to 46 mph for 0.3 seconds. - Double tapping the accelerator while pressing right in the correct 1 frame window will despawn the next rock on the side of the road which prevents lag. This is called "rock skipping" - Watch out for the invisible kaizo block at mile #267
@TheOcelot 11 A Kaizo block is the name of invisible blocks in super mario romhacks. Ones that only appear when you jump up and hit them. Its a mario romhack/speedrunner term.
Jesus Christ! Even a real life 8 hour bus drive is more fun! At least in real life there are other vehicles, turns in the road, and a radio to listen to!
Useless Piece Of Human Flesh Not to mention that you're generally not the one driving the bus and you can take a nap, watch videos and occasionally stop for food and a toilet break.
"Do your life have a pause control?" Yes, it's called stopping and take a break, which you could very much do since you're the _only one_ on the bus! And on a road this long, I guarantee there would be places to stop for exactly that purpose. In real life, the bus would not go that slow, you would have music to listen to. They did not simulate real life, they simulated pain nobody would actually go through irl.
Yep. They should've had one radio station that kicks in when u get reception, cuts out for about a half hour then completely changes to another station with reception as you move along. Honestly if gta did that it would be rewarding
What makes Big Rigs superior to Desert Bus is the fact that it's just so enjoyably ridiculous. There are so many glitches that you can take advantage of to give you an hour or less of enjoyment. Desert Bus is an existential nightmare that punishes you for trying to crack the system. Penn and Teller didn't create a game. They created a form of torture.
Think of it this way. Would you rather want to watch a long, dull movie that was intentionally dull to simulate real life in an office, or would you rather watch Tommy Wiseau's The Room, a movie that ended up being so shit that it turned out to be enjoyable to watch.
I have a solution of a physical auto-beat: Make a gear on a wheel that will slap the d-pad once in a while so it will go left as soon as it went too right.
Desert Bus: the movie Penn and Teller play two rival bus drivers who challenge each other to a race from Tueson to Las Vegas. On the way, they stay in touch with the radio and learn about love, life and the inevitability of death. They also encounter a psychotic hitchhiker played by Rutger Hauer. Also starring Sharon Stone and Michael Caine.
ROUND AND ROUND AND ROUND AND ROUND AND ROUND AND ROUND AND ROUND AND ROUND AND ROUND AND ROUND AND ROUND AND ROUND AND ROUND AND ROUND AND ROUND AND ROUND AND ROUND AND ROUND AND ROUND AND ROUND AND ROUND AND ROUND AND ROUND AND ROUND AND ROUND AND ROUND AND ROUND AND ROUND AND ROUND AND ROUND AND ROUND AND ROUND AND ROUND AND ROUND AND ROUND AND ROUND AND ROUND AND ROUND
Considering that everything in this game happens in real time, that tow truck got out to the bus pretty quickly. When you're stuck in the desert you usually have to wait another few hours for help to arrive. Or maybe Nerd just cut that part out...
Oh, and Penn and Teller designed the game this way because they wanted it to be realistic? Well they made one mistake - surely a route from Arizona to Vegas would have at least _one_ petrol station, diner, public bathroom, side road and hitch-hiker along the way? It wouldn't just be 714km of nothing. Speaking of which, is it even possible to drive a bus for eight hours straight without needing to stop for petrol?
Links Fraulein you can't see it but there's a guy tied to the side of the bus that pours gas in when needed and the bus driver has a piss bag and a feeding tube
+Константин Волков I think avgn only does retro games, the most modern game he's done is big rigs In the big rigs video, he even says he doesn't usually do games from the current millennium
James- this is by far the best internet series ever. I mean that literally. The fact you don’t have ten times the subs is criminal. You paved the wave for so many youtubers. So many people can probably attribute success to what you started and continue to do. You’ve inspired so many. I hope you never quit this. Your videos are so rewatchable. Keep it up man, we all love you!
Agreed as well. Even the few I don't agree with in their entirety still make extremely valid sub-points and are extremely entertaining (such as the second-hand smoke episode).
To me one of the coolest things about the nerd is that I literally aged with him. I've been following him since 2004, and through a lot of rough moments in my life I knew I could just watch a nerd episode and that would just make me forget about everything. Idk why, but seeing the nerd being frustrated and giving games the finger is almost what you wish you could do to life itself. Watching his game collection and video quality grow, as well as his ambitions towards the whole thing (movie) is so great. You're awesome James. Hopefully with the nerd movie you'll get the full attention you deserve and maybe have your own retro-gaming tv show!
luke rush Would you believe me if i said i started watching his videos when i was 5 YEARS OLD? And his videos helped me to learn english, since it isn't my native language, and now... i'm 15 and i still love him... so much
+Quiggity Quooty you probably thought he was quitting and then looked up it and was fooled all leading up to writing this post. in hope that not everyone was that stupid.
Oh man, once me and a couple of friends took hour long shifts and beat this game. It took all night. Just so you know, the bus stop sign is only at the very beginning. Never appears again. Not once. And the bug that hits the window? Also happens once, about five hours in. It nearly caused us to crash it was so exciting/scary. What a game.
Oh man, you're my hero. It must've been one hell of a friendship experience. I'm surprised you and your friend's fingers didn't fall off from being necrosed.
Penn and Teller are geniuses. There arnt many entertainers as unique and consistent as they've been for almost 50 years. A "real life" driving game is hilarious.
KillerDreck89 I think they stopped the production of that almost a year ago here in Sweden. I was turning 6 around when the PS3 launched... I'm turning 16 this year.
@@IMN602 just because one word has been written a bit wrong doesn't mean he isn't capable of anything, and you put spaces before and after the comma, so by your logic, you shouldn't be capable of anything either.
Thing is though, this game was made with the intent to be bad from the start. It's not really like it was a game that was made on the cheap and no one cared. This game was made by people who wanted it to be bad and also show what would happen if , back in the 90s. moral guardians got their hands on games and tried to make them 'real' and 'safe'. *MUST RESIST URGE TO MAKE TOPICAL COMMENT*
Thomaskh7 Now that I have seen t though, it makes me wish it HAD been released way back when for REAL. Just to hear kids getting pissed off when they got this for Christmas....
Toasty Tofu It was made in response to moral guardians complaining that games were too violent and not realistic enough. Desert Bus is giving them what they wanted; a non-violent, realistic scenario. I mean, what could be more realistic than someone who has a job that requires them to keep constant attention focused on one thing such as driving at a continuous slow pace and when you mess you you are required to wait for the proper help to come and tow you back to whatever distance you previously came from. This is why I find the game hilarious in that it gives people what they claim they wanted and shows how badly it can go. It also showed how disconnected most of the critics were when they acted as if ALL video games had this problem as there as not a lack of non-violent games available when this game was made as several of our most loved video game series are NOT just about blood or whatever people claim is ruining the world. If anything, this game sort of foreshadowed the complaints that are still going on TODAY as critics still like to paint games with the broadest strokes they can without looking around to see there is more than what they think exist in games and they care more than capable of finding something that will entertain them.
Kamikaze I'm sure if the bus ride were 'fun' it would be deemed as unrealistic somehow. 'The bus driver is talking to one of his passengers! I bet he's thinking of harming them! HE'S A MONSTER!'
To this day I think Penn and Teller are the only living example of psychic people due to this single game. It's a parody of driving simulators that was made before driving simulators were ever released, then sealed away, only to be opened after the advent of games like Gran Turismo, so that upon its actual release into the public it makes perfect sense. It's like an elaborate way of sealing a letter saying "Gran Turismo will exist and we will have already made fun of it" and sending it to a P.O. box to be opened long after Gran Turismo came into existence. In my warped opinion, Desert Bus is the greatest trick they ever pulled. They made the laws of time and space their bitches just to poke fun at Gran Turismo. Who does that? Fuckin' Penn and Teller, trickster gods living amongst mere mortals solely to entertain them at their own collective expense, that's who.
It's like Euro Truck Simulator. Only with buses. Also bad. The irony? Euro Truck is proof that a realistic driving game can be fun - okay, it doesn't take eight hours to travel across Europe in it, but it IS fun.Especially when you see the mess some other people make of their trucks.
I've enjoyed all the AVGN episodes so much over the years, that a selfish part of me wishes the Nerd were still in his angry 20s, shooting one passionate episode after another. I just haven't gotten that same vibe from 30+ year old James and recent episodes felt a bit staged & scripted to me. Perhaps it is indeed time to move on to something different. There's an amazing legacy of awesome content to enjoy, so THANK YOU James! I hope your movie does well.
I think it's more an issue with running out of games to review. There are a lot of bad games out there but most games are just mediocre and don't really warrant a 20 minute episode and all that entails
The ending of this video is kind of wholesome. Kudos to all those modders out there who fix or improve old games, or even those who simply get them to run on modern computers.
As someone who has made this drive in real life I can confirm this is exactly what it is like.
but wrong because there are cars irl
“Just like the simulations.”
@@annieantichrist5987 so even worse
In real life, there are other cars, the decor may change a bit from time to time, you can listen to the radio or an iPod, you can talk to passengers if there are any, etc.
So if you stop to pee you are immediately hauled all the way back?
Todd Rogers got the highest score in Desert Bus by starting the bus in second gear.
Second gear?! theres a second gear?
Excuse me, what the fuck
Lolll
Only he gets the human element.
But Billy Mitchell sent in a tape to prove he had beaten Todd Rogers score!!!
Desert Bus for Hope still continues. In the 2019 run they raised $865,015.00. They marathon this game for roughly a week each year. Props to AVGN for calling them out in here.
Well shit good on them, they got my respect.
Calling them out? Or shouting them out?
Do they stream it?
Yep! They also made their own desert bus game that’s in vr! It’s also multiplayer, so your friends can be passengers in the bus!
For their 2020 virtual run (couldn't get together because of covid), they raised over a million dollars.
Nerd not drinking his beer because he's driving is a very nice touch.
😄😄😄
@shakerhuhThethugshakerMoron
Besides, drinking beer will make you want to take a leak later on.
@@Watcher3223that's why truck drivers keep gatorade bottles and milk jugs around
When he looked at the bottle, I really thought he was becoming aware of the bottle's second use when it's empty.
This is the biggest troll game in history.
Dark Jedi But Hong Kong 97 is bigger.
PrekiFromPoland or Darkwing Duck
Brandon Johnson Nah, I don't think so. It is just a game that happened to be bad. But Desert Bus or HK97 are troll games in all respects.
you are totally correct i agree with you 100%
Dark Jedi Nope.
There's Seamen, Big Rigs, Plumbers Don't Wear Ties, Hong Kong 97, etc.
Speed strats:
- Pressing left in the correct 2 frame window increases the bus's speed to 46 mph for 0.3 seconds.
- Double tapping the accelerator while pressing right in the correct 1 frame window will despawn the next rock on the side of the road which prevents lag. This is called "rock skipping"
- Watch out for the invisible kaizo block at mile #267
Matt Tate the what block
@TheOcelot 11 A Kaizo block is the name of invisible blocks in super mario romhacks. Ones that only appear when you jump up and hit them. Its a mario romhack/speedrunner term.
Matt Tate thanks
But remember, you also need to watch out for the Train Crossing at mile #64!
In case if you still don't know: it's a speedrunning joke.
792 hours? You can beat this game faster than you can unlock all of the content in Battlefront II.
The Game Dude Actually, you can just buy everything. For only $792.
@@applescruff1969
You mean $792,000 right?
@@anirudhviswanathan3986 Yup. Thanks for the correction.
@@SenseiSolo Looks like somebody doesn't get sarcasm.
You could beat it 792 times in fact
Fun fact: Someone remade the game as a map in Garry’s Mod.
someone also made a halo mod called desert hog
The owl man 400 and they made a v2 with all sorts of different hogs
Someone also did it for Mario Kart Wii.
Also there is a team fortress two one as well
Also gearbox software remade it in vr. Yes that gearbox software.
Jesus Christ! Even a real life 8 hour bus drive is more fun! At least in real life there are other vehicles, turns in the road, and a radio to listen to!
Useless Piece Of Human Flesh Not to mention that you're generally not the one driving the bus and you can take a nap, watch videos and occasionally stop for food and a toilet break.
I'm your 69th like
Don't forget your Game Boy
@@azrael6280 OK, I won't :P
I like real road trips since could see everything like Mountains, The Ocean, Buildings Forests, Etc.
Man, time really flies. It makes me happy to see new AVGN videos still going strong!
well if it isn't pbg!
PeanutButterGamer yes!! agreed ur awsome pbg
We can all agree buddy
Ouch lol
Hi
"Does your life have a pause control?"
No, but my car sure as fuck does, it's called a brake.
then the bus would be off schedule
@@mouthwide0pen No one isnt even on the bus so your fine.
@@mouthwide0pen >implying they're ever ON schedule
@@misa8286 its actually even illegal to work that many hours without breaks
You can always pull over for whatever reason so it does.
"Do your life have a pause control?"
Yes, it's called stopping and take a break, which you could very much do since you're the _only one_ on the bus! And on a road this long, I guarantee there would be places to stop for exactly that purpose. In real life, the bus would not go that slow, you would have music to listen to. They did not simulate real life, they simulated pain nobody would actually go through irl.
Yep. They should've had one radio station that kicks in when u get reception, cuts out for about a half hour then completely changes to another station with reception as you move along. Honestly if gta did that it would be rewarding
And that'w why German Bus/Truck Simulators are great
@@tarjaau tell that to AVGN
Could you just take your finger off of the accelerator button and just sit there in the road? Same thing, right?
@@mae2759 That's what I would do. I'd also program negative points if you took too many breaks or didn't take enough lol
Penn and Teller are magicians...they magically wizzed away your day.
Wow, you watch avgn.
Hai love your vids
Hey Pan.
Cool
“They made your time disappear!” I mean come on, how do you miss a joke so obvious!?!?
"Does your life have a stop button?"
No, but in real life I have the ability to stop the God damned bus!
Luke Sinclair yeah u can stop the bus in the game
Yeah... Try stopping the bus in the desert when when you have a bunch of passengers who are bored, hungry and have already broken the toilet.
^ But your bus doesn't have passengers
You get TOWED
Luke Sinclair Penn and Teller are assholes
I didn't cry in the Lion king. I didn't cry when Ol' Yeller died. I neary cried when he said he was going to retire.
GrapplingIgnorance You really have both sensitive and tough times when crying. Not at retirement?
GrapplingIgnorance I didn't because this is an old video and he made more
Unlike you, Miles still the old one, some of us watched this the week it came out because we weren't born yesterday.
You sound like a child with that comment.
U misspelled nearly
To all bus drivers out there, God bless your soul
Depending on the routes I take, and who I have on my bus, I wouldn’t mind being a bus driver
Travelings awesome
@@Jerry_Freestyle Travelling is exhausting
Dude imagine truck drivers
@@Jerry_Freestyle Better have AC silly, you don't wanna be glued to the seat.
@@Jerry_Freestyle Well more power to you cause I hate traveling. I do not travel well at all.
Fun fact:
There hasn’t been one AVGN video where James doesn’t say “sucks”/“suck”.
Even in Mario 3 where he actually liked the game the possesed game said "your mother sucks cocks"
@@wafflemanofficial3130 And then the Nerd swears, "What the FUCK did you just say?"
“This games sucks” may 2009
Because in the intro of every video he says "Shitty games that *Sucks* ass"
@@hoogis That's not James singing the song...
I wouldn't call this worse than Big Rigs personally. The difference is that Desert Bus was intended to be bad, an excuse we can't give to Big Rigs.
Big Rigs is fun to play though
Just because it's intentionally worse doesn't make the fact that it's worse untrue.
Even though Big Rigs is actually MORE of So bad it's good.
What makes Big Rigs superior to Desert Bus is the fact that it's just so enjoyably ridiculous. There are so many glitches that you can take advantage of to give you an hour or less of enjoyment.
Desert Bus is an existential nightmare that punishes you for trying to crack the system. Penn and Teller didn't create a game. They created a form of torture.
Think of it this way. Would you rather want to watch a long, dull movie that was intentionally dull to simulate real life in an office, or would you rather watch Tommy Wiseau's The Room, a movie that ended up being so shit that it turned out to be enjoyable to watch.
Fun fact: they remade the game in VR.
@Sailor Sedna it's on steam
@Sailor Sedna Joel from Vinesauce/Vargskelethor is streaming the game right now on twitch
but the wrecker is still sadistic.
the best parts of it are the multiplayer where you can join a persons bus and the radio playing a documentary on its creation
That would be sicking and unusual punishment to go through...
I guarantee when this initially released someone teared up at the ending thinking he was actually ending the show
I almost broke crying when he did the fakeout in the ljn ep
That may have been me
Over 100+ hours of gameplay 9/10 -IGN
Lol
+Jan Moors I wish GameTrailers and ScrewAttack was here. They'd know what to do.
Nah too much sand 0/8 soz m8
+miles payling
Anakin didn't like it
0/10 - ign
lmao
Desert bus tiger handheld. Its a perfect match.
Oh I loved those
What if Dessert bus was on the Magnavox Odyssey
nah, desert bus on virtual boy. The game and console combination that everyone has wanted since the virtual boy was released
Nah, bitch. R Zone.
Does that actually exist?
I love how the fuel gauge is always on "E" and the engine overheats instantly. A timeless classic
To think, this ten year anniversary episode will be ten years old itself next year. I almost don’t wanna believe it
And he's still putting out videos, pretty awesome
@slizzy6292 my man's a plagiarist now
@@thecannonball34What makes ya say that
10 years old
Thank you for not retiring, Nerd. For a brief nanosecond there I got scared.
This comment still has no replies but now it does
@@asdf-oh9ob This statement is fact.
Quintessential criticism
Now it has four
How to beat the game:
Step 1: Find friends
Step 2: Switch between each other player when the one who is playing is tired.
Step 3:Repeat Step 2
Jane Wilder if I were a friend, where would I hide ?
Sounds like an actual road trip.
I have a solution of a physical auto-beat:
Make a gear on a wheel that will slap the d-pad once in a while so it will go left as soon as it went too right.
Profit?
Step 4: all your friends abandon you
The nerd has been a part of my life for like 8 years .... When and if he makes a sad retirement video like he faked here I will tear up
The Nerd has been around half my LIFE. It's crazy, he's still GOIN'!
Long live Van Halen
Bah seen him since the beginning 15 years now
I remember his 2006 videos dropping when i was 10
Penn Teller predicted the future of simulator games
Desert Bus: the movie
Penn and Teller play two rival bus drivers who challenge each other to a race from Tueson to Las Vegas. On the way, they stay in touch with the radio and learn about love, life and the inevitability of death. They also encounter a psychotic hitchhiker played by Rutger Hauer. Also starring Sharon Stone and Michael Caine.
I'd watch it.
We've got ourselves a script.
Obscure Entertainment
May 28, 1999
5/28/1999
I would pay good money for this; I'd probably play the entire Desert Bus game if it meant this was at the end!
id watch that..
THE WHEELS ON THE BUS GO ROUND AND ROUND *for 8 hours*
ROUND AND ROUND AND ROUND AND ROUND AND ROUND AND ROUND AND ROUND AND ROUND AND ROUND AND ROUND AND ROUND AND ROUND AND ROUND AND ROUND AND ROUND AND ROUND AND ROUND AND ROUND AND ROUND AND ROUND AND ROUND AND ROUND AND ROUND AND ROUND AND ROUND AND ROUND AND ROUND AND ROUND AND ROUND AND ROUND AND ROUND AND ROUND AND ROUND AND ROUND AND ROUND AND ROUND AND ROUND AND ROUND
For straight
"And real life fuckin sucks!" Truer words have never been spoken.
True dat
Damn straight.
I want to get that tattooed on myself.
But ironically, Desert Bus became popular years later in the form of Euro Truck Simulator.
Except euro truck simulator has content, and gameplay, and really good graphics and sound assets.
Can't believe that his 20th anniversary will be in 3 years
Today :)
@@geramahar In less than a year, the show will be old enough to not drink while driving in the desert! 🤓
You better believe it now😂
Considering that everything in this game happens in real time, that tow truck got out to the bus pretty quickly. When you're stuck in the desert you usually have to wait another few hours for help to arrive. Or maybe Nerd just cut that part out...
Links Fraulein yes
Maybe the tow truck was driving right next to you the whole time?
Or maybe need reverse the footage and there was no tow truck
man if only you had the trucks from big rig for the trip
Then you could go in reverse and hit the 99 points limit in no time, You're Winner
@@TheGameBroswithSirhcandAr0n We're all winners.
Lol, now that would actually be fun!
SuperDonavanbros Gaming yes
@@Dcfan200 we winners
I don't like sand. It's coarse and rough and irritating and it gets everywhere.
And it falls through your fingers!
Not like you though!
I don't get the ref
@@giygaswashere2808 It's a quote from Anakin Skywalker said in the Star Wars prequels.
I think the funniest part of this game is that someone decided to port it to Mario Kart Wii as a custom track.
And your kart veers right too
"Does your life have a pause control?"
Does your bladder have a pause control?
Well yes actually, but It can’t pause for long.
@@NewSoupWiiHii Well, you're not wrong, I guess.
@@NewSoupWiiHii hey three Luigi's did you eat a double cherry lol😂
@michaelflash123's stuff For both sets of reproductive organs?
I can imagine EA Games Desert Bus. Only 20$ for DLC with Pause option.
Jeśli by to zrobił Capcom to wtedy to DLC byłoby na samym dysku.
Nope, that would be konami, just look at metal gear survives save slots
😂😂
Okay this is epic
Rain ur uncool
Great job on 10 years of Nerdness!
Why hi there Pat.
Yay it's Pat!
9
Bruh
20
10 years later and 10 years ago
*grabs beer*
I'm driving.
*put the beer back*
*Writes stupid comments*
Writes*
*Stupid comment is posted*
*Hater joins the chat, writes their retaliation*
Writes
*Posts it*
At least hes telling us not to drink and drive
@@TheJoseluisperez1000 wow, you're considerably...
*_Toxic._*
ROAD SAFETY
I made this game into a screensaver. That about sums up the game.
AVGN: Dies while playing Desert Bus
Vinesauce: *pathetic.*
preciselyoffcenter the sad thing is I watched all of it I mean ALL OF IT
Angry swedish man
Silly Uncle Jobel
UNLIMITED PEE PEE
JOEL, JOEL!? Have you been playing the DuckTales theme again?
I can’t believe the Avgn series is almost 20 years old
Penn and Teller's Smoke & Mirrors port for the Nintendo Switch with Desert Bus included, who's with me?
Fuck you and your port BS. PC 4 lyfe
At least then you could play it on an actual bus.
@@Casanuda eat shit pc shit turd
Why Switch only? It's not even a Nintendo game. It was released on the Sega CD. They could totally release this on other platforms.
@@Casanuda it's a port if they put it on PC too lol
Even though it's been 10 years, I *STILL* get giddy every time I see a new AVGN episode in my sub box.
It's like Christmas morning. :D
Specially when you watch it on christmas
In the morning
It would be cool if James could get Penn and Teller to appear on the show in the future. They could review the other mini games in Smoke and Mirrors.
I love the current Desert Bus VR game lol you can join other people's games and just sit in the bus as they drive 😂
Oh, and Penn and Teller designed the game this way because they wanted it to be realistic? Well they made one mistake - surely a route from Arizona to Vegas would have at least _one_ petrol station, diner, public bathroom, side road and hitch-hiker along the way? It wouldn't just be 714km of nothing. Speaking of which, is it even possible to drive a bus for eight hours straight without needing to stop for petrol?
Links Fraulein Maybe a very efficient bus could drive for that long. I know cars can
hmmmm Spazer Lazer!
Links Fraulein you can't see it but there's a guy tied to the side of the bus that pours gas in when needed and the bus driver has a piss bag and a feeding tube
Diesel is a much more efficient fuel than gasoline.
Buses of that era generally did about 6 mpg and had a fuel tank of 120 gallons, the round trip in the game was 720 miles,,, everything works out.
The remake is now on Steam with VR support :)
This is the last episode with the old glasses
Yeah, and the firat time we saw the new glasses was AVGN: The Movie
Wow i just realized that how have i not noticed this
[*]
Yes he is agci comedy
I think that's terrible it took you a couple years to notice that Ben Taylor
“Has the word of the nerd been heard” literally got me so bad
Did that line have you dying from laughter too? 🤔➡️🤣
The most funniest thing is that the bus is constantly overheating and there is no fuel to power the engine for a 8 HOUR journey.
The bus is a Omega Bus
Desert bus 2 confirmed for Occulus Rift. No Joke
Lol oh but its true. Im not even trolling
+Константин Волков I think avgn only does retro games, the most modern game he's done is big rigs
In the big rigs video, he even says he doesn't usually do games from the current millennium
+Yuri Raslov unless we kept on requesting it. Like he said in his big rigs video.
Rly?
+Yuri Raslov Crazy Bus is a newer "game"
actually, yes life does have a stop button, its called Sleeping
If time continues, there is no pause
thats more like a skip button
@RF Gaming That's not pressing a pause button, that's smashing your console with a sledgehammer.
@Michael Persico Could you finish your sentence before posting? It's really du
That doesn't stop life dumb ass
9:35
👽 *Where did you learn to drive*
I just gained an obscene amount of respect for Penn and Teller.
In modern times, Desert Bus would be considered an awesome and deep indie game
Just like driving a truck tho
There's probably a hidden message too.
It has an android port. So if you're ever taking a long bus ride somewhere, you can SIMULATE THAT RIDE WHILE RIDING IT
Truck Simulator?
True
That ending!!! :D I really hope he shows a new trailer or hell, THE MOVIE at SGC 2014!!
Hi again, Nathaniel :)
Videogamer181 Hey buddy :)
Avgn should be in ur last frustration series episode Nathaniel Bandy
The guy swagin That would never happen XD I wish it could though!
In the future you are a great TH-camr for TH-cam
James- this is by far the best internet series ever. I mean that literally.
The fact you don’t have ten times the subs is criminal. You paved the wave for so many youtubers.
So many people can probably attribute success to what you started and continue to do. You’ve inspired so many. I hope you never quit this. Your videos are so rewatchable. Keep it up man, we all love you!
Butters this seems like the type of thing someone's parents would ground them for watching
Butters you're grounded
twister man Aw geez dad
Maybe one day he'll review Hello Kitty Island Adventure.
BrownSugar1980 my favorite
The word of the nerd, has been heard!
Best line ever XD
420 likes
The Pen and Teller Bullshit series is absolutely awesome \m/
I agree. I have seen some episodes and all that I have seen I agree with and are very well thought out.
OMG I loveyour videos sins you are soawesome!
Agreed as well. Even the few I don't agree with in their entirety still make extremely valid sub-points and are extremely entertaining (such as the second-hand smoke episode).
Peter Richmond don't stop I put 5 years of my life and now its over fuck
funny seeing you here lol
I guess the only way to beat this game would be to pay several people to drive the bus for you at certain shifts. A day shift and a night shift. LOL
maybe during a marathon of sorts
His hairline may recede, but his anger shall never.
I guess you can say this game *drove* him crazy
Almost like this joke was intentionally bad...
YEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAH!!!!!
Pun intended...
Fuck you.
*insert rimshot here*
"The word of the Nerd has been heard!"
Classic!!
It's like poetry, it rhymes.
Fun fact: Absolute went out of business because of all the booze they bought to forget they made Desert Bus.
+Notgonnatellyou notgonnasayit best burn ever
it's a joke mini game. you know...like if Andy Kaufman designed a video game.
+Karl trembath Who the fuck's Andy Kaufman..?
+Notgonnatellyou notgonnasayit Absolutely copied Sierra's logo
gr8 b8 m8 I'll r8 it an 8
10:59 the piano rendition of the AVGN theme song is brilliant!
After watching Joel for 8 hours drive that damn bus through the desert I just had to rewatch this
I like your icon.
@@ZombifiedBuizel thank you! I like yours as well! Buizel is great
Eyyy vargskelethor fan
@@rr0binx same here, my favourite of the Vinesauce crew
This bus is so slow, when it is about to hit someone, they Dodge the bus by slowly walking away. Even snails and turtles are faster than this bus.
And it takes 2 weeks to digest the food
"does your life have pause control?"
Yes it does,it called resting,take a break.
Penn and Teller are bloody trolls.
+hisyam amiruddin Can you pause whenever you want in your life?
I truly love it that Penn and Teller saw Takeshi's Challenge, and said, "Hold our beers."
"The show must go on!"
I honestly almost cried.
If the purpose of this game is to be an example why we need fantasy, imaginary magical things in games that are not just real life, it works!
To me one of the coolest things about the nerd is that I literally aged with him. I've been following him since 2004, and through a lot of rough moments in my life I knew I could just watch a nerd episode and that would just make me forget about everything. Idk why, but seeing the nerd being frustrated and giving games the finger is almost what you wish you could do to life itself. Watching his game collection and video quality grow, as well as his ambitions towards the whole thing (movie) is so great.
You're awesome James. Hopefully with the nerd movie you'll get the full attention you deserve and maybe have your own retro-gaming tv show!
luke rush
Would you believe me if i said i started watching his videos when i was 5 YEARS OLD? And his videos helped me to learn english, since it isn't my native language, and now... i'm 15 and i still love him... so much
5:22 "This is a fucking 8 hour game."
My favorite funny line.
so this is what cyberpunk 2077 look better than this...
😂😂😂
This is one of the original troll games.
I hope nobody seriously thought he was quitting.
+Emmett Brown We gotta go back to the future to find out!
+Quiggity Quooty you probably thought he was quitting and then looked up it and was fooled all leading up to writing this post. in hope that not everyone was that stupid.
I spent 6 hours trying to figure out my username
No, I KNEW he wasn't quitting.
I spent 6 hours trying to figure out my username
No feeding trolls.
Quiggity Quooty eat hair
Oh man, once me and a couple of friends took hour long shifts and beat this game. It took all night. Just so you know, the bus stop sign is only at the very beginning. Never appears again. Not once. And the bug that hits the window? Also happens once, about five hours in. It nearly caused us to crash it was so exciting/scary. What a game.
damn, that must have sucked
Oh man, you're my hero. It must've been one hell of a friendship experience. I'm surprised you and your friend's fingers didn't fall off from being necrosed.
Beat the game? You mean got a point.
_"It took all night."_
Apparently nights are 792 hours long now.
ViKing Games it would be if they did it 99 times
Penn and Teller are geniuses. There arnt many entertainers as unique and consistent as they've been for almost 50 years. A "real life" driving game is hilarious.
"but where do i go from here?"
*You go to do mike & james mondays constantly and once or twice a year another AVGN episode*
he probably referred to the movie?
+Leo B He did
AVGN In A Nutshell
you're so right...
It's basically Mikes channel now.
7th gen consoles are now as old as 5th gen were when AVGN started! :O
Holy Fuck
You nearly make me cry for just saying that.
I heard Sony stopped the production of the PS3 in New Zealand recently.
KillerDreck89 I think they stopped the production of that almost a year ago here in Sweden. I was turning 6 around when the PS3 launched... I'm turning 16 this year.
TheBcoolGuy I was around 12 when it was launched. Now I'm 22, and I see the production ending in 1 or 2 years.
KillerDreck89 It has ended in a lot of places already.
I'm gonna start my speedrunning carrer with this game.
Well, it's the same
You can't spell , not a good start
@@IMN602 Actually, it probably is. He sounds like he could drive a bus.
@@IMN602 just because one word has been written a bit wrong doesn't mean he isn't capable of anything, and you put spaces before and after the comma, so by your logic, you shouldn't be capable of anything either.
It’s funny it’s 8 hours, this video has 8m views and it was 8 years ago
and it was uploaded in may 28
Thing is though, this game was made with the intent to be bad from the start. It's not really like it was a game that was made on the cheap and no one cared. This game was made by people who wanted it to be bad and also show what would happen if , back in the 90s. moral guardians got their hands on games and tried to make them 'real' and 'safe'.
*MUST RESIST URGE TO MAKE TOPICAL COMMENT*
I don't think anyone thought it was a real game or like was supposed to be a good game
Thomaskh7
Now that I have seen t though, it makes me wish it HAD been released way back when for REAL. Just to hear kids getting pissed off when they got this for Christmas....
Meredith Caudle This. Plus it makes fun of people who complain about games being not realistic enough.
Toasty Tofu It was made in response to moral guardians complaining that games were too violent and not realistic enough. Desert Bus is giving them what they wanted; a non-violent, realistic scenario. I mean, what could be more realistic than someone who has a job that requires them to keep constant attention focused on one thing such as driving at a continuous slow pace and when you mess you you are required to wait for the proper help to come and tow you back to whatever distance you previously came from.
This is why I find the game hilarious in that it gives people what they claim they wanted and shows how badly it can go. It also showed how disconnected most of the critics were when they acted as if ALL video games had this problem as there as not a lack of non-violent games available when this game was made as several of our most loved video game series are NOT just about blood or whatever people claim is ruining the world. If anything, this game sort of foreshadowed the complaints that are still going on TODAY as critics still like to paint games with the broadest strokes they can without looking around to see there is more than what they think exist in games and they care more than capable of finding something that will entertain them.
Kamikaze
I'm sure if the bus ride were 'fun' it would be deemed as unrealistic somehow.
'The bus driver is talking to one of his passengers! I bet he's thinking of harming them! HE'S A MONSTER!'
To this day I think Penn and Teller are the only living example of psychic people due to this single game. It's a parody of driving simulators that was made before driving simulators were ever released, then sealed away, only to be opened after the advent of games like Gran Turismo, so that upon its actual release into the public it makes perfect sense. It's like an elaborate way of sealing a letter saying "Gran Turismo will exist and we will have already made fun of it" and sending it to a P.O. box to be opened long after Gran Turismo came into existence. In my warped opinion, Desert Bus is the greatest trick they ever pulled. They made the laws of time and space their bitches just to poke fun at Gran Turismo. Who does that? Fuckin' Penn and Teller, trickster gods living amongst mere mortals solely to entertain them at their own collective expense, that's who.
i met penn and teller in vegas. theyre wonderful people and really funny!
too bad they are 9/11 shills
The real shame is the fact that they're reptillians..................................
J Venom f*ck you you f*ckin d*ck
Ash Hooks , do you want to be banned for swearing, or do you keep swearing and get banned
Teresa Guinea lucky bastard!
"So if you've driven seven hours, does it take seven hours for the game to start over??"
Uncle Jobel knows all about that
It's like Euro Truck Simulator. Only with buses. Also bad.
The irony? Euro Truck is proof that a realistic driving game can be fun - okay, it doesn't take eight hours to travel across Europe in it, but it IS fun.Especially when you see the mess some other people make of their trucks.
Does this mean we are finally going to get his E.T. review!?!
I've enjoyed all the AVGN episodes so much over the years, that a selfish part of me wishes the Nerd were still in his angry 20s, shooting one passionate episode after another. I just haven't gotten that same vibe from 30+ year old James and recent episodes felt a bit staged & scripted to me. Perhaps it is indeed time to move on to something different. There's an amazing legacy of awesome content to enjoy, so THANK YOU James! I hope your movie does well.
Yeah man James is tired I think of doing video game reviews. He has a family now.
No, I never want AVGN to stop, EVER!!
Speedwagon thinks this young man is foolish...
I think it's more an issue with running out of games to review. There are a lot of bad games out there but most games are just mediocre and don't really warrant a 20 minute episode and all that entails
TheCartoonZone Why are you saying it's a fiasco?
The ending of this video is kind of wholesome. Kudos to all those modders out there who fix or improve old games, or even those who simply get them to run on modern computers.
The game is a prank and should be taken as such. Pretty effective, I say.
I bought Desert Bus as part of one of the Humble Indies Bundles for Android.
I didn't known that it was that old and have such a story behind it !
Encore la :D
If you wanna pause the game
why don't you
stop the bus
do what you need to do
and then come back
and continue
+Jan M i dont think you can stop
Flame of Udun There is a reason why he had to use something to keep pressing the button, isn't there?
Jan M good point lol
+Jan M If you do stop, your bus gets toe'd. :/
Alexis Fillmore lol
Funny the video starts in 2004, the videos takes place in 2014, and i’m commenting here in 2024. 👍🏻
The nerd is back to his best form!
Yeah finally that what I was waiting for it
Hello from 2017
The nerd is still going at still amazing yay
the show must go on ! :D
if this game says call of duty on the front cover ign would give it a 9 out of 10
2:17
Hold on a second. Did that just say 'Mofo, the psychic gorilla'!?
Yup
The Ugly Barnacle I
The Ugly Barnacle Moto
Lol
Yes
Video: Ten years ago.
Also video: Ten years old