In the early 1990s, Penn and Teller tried to make Penn & Teller's Smoke and Mirrors, a collection of mini games designed for the Sega CD. The game was completed but never released, but eventually it leaked. Now it's mostly remembered for one mini game in particular: the monotonous, Dadaist experience known as Desert Bus. But because the world is occasionally a lovely place, Desert Bus has become the catalyst for the internet's longest-running charity, Desert Bus for Hope.

Starting Saturday, November 14, Desert Bus for Hope, a group formed out of the sketch comedy group Loading Ready Run, has been playing Desert Bus nonstop. The organization's play time is influenced by viewer donations, all of which go to the charity Child's Play, an organization which gives games and toys to children's hospitals. As of this writing, that bus is going to be running until at least 143 hours.

Over the charity's eight-year history, it's raised over $2.4 million.

In Desert Bus, a player has to drive a tour bus from Las Vegas to Los Angeles. Only the bus handles like a broken shopping cart, ever sliding to the right, and, like in real life, the drive lasts roughly eight hours. It was designed, according to Jillette, as a topical joke, a response to concerns about violent videogames in American policymaking in the form of the most dry, dull experience imaginable. In this goal, it succeeded.

As they stream their play, the crew will be hosting guests, fielding call-ins, and doing everything possible to entertain themselves and their viewers as that bus moseys down the repeating pixel desert. Down, and slightly to the right.