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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 :)
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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...and would a bank of urinals be a LAN? Now boys are going to start going to the restroom together... we couldn't do that before today (imagine a scene where one girl at a restaurant says to her girlfriend: "I'm going to the restroom, are you joining me?". Now switch them with two guys).
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Apparently joystick based games are becoming popular again.
Don't cross the streams!
I'm afraid Mary is dead.
... is not to play at all!
If a train station is a place where a train stops, what's a workstation?
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!!!
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.
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"Man dismembered by electrocution in freak urinal accident"
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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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.
So you'd be playing on a pee-to-pee network
AT&ROFLMAO
In the end, all of this is just another pissing contest.
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Urine trouble now!
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.