Desert Bus as an existential gut punch

I’ve been long fascinated with Penn and Teller’s Smoke and Mirrors collection of minigames. Among them Desert Bus holds a special albeit equally obscure place. It is beyond any measures of common sense. While Desert Bus was never conceived to be anything else than a joke or something remotely thoughtful and it is widely mocked as the most pointless piece of gaming ever – for me it has one quite fascinating unintended consequence.
This video shows its gameplay. But you