Penn and Teller's Long Lost Game

Waxy.org has some good news for Penn and Teller Fans. They have Smoke and Mirrors, a long lost Penn and Teller game. The game is available for download, and features (among other things) a bus drive across the Nevada desert as one of the title's mini-games. From the article: "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. He posted extensive screenshots and a review to the Something Awful Forums. He eventually added a torrent, but it's long since dead."

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[jnaujok]

They do this trick now in their Vegas show, but they've upped the ante. They drop a plastic "line" across the stage, and from that moment, no one goes from one side of the line to the other. Then they bring out *two* guns, with *two* bullets, have a different audience member mark each one (never crossing sides) and then they go to opposite sides of the stage, pull back *all* the curtains so you can see the prop cages backstage (and so that clearly no one is running things behind the curtains) and then exchange fire through a sheet of glass on each side (both shatter) and each one catches the other one's bullet in their mouth. Then they show the bullet to the other side's signer (again, without anyone crossing the center line) and "tadah" they're the right bullet.

Great trick. I've seen it twice live in Vegas, and although I thought I caught part of the "trick" the first time, they dropped the back curtain for the second show and ruined the idea I had for the whole "trick".

Definitely worth seeing, as it's the finale of a great show.