Pimped Out GamerBus Brings Mobile LAN to Your Hood

Buses for the most part are lame (especially here in New York), but pack one with a ton of Xbox 360s and a few HDTVs and you've got my full attention. The GamerBus is a 37-foot RV that lets you and a bunch of friends duke it out via its 16 System-Linked Xbox 360s. Each of the 16 game stations is hooked up to a 23-inch Philips LCD making it dead simple to play against or with your friends. The bus only services the Virginia Beach area and charges $150/hour (Fri-Sun) and $125/hour (Mon-Thurs). Not a bad way to kill some time. Now all I need are some friends.

Keep reading for additional bus shots.

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11:31 AM on Mon Nov 20 2006
By Louis Ramirez
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qbix at 11:53 AM on 11/20/06
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I'd rather go to Howies. 15 bucks and I can play all day... or all day and night if it's friday :)

http://www.tgdaily.com/2006/05/26/howies_game_shack/
Geisrud at 12:01 PM on 11/20/06
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Is that price ($150) per person, or for the whole thing? If you divide it up, that's <$10/ person.

Oh, and what's the Pizza/Doritos and Mt. Dew policy?
kakashisan at 12:28 PM on 11/20/06
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Why does the last pic look photoshopped?
5kw3r1 at 12:37 PM on 11/20/06
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This sounds like a great concept, but at $150 that is waaay out of my league. Personally I do not play Xbox, but say if this were CS:S foggetaboutit! And where are the headphones??

A couple hours of play and you could have spent that well earned money on your own system that you could charge others $145 per hour!
phantam at 12:39 PM on 11/20/06
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from what i understand its 145$ an hour for the BUS not per person... its for people to rent out for lan parties... its about 8-9$ an hour for a full house per person not bad at all
LD at 01:14 PM on 11/20/06
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Could have at least made a tidy install and hidden the cables.
camp6ell at 01:15 PM on 11/20/06
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hey, the M14A is awesome!
HotShotNN at 02:00 PM on 11/20/06
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Great! Nov 22nd is booked by a church!
Geisrud at 03:18 PM on 11/20/06
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@5kw3r1 CS is one of their game options:

From TFA:

What games are available?
Blazing Angels, Gears of War, Forza Motorsport, MotoGP '06, Amped 2, Counter Strike, and of course, Halo2.
pratt-stick at 04:18 PM on 11/20/06
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lol you weren't kidding about the church booking! In fact, this is their second booking! People, tithe more so your local church can book it too!
rimplestultskin at 04:55 PM on 11/20/06
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they should leave the extra controller ports open, so the end of the ride could leave the bus smelling like 64 xbox nerds and a months' supply of frappuccinos and bawls. and just replace the seats with benches to accomodate all the extra people.

then develop a homebrew system where you put in one xbox 360 disc and it lets all 16 systems simoultaneously play it, maybe have enough RAM to hold 16 game discs so there's no lag when multiple consoles go to read the disc. then i can bring my pre-release copy of halo 3 and have a kickass w00tx0rz party.