Hey, Audrey - can you pass along a question to whoever wants to answer it?

I am living in a new city for four months for an internship and met up tonight with a good internet friend for dinner. Back in the day, he was a video game programmer and worked on some pretty cool games. When he came over to pick me up I had Bullshit playing so he told me a story of an E3 conference he did "years and years ago" where Penn and Teller were working some game developer or other's booth. He couldn't remember which developer, but he did remember that they were very funny and somehow beans were going into Penn's nose and coming out his ears. He said they stole the conference and were way more popular than all the hot chicks the other developers had hired to work their booths.

My friend will not disclose to me his age. I know this conference was near the beginning of his career. I was wondering if I could get any info on what general span of dates P&T were hiring themselves out to work booths at game conferences.

Once I know that, I'll be able to figure everything out about my friend.

Thanks!

Sounds interesting. Could it have been around the time of Smoke and Mirrors? I don't know off the top of my head when that was, but judging by Penn's earing and glasses and Teller's fantastic hair I'd say early 90's? Although I'm sure they could have been doing corporates for game developers before then.

Anyway, here is the bean trick as performed at some Sony thing in Las Vegas.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=KwEVQbIoTFM

It's a cool trick. to my knowledge, he also performed it on Howard Stern and with Teller on episode 1 of The Unpleasent World.

Cheers

Jamie

*The best song ever written goes G D A D.
You can figure out which one I mean.*

Hi Libbie,

I forwarded your question to Penn and he said:

"We did a game for Absolute called "Penn & Teller: Smoke and Mirrors." "Desert Bus" was part of that.

For a bunch of very sad reasons the game never came out.

But, I think we did a few things to pimp it. This must have been one of those.

I would guess Early 90's."

Sincerely,
Audrey



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Aha!! That must have been it.

Desert Bus is still the best idea anybody in game developing has ever had. I'm going to ask my pal if he's ever heard of it.