Gamers Play Terrible Penn & Teller Game for Charity

November 20th, 2009 admin

Did Penn and Teller ever imagine that the unreleased Sega CD game bearing their images would raise nearly $100,000 for charity? On Friday, the masochistic sketch comedians from LoadingReadyRun will play one of the must punishing videogames ever created: For the third year running, Desert Bus For Hope will collect donations for Child’s Play charity , an organization that provides games and toys to children’s hospitals. They’ll play a marathon-length session of the infamous “Desert Bus” mini game from Penn & Teller’s Smoke and Mirrors . The “Desert Bus” sequence is notorious because it recreates the drive between Tucson and Las Vegas in real time…


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