YMMV / Penn and Teller's Smoke and Mirrors

• Bile Fascination: The main reason for Desert Bus's popularity.
• Cult Classic: While Desert Bus was considered by many to be long and boring, it nevertheless mustered a cult following, even spawning the charity group Desert Bus for Hope.
• Dancing Bear: The only appeal of Desert Bus is that it goes on forever with nearly nothing happening.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: Desert Bus was mostly constructed as a means of creating a boring, long game that simulates Real Life to a T. Come several years later, and try counting the amount of "Simulator" games that serve almost exactly the same purpose. Or counting recreations of the Desert Bus in various other platforms such as Doom, Super Mario 64, Garry's Mod, and Team Fortress 2.
• Memetic Mutation: Desert Bus. To such an extent that it's the only reason some people know of Smoke and Mirrors in the first place.
• So Bad, It's Good: None of the games in this collection are really great, but the trademark humor coming from Penn and Teller brings joy into them.
• Watch It for the Meme: Desert Bus is by far the most well-known game in the collection.

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