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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."
Yeah, I would probably like it. I like repetitive things.
Yeah, I would probably like it. I like repetitive things.
Yeah, I would probably like it. I like repetitive things.
Yeah, I would probably like it. I like repetitive things.
Yeah, I would probably like it. I like repetitive things.
I would prefer to just call it "bullshit".
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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.
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Since I can't e-mail you, I'll post a reply here.
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I remember O.G.R.E., that was a great game. Had it for the Atari ST myself. I did a little searching after reading your post, and I've found the following links:
Commodore 64 version (is there a C64 emu for Linux?):
http://www.download-full-games.com/c64/games/ogre
A "lite" version of the original board game:
http://www.sjgames.com/ogre/resources/
http://www.sjgames.com/ogre/resources/ogrelite.pd
A possible connection to the Atari ST version - this page has a list of disk images, each file appears to contain several games. I don't know what to do with this file to extract the games within, but the site mentions using the STEEM emulator, so maybe that will do it for you? Anyways, OGRE is almost halfway down the page, in file A_202:
http://steem.atari.st/automation.htm
Or direct to the file:
ftp://ftp.cs.tu-berlin.de/pub/atari/games/Automat
For possible help using the file, here's a blog entry from a few months ago - this guy has been running the game from this file under a different emu (SainT), so maybe you can pick his brain for assistance:
http://scottobear.livejournal.com/tag/atari
I'm sorry I couldn't actually find the DOS version, but I know from experience the ST version is great, and the C64 will probably be easy for you to run. Good luck!
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If you want to play old boardgames / wargames PBEM style, check out Cyberboard. It has an OGRE / GEV module, as well as modules for many other games (ASL, 18xx, Columbia block games etc.).
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