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.
tinkle ping
No good. Discriminates against women.
Geez louise........who the heck thinks up stuff like this? What kind of mind conceives of this kind of game????
The demo pee-er is a replica of the famous Manneken Pis in Brussels:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mambo1935/152382691/
In the eighties, when I played in numerous bars, I remember seeing urinal-based advertising. I think some of the customers were using said adverts for, ahem, target practice. Just goes to show, I guess. ;)
Perhaps the next version of this will involve other bathroom functions, the kind which men and women perform in the same manner. Then the feminists won’t be able to complain discrimination.
Geez, who thinks up this kind of stuff? Sheesh, can’t believe somebody invented a game of this kind.
Any points for putting the seat back down?
I always laughed at the little speakers next to the toilet paper that could play a flushing sound for those who were concerned about taking a dump so that no one would hear you taking a dump but didn’t actually want to flush while taking a dump.
And, of course, this was in Japan.
“TOIRETTSU!”
Nice ‘engrishy’ name!!!!!
Piss on ‘em.
I saw something like this once at O’Sheas Casino in Las Vegas.
It measured your manhood by how much you pee.
OH! OH! OH! I got it! Did they name the product, Wii Wii?
“What kind of mind conceives of this kind of game????”
A college-age male mind would be my bet.
The Japanese do that’s who!
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