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05-25-2008, 03:16 PM
Place to pee: new Belgian urinal-based video game
By Michael Thompson | Published: May 20, 2008 - 10:05AM CT
As if peeing into a urinal wasn't fun enough already, it's now possible to play video games while doing so. Two men in Belgium (the home of the world's greatest beers) have unveiled Place to Pee, a video game that relies on players hitting sensors in urinals to control game play.
Werner Dupont and Bart Geraets (a software and electrical engineer, respectively), the game's developers and self-labeled beer fans, created the Place to Pee games to be playable for two bathroom visitors at time. According to Dupont and Geraets, the idea for the game came to them while they were drinking some Belgian trappist ale, a time when most breakthroughs of genius take place.
The two different modes feature a ski race that has players compete against each other on a virtual slalom course and a space battle where you fire on hostile aliens. Despite the fact that players are required to relieve themselves into a urinal in order to actually play, women are capable of competing in the game, as well: apparently, female players can get in on the action by utilizing a specially-designed paper cone.
While these games are recent creations, they seem to be a part of the same franchise that was shut down by Belgian gendarmes this past summer due to claims of indecency.
Neat idea but I don't think the paper cone thing is gonna catch on.
hxxp://arstechnica.com/journals/thumbs.ars/2008/05/20/new-urinal-video-games-launched-in-belgium-by-beer-fans
By Michael Thompson | Published: May 20, 2008 - 10:05AM CT
As if peeing into a urinal wasn't fun enough already, it's now possible to play video games while doing so. Two men in Belgium (the home of the world's greatest beers) have unveiled Place to Pee, a video game that relies on players hitting sensors in urinals to control game play.
Werner Dupont and Bart Geraets (a software and electrical engineer, respectively), the game's developers and self-labeled beer fans, created the Place to Pee games to be playable for two bathroom visitors at time. According to Dupont and Geraets, the idea for the game came to them while they were drinking some Belgian trappist ale, a time when most breakthroughs of genius take place.
The two different modes feature a ski race that has players compete against each other on a virtual slalom course and a space battle where you fire on hostile aliens. Despite the fact that players are required to relieve themselves into a urinal in order to actually play, women are capable of competing in the game, as well: apparently, female players can get in on the action by utilizing a specially-designed paper cone.
While these games are recent creations, they seem to be a part of the same franchise that was shut down by Belgian gendarmes this past summer due to claims of indecency.
Neat idea but I don't think the paper cone thing is gonna catch on.
hxxp://arstechnica.com/journals/thumbs.ars/2008/05/20/new-urinal-video-games-launched-in-belgium-by-beer-fans