I’m not sure when it will end, hopefully never. As it stands we have gone off the road twice, once in the first 20min we were paid $500 by Eddie Gorodetsky (one of the concept originators). And Sadly again around the 2day 5hour 50min mark our driver cam went down and we became distracted. This unfortunate turn will not dampen our spirits, we will go on! We will complete the journey!
UPDATE: As of 2days 10hours and 23min there have been 3 crashes. In the early morning the driver drifted off to sleep and drifted off the road.
Oh no, bye bye desert bus world record! Unless the donations actually WILL never stop…
GO GO BUS MANIACS!!!
Comment by STROMKOPF — November 26, 2007 @ 7:00 am
Did you reset the game?
You must have had… 6 points! What a shame
Next year you should do $1 for 1 point.
Comment by Shambles — November 26, 2007 @ 7:05 am
Yes we all know about the crash, but it’s behind them and they are still going strong.
Comment by Tim — November 26, 2007 @ 7:07 am
As far as we know, it is still a record at 6
Comment by James — November 26, 2007 @ 8:05 am
Yeah, the only other “record” on file is an SA forumite’s 12 points, but… screenshot or it didn’t happen. These guys are setting the record now.
Comment by HeXcoda — November 26, 2007 @ 8:26 am
Can I make a complaint?
I was just noticing that you are very close to getting 100 hours, and I realized that the counter goes in days, but the amount donated goes in hours.
Confusing!
Comment by Em — November 26, 2007 @ 8:54 am
There’s 24 hours in a day. Just remember that and you’ll be fine : )
Comment by Michiel — November 26, 2007 @ 8:57 am
This is truly the greatest game-related charity I have ever had the pleasure of witnessing! Keep up the good… uh… driving!
This should become an annual event
Comment by Matt Rideout — November 26, 2007 @ 8:59 am
So, the first crash was 17 minutes in, and the 3rd crash just happened.. what was the second crash?
Comment by Lyph3 — November 26, 2007 @ 9:02 am
My first comment actually was for the second crash, which happend 5 hours before the 3rd crash, as the text above says…
Thought that 12 point record was real, hope it isn’t, so LRR holds it now. Guess noone really knows. At least they made the One-Three-Three-Seven!
Comment by STROMKOPF — November 26, 2007 @ 9:25 am
As someone else remarked:
The night/dusk and no daylight – bug has never been documented, but was very obvious.
Seems like proof no one has ever played this game for more than 2 or 3 points.
It would have been noticed and mentioned. It’s not like there’s much to tell. Even the bugsplat becomes an ‘event’.
Comment by Michiel — November 26, 2007 @ 9:29 am
One of my coworkers just returned from the long (US) weekend and complained that “30 hours in the car just wiped me out.” I thought, “wuss.”
Comment by Sarah — November 26, 2007 @ 10:16 am
This is really lame. here they are talking about getting it done for the kids non stop for two days and on the third day it falls apart. Way to let down the kids guys. The counter should be reset to 0 for crashing the bus “for the kids”
Comment by Bob — November 26, 2007 @ 10:26 am
Too bad about the third crash, but don’t give up hope! At the end of it all just tally up all the points received as a “total points accumulated”.
Comment by Matt — November 26, 2007 @ 10:33 am
Oh my god, this is crazy what people can do!
Comment by The End Boss — November 26, 2007 @ 11:12 am
The crashes mean NOTHING! It’s all about the endurance. And the cold, hard cash for the sick kids! Best charity event ever.
Comment by McCorvic — November 26, 2007 @ 11:13 am
how can you say the crashes mean nothing? What kind of endurace match doesnt fail when the person who should be enduring falls asleep?
Comment by Bob — November 26, 2007 @ 11:37 am
A forgiving charity endurance match.
Comment by Shambles — November 26, 2007 @ 12:12 pm
Tell you what Bob, you do 90 hours non-stop whining about them crashing and I’ll sponsor you a $1 to STFU?
Comment by rootbeerbaby — November 26, 2007 @ 12:13 pm
Dude, people screw up and they mess up. But what do you do? Do you give up hope? No! Did Terry Fox give up hope despite having cancer and having to lose his leg (which lets concider, for purposes of the metephorical to be a crash)? No! Did the British in world war two give up hope when Germany basicly bombed their cities to smitherienes(basicly, in london, one church was one of the only things that survived…according to my history prof)? No! Do the indie 500 race car drives give up even though they might be in last place for about 90% of the race? No! They keep driving keep pushing it…. and some actually move far.
Those who are last sometimes become first. Those who fall, their true glory is in their endurance and recovery and bravery against those who would otherwise lose and give up.
Keep fighting men! This is your Blitz, your inde 500. Your Terry Fox run! (i don’t care if the metephors don’t work and some ass might be like “Oh… what a horrible reference for people playing video games straight”…. but dudes, you can do it. FIght, survive. Do it for the kids. Do it for all these haters out here that think you don’t have the balls to keep going. You can do it LLR. I belive in you guys.
Comment by Krz — November 26, 2007 @ 12:15 pm
You guys are awesome. This is a great idea and you’re really doing a good thing for the kids.
Keep on busin’.
Comment by Lleu — November 26, 2007 @ 1:21 pm
I don’t know what people are getting in a twist over. They can crash 100 times for all I care. It’s the act of playing this awful game non stop that qualifies as the fundraiser. Crashing or not crashing is an irrelevant detail that doesn’t really matter.
Comment by Spyhop — November 26, 2007 @ 1:26 pm
Crashing the bus is unfairly exciting for them. If they’re going to be that crazy they might as well play sonic the hedgehog or something.
Comment by Shambles — November 26, 2007 @ 1:49 pm
great going guys/gals – guess it’s okay to drive the bus on the left side of the road????:-O
Comment by testy — November 26, 2007 @ 2:18 pm
Can you really call it a crash if the bus only goes 45 MPH on an EMPTY road? Who cares — the hours complete (and the charity) is what is important. What is more amazing is that the Sega CD has not died yet. Try that with an Xbox 360! It would overheat and red ring.
Comment by Nate Manderfeld — November 26, 2007 @ 2:42 pm
My eye keeps going up to the banner image: The 1st Annual DESERT BUS for Hope.
You guys are going to have to do it again next year. And somebody should prepare a 100-hour Ultimate Desert Bus Super Drivin’ Mix.
Comment by Jon — November 26, 2007 @ 2:44 pm
Have just donated. This is WELL worth at least a day’s pay. You guys keep on’ bussing!
Comment by Guillaume Tremblay Beaumont — November 26, 2007 @ 2:52 pm
What would be cool is if next year there were some kind of corporate sponsor that would donate and extra $500 dollars or something if they could do the whole thing without crashing.
Adds a whole new (and contemporary) meaning to “Keep on truckin’!”
Comment by McCorvic — November 26, 2007 @ 3:08 pm
I told you people, keep Kate AWAY from the wheel!
Comment by HowardJohnson — November 26, 2007 @ 3:43 pm
You guys inspired me to do a remake of Desert Bus for PCs. Keep it going!
Comment by Mr Fancy-Pants — November 26, 2007 @ 4:18 pm
I think the ammount per hour should be capped at 200$, so as not to stifle donations towards the end.
Comment by Gamecraze — November 26, 2007 @ 4:44 pm
Donating is the right thing to do, to help the kids.
But is it ok I derive a sick sort of pleasure from keeping these poor souls tethered to that bus?
And I don’t care about crashes, as someone above said, it’s more about sitting there, playing freaking Desert Bus for… ever.
Come on guys, let’s donate enough to keep these guys playing till next Child’s Play!
Comment by Vulture — November 26, 2007 @ 5:12 pm
I nominate VNV Nation’s “Perpetual” for that Ultimate Super Drivin’ Mix. ^_~
Comment by zanbowser — November 26, 2007 @ 6:14 pm
if its a propper roadtrip mix, it needs a few novelty songs which are awsome the first few times, but after the 30th time they just grate on you… signs of a good roadtrip mix
as for the driving, good on you guys… although i do like the idea of the donating for a number of points system. then you have to drive untill you get 6, 12 or even 50 points ke ke ke
Comment by aeon — November 26, 2007 @ 8:44 pm
Thanks for the informative article. It made me think up some things.
Comment by Reseda Charity — March 7, 2008 @ 3:40 pm