From Weekend Edition Saturday: Terrible Video Game, Great Fundraiser: Meet Desert Bus For Hope
“You stay in the left-hand lane until the torment ends,” Kathleen de Vere says, “and then you do it again.”
This rotten game was created in the mid-’90s by the magicians Penn and Teller as a satire on video games. Eight years ago, members of LoadingReadyRun— an online comedy group in British Columbia — discovered it.
They thought a live online marathon Desert Bus session would be fun, and could raise money for Child’s Play — a charity supporting hospitals and domestic abuse shelters. And thus was born Desert Bus for Hope, the world’s dullest telethon.
“The first year we raised $22,000 and were sort of like, ‘I guess we’re doing this every year,’ ” says Graham Stark, de Vere’s co-pilot for this shift.
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