Ars Technica's staffers have attended enough gaming and tech expos to drink VR's Kool-Aid, but we're not kidding ourselves. We know the upcoming wave of virtual reality headsets, from companies like Sony, HTC, and Oculus, will likely enjoy "niche" status in their earliest days, thanks to high prices and a lack of major mainstream demand.
In the case of at least one upcoming VR game project, that niche issue will be just fine—because it's possibly the "niche"-ist game imaginable. Gearbox Software co-founder Randy Pitchford and comedian Penn Jillette recently announced work on a VR version of Desert Bus, arguably the most boring video game ever made—originally a jab at censor-happy American legislators like Janet Reno in the early '90s. (I wrote at length about Desert Bus and its wacky charity offspring for Polygon in 2012.)
Long story short, the game was intentionally awful, which led to its inadvertent cult fanbase, and Desert Bus' virtual reality version will probably be just as much of a joke. That got us thinking: what other existing video game properties, when ported to VR, could reach similar so-bad-it's-good status?
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