New Urinal-Based Video Game Makes a Splash

Those who enjoy drinking beer, playing video games, and (oddly enough) peeing in urinals may be able to reach true nirvana after all. "Place to Pee" is a new video game that relies on a player's ability to hit sensors in a urinal to control game play. While this may seem extremely male-centric, don't worry, ladies, the game designers have thought of you too, and have designed a specialized paper cone for participation. Man, it's a bad day to be a janitor.

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here's a photo

[edxwelch]

http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/05/urinal-game-banned-by-killjoy-belgium-police/

Its been done

[Anonymous Coward]

http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/41/superpiipii.html

No way!

[sucker_muts]

I'm from Belgium, and I went to a little festival last weekend, in the village next to mine. (I live in Retie and I went to Arendonk, for those from around here.) That place to pee stood there, and was pretty fun to watch.

For the interested, this is their official site: http://www.actur.be/placetopee/?p=Home%20(EN)

The game I saw was a guy skiing down a slope, the aiming part was needed to guide the player.

At first only little children tried to enter that thing, but as the party went on the 'adults' got more drunk and tried it out. To have fun for a long time you'll have to dose your stream though. :-)

Not new!

[DreadPiratePizz]

This came out of MIT a while ago, and it was called "Urine Control" (You're in control). http://web.media.mit.edu/~hayes/mas863/urinecontrol.html

Real medical issue

[LanMan04]

I'm a male in my early 30s and I have a "bisected stream" issue like 80% of the time I take a leak standing up.

It must be the shape of the urethral opening, but I get the main stream and sometimes a secondary "side piddle", much like pouring water from a glass (some snakes down the side of the glass). Probably about 5% of the volume of the main stream.

This can result in some nasty surprises since you can't really feel it happening. You look down after taking a leak and notice "oh my, I just pissed all over my right pant leg". I've gotten into the habit of putting my right hand kind of to the side to block the side-piddle if it does happen. Better on your hand than on your pant leg.

YMMV, obviously. This has never been officially diagnosed by a doctor (not that big a deal, and I'm sure as shit not having surgery done to fix it), but it does happen.