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.
Message on video screen, "Hey dummy, you're peeing on your shoes! Look DOWN!!!"
Oh, and you'll find me under the bar at Carlos & Charlies...
You and the urinals....ugh!
LOL
“No good. Discriminates against women”
Not to mention discrimination against those of us who are
prostate challenged!
High tech overkill. A Jane Fonda urinal cake works just as well.
And the last graphic of the game says “Why are you looking here, the joke is in your hand”
:)
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.
Sega peecast!
I’d have to be a pretty quick game. It takes what, 20-30 seconds tops to empty a full bladder and shake?
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.
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.
Uh... Thanks for the pings.
Bump?
Uh - huh thereby insuring you gentleman needed to purchase lots of beer to win?
Sounds like you could turn this into one hell of a drinking game.
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