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SEGA Brings Gaming To Public Restroom Toilets
kkleiner writes "SEGA recently announced that they are testing their Toylets male urinal video game at select locations around Tokyo. Toylets uses a pressure sensor located on the back of the urinal to measure the strength and location of your urine stream. A small LCD screen above the urinal allows you to play several simple video games including a simulator for erasing graffiti and a variation on a sumo wrestling match. At the end of a game, the screen displays advertisements. Whether you find the concept hilarious, disturbing, or disgusting, urinal video games are simply another way that interactive media could invade every part of our lives. It also shows that no space is safe from digital ads."
...is the Zuck urinal puck. Nobody would ever miss again.
Now this is one pissing contest you just have to win :)
Does it support multiplayer?
Japan, for the nth time, you are so weird.
I know I'd love a chance to piss all over the Microsoft logo in a gentlemanly way.
So wait...now I'm supposed to play with myself in public bathrooms? Sheesh it'd hard to keep up with the rules...
"Hey! You sunk my Battleship®!"
Put this tech on 'potty trainers' for kids, and housebreak those rascals in no time!
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...to the term "Wii"!
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You get p*ssed off?
How p*ssed off can you get?
The more p*ssy you get the higher the score?
Does the guy with the bladder of an elephant,
that can stream across the bathroom automatically
get higher scores?
Next is the Bidet game!
so when are they going to one for the women's loos? you don't have to be male to pee and hit targets you know! OK writing your name in the sand is easier for males but they said this was about pressure not multitouch
Apparently joystick based games are becoming popular again.
Huh sir... sir... sir! I was a bit drunk and so much into that urinal game that I kind of... you know... got out off bounds... and there's no way I'm cleaning up.
Does it also have a webcam? Why not link it to a penis-rating site online?
Have a pressure sensitive screen lining the surface of the urinal pot and then you gotta aim your pee at enemies that appear on the screen. No one is going to cheat by touching it directly for sure.
Don't cross the streams!
I'm afraid Mary is dead.
We had these in our University Union toilets in Newcastle back in 2002 - not seen them anywhere else since though.
Digital ads even by the urinals? I'd use my elbow: you are terminated.
Oh, wait, there was a camera, too?
I'm just eager to watch penis enlarger companies advertising there...
I'm not going to duck, I'm going to hold my head up high!
... is not to play at all!
If a train station is a place where a train stops, what's a workstation?
That's one place viral advertising could lead to a nasty infection.
Great! The world's first socially acceptable way to admit playing with your penis in a public place.
- Otaku no naka no otaku, otaking da!!!
... for "you are playing with it".
If the screen does not work, shake it three time.
Too bad Wii is already trademarked.
Seems appropriate since most of Sega's games have been shit for years, Vanquish was pretty awesome though
If you think someone isn't free to have a different definition of "freedom" you may be a tyrant.
Okay Sega, when the hell did you sink this low? I mean seriously... fucking toilet games? Playing with your dick when you're supposed to be relieving yourself? This reeks of Japanese origins based on idea alone, so maybe this can be somewhat forgiven. It's almost like this disturbing, also of Japanese origin, idea: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P89IQ5Nr8NQ
Come on... really... no matter how your spin it... WHAT THE FUCK?!?
They'll probably get a DNA every time you... provide it... and put it together with your result in highscore table... Internet enable Toylet, and voila...
What remains to be solved is some difficulty level segregation. They can, for example, do a visual measurement of your... gaming controller.. and put you in appropriate difficulty level. Equal opportunities and all.
Maybe even pictures of high scoring players? To get full recognition for gaming success?
http://opencm3.net, http://www.nongnu.org/gm2/
Got an election coming up? Put the politicians side-by-side and let people piss on them!
To be this good takes.. SEGA.
Back in the 70's, I bought this at Spencer Gifts for a friend. It had small cardboard ships to toss into the toilet, and you could try to sink by pissing on them. If your bladder is full of beer, and your blood full of alcohol, it is a hoot and a half.
This "game" is much more challenging for women.
For the non-US folks, Spencer Gifts is a chain of stores in malls (shopping centers) in the US. They sell crap, like stuff to throw into the toilet and piss on.
Schroedinger's Brexit: The UK is both in and out of the EU at the same time!
"Man dismembered by electrocution in freak urinal accident"
I have prior art on this as I've been playing with my Wii in public restrooms for years.
This will help keep people from peeing on the floor. Goddamn, it's as if people haven't made it past potty training very far.
"The lights went out in the bathroom and I missed EVERYTHING" - firesign theatre "Tale of the Giant Rat of Sumatra"
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Microsoft, playing their usual catch up, have announced one based on their new phone os (its got terrific XBox integration). I was wondering what its answer to blue screens and red rings would be.
The most disturbing consequence of this is that the urinals will be cleaner because people will try to piss inside the urinal now. I'm not joking. In a mall in my town someone remembered to make urinals with images of spiders and other bugs inside the urinals and the effect was notorious because people would then concentrate on pissing on the images inside the bowl!
Testify! I can hear my lady peeing from out back in the shed! And yes, despite this, she is most definitely a lady
Ooh shit, I mean't to post that anonymously! Sorry my sweet, lovely, delicate goddess!
DOH!!!
When will we get urinal ads.
I mean, you have an audience that has nothing sensible to look at instead (when you're sitting, you can at least read but at an urinal?), nothing good to do and they also can't really escape you, while at the same time they're there for the average length of a commercial.
Why didn't anyone get that idea before?
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Now Thats What I call "Taking the Piss"
Think of your colleagues hygiene habits. Would you use a touch screen in the bogs? It brings a whole new meaning to "that game was really crappy".
Nonsense! You're browsing on Slashdot! You can't have a partner - how else would you catch up with all the stellar news?
...that no place is safe from vandalism.
I mean, who wants to watch ads while peeing?
Why can't they make a game to encourage people to WASH THEIR FUCKING HANDS after they use the toilet. (Or, do Japanese people never wash their hands?)
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With repeated usage, some men could be trained to aim into the receptacle instead of splashing all around it. :) Talk about incentive!
In the future, The first time you use one of these loos, you will be prompted to enter your name and other random information. DNA material that is urinated will then be used to identify repeat users, this would help to maintain local and global high-score lists.
Geekism is your _only_ God!
The best urinal target I've ever seen was at the government facility were I worked. As a reminder that people talking on the telephone should not talk about classified information or have long conversations, someone prepared small stickers that were placed on every phone in the building which said, "Keep it short! Keep it secure!" When one of these stickers appeared in one of the urinals, it quickly became the "target." It was not uncommon to walk into the bathroom and discover a visitor laughing as he stepped up to that particular urinal.
Its Disgusting but Hilarious... When a person starts reading this article, surely he ll blast by laugh (http://stuffbin.blogspot.com/2011/01/how-to-choose-bathroom-suite.html)
In the end, all of this is just another pissing contest.
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Oh yes... nothing passes... the time... quite like... angry birds.
Sports bars with TV's in restroom is fine this is going to far.
Urine trouble now!
I think it sounds corny and silly enough to actually be amusing.
Hahahaha booty lockdown XD
Just find out where your wife surfs and dig up some dirt, you know women talk about all the same kinds of stuff with their girlfriends...
"When information is power, privacy is freedom" - Jah-Wren Ryel
Soon you'll have guys trying to get to just the right level of bladder fullness for the greatest pressure. Not so full that it would hurt to exert pressure, and not so low that you can't put any pressure behind it. Then you go for MAXIMUM DAMAGE!
And then the damn cheaters would bring super-soakers into the bathroom |:-(
"When information is power, privacy is freedom" - Jah-Wren Ryel
finally some good use of the 'little guy'.
One game is called ninja pissing (actually I just made that name up), I aim my piss to minimize sound. You gotta bounce it off the rim just above the waterline. If you're uber-l33t at it you'll even stay quiet when starting and finishing. Plus it makes you seem super-classy to the other guys in the bathroom B-)
Another game you can play is called "out the douchebag" (actually that's another name I just made up). When some douchebag uses his phone in the bathroom, you aim right for the middle of the bowl and piss with high pressure for maximum noise, and fart loudly if possible, so that the person he's on the phone with knows the douchebag is talking from inside a bathroom.
"When information is power, privacy is freedom" - Jah-Wren Ryel
A lot of shooting arcade games require you to point the gun off-screen in order to reload. Yeah, there might be a puddle on the floor next to the high scorers.
Alphaville: Pee in Japan (1984) ..It's easy when you pee in Japan,
Aah when you pee in Japan-tonight...
Pee in Japan-be-tight...
Pee in Japan... ooh the eastern sea's so blue
Pee in Japan-alright, pay!
I just hope they don't make any shitty games.
Perhaps, but I would rather play the ejaculation video game.
This scares me. I am already thoroughly disturbed by gender-specific advertisements on cable TV, and here they'll have a 100% male audience. What will they try to sell me? Aftershave? Condoms? Or even worse, will it loudly proclaim "ENZYTE: NATURAL MALE ENHANCEMENT! GET SOME!" What if my "performance" in the game is available to advertisers? I can never use public restrooms again!
Which reminds me of a Red vs. Blue that went something like: "I never use public restrooms." "What? We've been out here for years!" "Yeah, it's going to be an eventful homecoming."
I sometimes ask revealing, often ignorant-seeming questions. Maybe they're harder to answer than you think.
Here is his paper he presented in 2003. http://www.monzy.org/urinecontrol/
s/SEGA/SMEGMA/g
Now what would be really hilarious would be to bring this to the online gaming industry. You could be playing piss ninja with your friends in India where ever you go and maintain an online list of friends so you know exactly where they are and what urinal game they are playing all the time. :P
have fun parked on the toilet
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A urinal with a dart board. The middle spun around in the stream. Like it or not games probably help make drunks pay attention on where they are pissing.
Great!!! The restaurant gets to re-sell the same ad space again. The advertiser gets more publicity when the thief tells people the story "I stole this Brand X poster from restaurant Y." Why do you think Advertising hands out so much free swag?
Typical male pissing contest.
Now what about the girls?
Dennis Onstenk
This is great! How many times have I been at the urinal consumed by boredom? This is going to make that 20 seconds fly by.
Good idea, but you ain't seen nothing yet.
Wait until my company releases games for taking a dump. You can compete in different categories: girth, length, weight as well as accuracy of delivering payload to exact spot in the bowl, conveniently monitored via toi-cam. Or if decide to go liquid, you can choose a game of fart-along, which is similar in concept to guitar-hero, but more fun.
as a handheld gaming system?
Of course it makes me think that something like this could be done with Kinect.
A Vegas casino had huge sections of the old Berlin Wall installed in it's men's bathrooms behind a glass shield.
Pissing on the Berlin Wall is an uplifting experience everyone should get to do.
Think about it, if you posted high scores in the bar, or had real-time feedback in the bar area, wouldn't naturally competitive guys try to outdo each other or pressure and volume?
Maybe give a free beer to each new high score winner.
this was already tried before
'nuff said.
Can you play those carnival games where you compete with other players/pissers by hitting a target with your "water gun" which causes your horse to move down the racetrack or to blow up a balloon
"playing the Wii"
You and all the other fags now that glory holes have lost their popularity.
see: http://web.media.mit.edu/~hayes/mas863/urinecontrol.html
Thanks for the tip, Bro. But I'm not sure I wanna know ;P
At least this sounds more fun than just trying for the cigarette butts and gum in the bottom of the urinal.
I realize that if you live in the US and are young, you may not even know about this, but in my youth it was hard to find a urinal that didn't have one or both of those things floating in it. When I lived in Japan, it was pretty common, too. Don't even get me started on the hideousness of the Japanese-style toilets in Shinjuku Station :p
can't wait for the new breed of gaming addicts from this one! Damn and Korea thinks it's had more than a fair share problems in the past with PC gaming addictions this one is gonna cause a real shitstorm. Seriously though how long before they up the competitive "streak" or work out how to keep track of scores. I'm all for it myself.
Oh, God help us if this shit EVER goes multiplayer...
God help us all if this shit EVER goes multiplayer...