Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

SEGA's New Urinal-Based Gaming Interface Lets You Pee for Points
Popular Science ^ | 12/15/2010 | Clay Dillow

Posted on 12/16/2010 12:56:13 PM PST by llevrok

Toirettsu, SEGA's Bathroom-Based Gaming Interface There was a time when you had to go down to the arcade or pizza shop and pump quarters into machines if you wanted to enjoy a video game experience. Then computers and home gaming consoles brought video game entertainment into our living rooms. Now Sega is cornering the niche bathroom gaming market with a gaming interface named “Toirettsu” in which the user controls the game by peeing on sensors in a urinal.

If you can’t go standing up, perhaps Toirettsu isn’t for you (sorry ladies, but your hands-free method allows you to play Angry Birds on the can anyhow). Toirettsu targets restaurant and retail environments, ostensibly in hopes that by giving users goal-oriented mini-games to focus on, their men’s room floors might stay a bit cleaner as gents have somewhere to aim. And, of course, it gives establishments (and Sega) somewhere to place an ad.

We’re not so sure that urinal gaming is going to keep floors any cleaner – in fact, it’s not difficult to imagine it making floors dirtier (ever thrown your controller during a particularly frustrating round of Halo?). But it will make peeing in public toilets more fun. Layer in a multiplayer, head-to-head (pun intended) function and pretty soon men will be going to the bathroom in pairs too.



TOPICS: Humor; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: gaythread; joystick; napl; sega; weeweedup
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-35 last
To: Slings and Arrows
It'll never replace the old analong games...


21 posted on 12/16/2010 1:24:38 PM PST by a fool in paradise (The establishment clause isn't just against my OWN government establishing state religion in America)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 20 | View Replies]

To: llevrok; Slings and Arrows; Revolting cat!
We’re not so sure that urinal gaming is going to keep floors any cleaner

Message on video screen, "Hey dummy, you're peeing on your shoes! Look DOWN!!!"

22 posted on 12/16/2010 1:27:12 PM PST by a fool in paradise (The establishment clause isn't just against my OWN government establishing state religion in America)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: shibumi
Here's the men's room wall at a popular bar in Cozumel, Mexico:

Oh, and you'll find me under the bar at Carlos & Charlies...


23 posted on 12/16/2010 1:36:31 PM PST by humblegunner (Blogger Overlord)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 15 | View Replies]

To: shibumi

You and the urinals....ugh!

LOL


24 posted on 12/16/2010 1:36:50 PM PST by Salamander (Can't sleep....the clowns will eat me.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 8 | View Replies]

To: DManA

“No good. Discriminates against women”

Not to mention discrimination against those of us who are
prostate challenged!


25 posted on 12/16/2010 1:41:19 PM PST by buckalfa (Confused and Bewildered With a Half Empty Glass)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: llevrok

High tech overkill. A Jane Fonda urinal cake works just as well.


26 posted on 12/16/2010 1:56:10 PM PST by NonValueAdded (Palin 2012: don't retreat, just reload)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: llevrok

And the last graphic of the game says “Why are you looking here, the joke is in your hand”

:)


27 posted on 12/16/2010 2:02:05 PM PST by 5Madman2 (There is no such thing as an experienced suicide bomber)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Dilbert San Diego
Geez louise........who the heck thinks up stuff like this? What kind of mind conceives of this kind of game????

Take it from someone that has worked a gas station with a public bathroom. This was thought up and designed by someone that had to clean up after those who can't aim accurately on ther own.

28 posted on 12/16/2010 2:16:49 PM PST by DarthFuzball ("Life is full of little surprises." - Pandora)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies]

To: llevrok

Sega peecast!


29 posted on 12/16/2010 2:32:14 PM PST by Nooseman (mutt)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: llevrok

I’d have to be a pretty quick game. It takes what, 20-30 seconds tops to empty a full bladder and shake?


30 posted on 12/16/2010 2:43:19 PM PST by diverteach (If I find liberals in heaven after my death.....I WILL BE PISSED!!!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: sayuncledave
I think some of the customers were using said adverts for, ahem, target practice. Just goes to show, I guess. ;)

When I worked at Univ of Dayton, I regularly worked out in the gym. The urinals in the mens room had targets on the plastic screens at the bottom. We figured it was to cater to the competitive nature of athletes.

31 posted on 12/16/2010 4:03:08 PM PST by JoeFromSidney (new book. Info at book-resistancetotyranny.com)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 6 | View Replies]

To: sayuncledave
I think some of the customers were using said adverts for, ahem, target practice. Just goes to show, I guess. ;)

When I worked at Univ of Dayton, I regularly worked out in the gym. The urinals in the mens room had targets on the plastic screens at the bottom. We figured it was to cater to the competitive nature of athletes.

32 posted on 12/16/2010 4:03:13 PM PST by JoeFromSidney (new book. Info at book-resistancetotyranny.com)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 6 | View Replies]

To: shibumi; Slings and Arrows

Uh... Thanks for the pings.

Bump?


33 posted on 12/16/2010 5:36:02 PM PST by TheOldLady ("Face it, Obama: You, too, were a useful idiot." - Lazamataz, who would hit it...with a brick.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 15 | View Replies]

To: mowowie

Uh - huh thereby insuring you gentleman needed to purchase lots of beer to win?


34 posted on 12/16/2010 7:09:33 PM PST by sanjoaquinvalley (Longtime Lady Lurker)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 16 | View Replies]

To: llevrok

Sounds like you could turn this into one hell of a drinking game.


35 posted on 12/17/2010 6:14:26 PM PST by Free Vulcan (The cult of Islam must be eradicated by any means necessary.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-35 last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson