They sure don’t make games like they used to: Slashdot links to a site that has found a long lost Penn and Teller game. (Something Awful also has info, including screenshots)
“The most infamous part was ‘Desert Bus,’ a ‘VeriSimulator’ in which you drive a bus across the straight Nevada desert for eight hours in real-time. Then you drive it home. Also, I’d read the bus veers to the right, so you can’t just leave the joypad propped up. The rumor was that if you won the game, you got one point. I’d assumed for years that the entire thing was a hoax, but last September, Frank Cifaldi (founder of Lost Levels) received a backup CD-ROM made by a fellow videogame writer of a review copy he’d received a decade earlier.
And you thought grinding for exp was bad!
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