Show HN: America – Road Trip Simulator

Re:Show HN: America – Road Trip Simulator by antognini on Saturday October 15, 2022 @06:20PM (#33219185)

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.

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Re:Show HN: America – Road Trip Simulator by devin on Saturday October 15, 2022 @06:28PM (#33219241)

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.

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Re:Show HN: America – Road Trip Simulator by dudul on Saturday October 15, 2022 @06:24PM (#33219214)

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

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Re:Show HN: America – Road Trip Simulator by PebblesRox on Sunday October 16, 2022 @07:58AM (#33222913)

Was it possible to pull over or stop the bus?

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Re:Show HN: America – Road Trip Simulator by dudul on Sunday October 16, 2022 @09:04AM (#33223300)

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

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Re:Show HN: America – Road Trip Simulator by netsharc on Saturday October 15, 2022 @07:41PM (#33219688)

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

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Re:Show HN: America – Road Trip Simulator by herval on Saturday October 15, 2022 @08:11PM (#33219868)

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

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Re:Show HN: America – Road Trip Simulator by Sakos on Saturday October 15, 2022 @08:34PM (#33220001)

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

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Re:Show HN: America – Road Trip Simulator by xivzgrev on Saturday October 15, 2022 @10:47PM (#33220637)

Wow that is really awful - thanks for sharing

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Re:Show HN: America – Road Trip Simulator by mapster on Sunday October 16, 2022 @12:55AM (#33221135)

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

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Re:Show HN: America – Road Trip Simulator by userbinator on Sunday October 16, 2022 @01:43AM (#33221322)

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

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

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Re:Show HN: America – Road Trip Simulator by rezna on Sunday October 16, 2022 @03:13AM (#33221734)

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

It got modernized ;-)

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Re:Show HN: America – Road Trip Simulator by shever73 on Sunday October 16, 2022 @03:13AM (#33221735)

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

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Re:Show HN: America – Road Trip Simulator by PeterisP on Sunday October 16, 2022 @08:04AM (#33222946)

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.

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Re:Show HN: America – Road Trip Simulator by thrillgore on Sunday October 23, 2022 @01:29AM (#33304815)

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-...

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