New Urinal-Based Video Game Makes a Splash

Those who enjoy drinking beer, playing video games, and (oddly enough) peeing in urinals may be able to reach true nirvana after all. "Place to Pee" is a new video game that relies on a player's ability to hit sensors in a urinal to control game play. While this may seem extremely male-centric, don't worry, ladies, the game designers have thought of you too, and have designed a specialized paper cone for participation. Man, it's a bad day to be a janitor.

I wonder...

[clonan]

If they have a big pristine snow bank for keeping the high scores...

Re:I wonder...

[cayenne8]

I've alway felt sorry for women....never knowing the pleasure of writing their names in the snow...

I'd for years thought to try to come up with some form fitting funnel with a hose attached to it they could use.

I mean...you're driving downt he road, and in the snow on the side of the road you read...Bill....Fred...Chuck.....LINDA??

Re:I wonder...

[spun]

I had a girlfriend for a couple years who was quite adept at peeing standing up. She'd just spread her lips with two fingers and kinda arch her hips forward. She could even manage a fair bit of accuracy and distance. Although she would only try it while wearing a dress because of the dribble problem.

As for the funnel/hose idea, well, it's been around for a while. I think they called it "Le funnel" or something.

If you thought that was funny

[spun]

She also had this little rubber cup that she stuck up her twat. She used it to catch her blood during her time of the month. No lie, she fertilized her garden with it. Gotta love hippie chicks.

Re:

[glittalogik]

That would be a DivaCup(TM) [divacup.com]. To each their own...

Re:

[dargaud]

My wife uses a "Freshette [freshette.com]" on climbing expeditions. Picture [gdargaud.net]

Re:I wonder...

[ggeens]

I'd for years thought to try to come up with some form fitting funnel with a hose attached to it they could use.

It exists: the P-Mate [plastuit.nl]. I still have one somewhere.

Re:

[SkyDude]

And there's this little gem [youtube.com]

Re:

[slashdotwannabe]

Hmmm... writing your name in the snow versus multiple orgasms.... tell me again why you feel sorry for women?

Re:

[Anonymous Coward]

the question is.. who gives a SHIT?

Wait, what?

[Duncan Blackthorne]

..so we're reduced to this, now? *puts bag over head in shame* No wonder the aliens won't openly visit us!

Re:Wait, what?

[snowraver1]

Say what you want, if it keeps the assholes around here from pissing everywhere but in the toilet/urnal, it seems like a good idea.

I'm so sick of heading to the can to take a nice shit, oney to find out that some asshole still can't aim his wee-wee after 30 odd years of practice.

Re:Wait, what?

[everphilski]

if it keeps the assholes around here from pissing everywhere but in the toilet/urnal

I can't help it, my wife was Loraina Bobbit!

Re:

[y86]

if it keeps the assholes around here from pissing everywhere but in the toilet/urnal

I can't help it, my wife was Loraina Bobbit!

That's hardly off-topic. It's pretty funny.

Re:

[tristian_was_here]

Talking about shit there should be a game that weighs a persons shit and there should be some sort of top score system on the door.

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[SkyDude]

Talking about shit there should be a game that weighs a persons shit and there should be some sort of top score system on the door.

Ahhhh.....nooo.....I think the peeing game will suffice. But thanks for playing

Re:

[cleatsupkeep]

You measure it in Courics. Good luck beating Bono.

Re:Wait, what?

[ShieldW0lf]

It's the bisected stream effect. You're aiming straight, but there's a hair stuck to you or something, and you end up simultaneously pissing on both shoes. Once you hit puberty and start growing some hair down there, you'll understand...

Real medical issue

[LanMan04]

I'm a male in my early 30s and I have a "bisected stream" issue like 80% of the time I take a leak standing up.

It must be the shape of the urethral opening, but I get the main stream and sometimes a secondary "side piddle", much like pouring water from a glass (some snakes down the side of the glass). Probably about 5% of the volume of the main stream.

This can result in some nasty surprises since you can't really feel it happening. You look down after taking a leak and notice "oh my, I just pissed all over my right pant leg". I've gotten into the habit of putting my right hand kind of to the side to block the side-piddle if it does happen. Better on your hand than on your pant leg.

YMMV, obviously. This has never been officially diagnosed by a doctor (not that big a deal, and I'm sure as shit not having surgery done to fix it), but it does happen.

Re:Real medical issue

[bob.appleyard]

You look down after taking a leak and notice "oh my, I just pissed all over my right pant leg".

I think the main problem here is not looking where you're pissing!

Re:

[dargaud]

Hmmm, on a similar take, I get a flow coming out at a 60Â angle... up. So I basically have to put 'it' down completely vertically _or_ to have a flow that's slow enough to have a short parabolic trajectory. First case is difficult if there is any leftover morning wood, and in any case it's difficult to aim. Second case takes lots of aim and concentration, unlike when my wife tickled me and then complained that I repainted the wall almost up to the ceiling. Hey, I mean come on, what did she expect ?!?

Re:

[Shadow99_1]

I take care of the morning wood aiming issues the easy way... I piss in the shower... Not like the water doesn't go to the same place... And in the shower it really doesn't matter if you shoot straight ahead @ a perfect 90 degrees or more...

Re:

[dargaud]

I agree... but my wife insists that I take my showers in the evening [something to do with smell, hugging and things beyond me], so it doesn't really resolve that issue. And I remember discussing this exact subject with my roommates when I was still a student way back, and I was really surprised at their horrified reaction: "What, you are pissing in the shower! Arghh! The horror! The inhumanity! [running around like chicken with their heads cut off]" I thought everybody did it.

Re:Real medical issue

[OldManAndTheC++]

...I have a "bisected stream" issue like 80% of the time I take a leak standing up.

+1 Much Too Informative

Toilet paper

[Any Web Loco]

So clean up after yourself with a wad of toilet paper FFS. It's not difficult, it's your own piss, and it's good manners.

Re:

[ShieldW0lf]

It can if you're not cut. Nothing like getting the morning wood and waking up screaming as your hairs are pulled out....

Re:

[Hojima]

Or your pubes fall out. It's not too rare for me though. I grew out all my chest hair by the time I was 14, so I have plenty of hair to spare. The other explanation for missing is you have a friend that's pissing in the adjacent stall and you want to be an asshole and get his shoes wet. I have only returned fire in that situation however.

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[Duncan Blackthorne]

..some asshole still can't aim his wee-wee after 30 odd years of practice

But, you fail to recognize that the efficacy of Beer Goggles is inversely proportional to degree of hand/eye (or is it hand/weiner) co-ordination.

Re:Wait, what?

[Belial6]

This is a problem that we need some help on solving. I personally have been telling women to start commenting on how men who pee on the floor don't know how to use their penis. If women start eluding to the idea that men who pee on the floor must suck in bed, we would likely see a huge improvement in this area.

Re:

[stephanruby]

if it keeps the assholes around here from pissing everywhere but in the toilet/urinal, it seems like a good idea.

Don't get your hopes up. The police claims there was a 40% increase in car thefts the first year Grand Theft Auto came out. I hope for your sake this game doesn't go mainstream.

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[garnetlion]

if it keeps the assholes around here from pissing everywhere...

FYI, one generally doesn't piss out their asshole.

Urinal fly

[tessaiga]

This actually isn't a bad idea. A while back there was a story about the urinal fly [urinalfly.com], and how urinal in Amsterdam have a sticker of a little fly on them because they found that it improved people's aim when they had something to focus on [truthorfiction.com]. This seems like the same principle taken to the next level.

Re:Urinal fly

[xaxa]

In England I've seen little plastic football (soccer) goals placed in the bottom of urinals, with a ball on a string between the posts. Definitely something to aim at! (and a chance to score in the men's?)

Here it is, £2.99:
http://www.lazyboneuk.com/products/Pee-Goal.html [lazyboneuk.com]

(Of course, as a nation of drunks, we think of this stuff first ;-)

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[Missing_dc]

I used to keep inkjet-on-normal-paper printed pictures of my ex-girlfriends faces in my wallet and drop one in the urinal while at a bar or club. It was always fun to hit the restroom right before leaving and see how distorted the images got. Even funnier when the current girlfriend sees them and says "what do you carry these for?" as I am explaining, a buddy usually pipes in "I thought that looked like so-and-so in the urinal on the right"

Oh come on

[commodoresloat]

It doesn't take a whiz to see that this video game will soon become number one.

Re:

[Duncan Blackthorne]

You, sir, need to be smacked for that comment. Mod down by one, "shameless punster". ;)

Re:

[BluBrick]

You're right, he is an incorrigible punster. But it's only because people keep incorriging him!

Re:Oh come on

[batquux]

Urine for some serious modding..

Re:

[Hatta]

Is it available on pee2pee? Perhaps we could arrange a single-elimination tournament?

Re:

[shbazjinkens]

..so we're reduced to this, now? *puts bag over head in shame* No wonder the aliens won't openly visit us!

If the real thing bothers you, would a little simulated pii-pii action [thinkgeek.com] bother you? (real product from Japan sold in thinkgeek, must see!)

Fire-Fighter Game?

[Anonymous Coward]

So now, instead of just imagining buildings are on fire and the "stream of justice" is putting the fire out, we can now play it as a game? Wow.

Mess you up

[Joebert]

I'm definately not playing this with any of the guys who used to reach over and slap my controller when I was beating them on Nintendo games.

Re:

[countSudoku()]

How about just knocking the monitor and console into the bowl while they're taking their turn? *bzzzzap* Looks like I win. ;) If there's a stupider video game idea, I've yet to hear it.

WTF

[Captain Splendid]

Man, it's a bad day to be a janitor.

It's always a bad day to be a janitor.

/ex-janitor.

Re:

[Captain Splendid]

I can definitely confirm that. Like a tampon factory from hell, among other things.

To be fair, the average female's visit to the WC probably takes a lot longer than the average male's, for a variety of reasons, so I'd expect the females to "rush it" more often.

You have to give the people what they want

[Anonymous Coward]

Personally, I love it when I go to a bar and they have ice cubes in the bottom of the urinal ... and I defy any man here (especially after a few beers) to resist the urge to strategically and enthusiastically pee all over the ice cubes, melting them individually, melting them in groups, moving over to despoil a fresh zone ... it's tremendously good fun.

Re:

[Anonymous Coward]

I went into one place that had LCD screens with plexiglass covers in them.

It was showing a Spice Girls video.

It's a glorious feeling pissing on Geri Halliwell's face

Re:

[zobier]

Home nightclub in Sydney used to have those (don't know if they still do), however the rest of the wall is a mirror so you're confronted by a row of cocks. The TVs were a welcome distraction, god help you if you suffer from stage fright.

I'm Willing to Bet

[FurtiveGlancer]

Quality of play will be piss-poor.

Slash - dot

[Mostly a lurker]

I had to laugh. For the benefit of those not fully familiar with English (probably originally Irish) slang, "to have a slash" means to take a pee. Thus, it is quite appropriate that a game that involves peeing to hit a target should appear on Slashdot.

Its been done

[Anonymous Coward]

http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/41/superpiipii.html [thinkgeek.com]

Get your Yuks in now

[Guppy]

Inquiring minds want to know -- has "I.P. Freely" made it onto the High Scores list yet?

And, will there be a port for the Nintendo Wii? I bet it would make a big splash in the market.

Re:

[keytoe]

You laugh, but you're not the first to think of this. [youtube.com]

Re:Get your Yuks in now

[Speare]

I'm sure you've got more in you than that! Let loose!

What kind of yellow journalism would cover this so piss poorly? Slip-shod! The whole site is going in the tank. Was the product officially issued, or was it a leak? I predict the Number One sales spot in a quarter, but then the market will take a dump. I have an urge to splurge on one of these, myself, though this product's really only for the ones who wear the pants in their families. Will the seniors buy this? Depends. Does it run Linux? Where's the torrent for this? Can't have your urinal cake and eat it too. There is some bad news about the working conditions at the factory. Underpaid workers and dehydrated testing staff were chanting from the picket lines: "Hell No! We Won't Go!"

What was that?! Get your mind out of the gutter!

Re:

[Z34107]

They were making a multiplayer version, but the IP stack overflowed?

here's a photo

[edxwelch]

http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/05/urinal-game-banned-by-killjoy-belgium-police/ [engadget.com]

This is a good thing

[hellfire]

We need stupid things like this to happen once in a while. We need to be reminded of the outer limits of fucktardom so that we know where not to stray. Someone is going to try to buy this and get it installed, thinking it's neat, and we all get to stop and say "You, sir, are a fucktard, do you honestly think I need to be entertained for the 20 seconds it takes for me to pee? You just got robbed." And the maker of this will be laughing to the bank until the fucktards are properly put in their place and stop buying stupid shit like this... and then society moves on.

Re:

[Joebert]

Some of the bars I go to don't have urinals, they have a trough with drainage pipes bolted to the wall full of ice and citrus.

Some of us have contests to see who can melt the largest crater.

Re:This is a good thing

[CheeseTroll]

Ah, the multi-player version!

What's next?

[getto man d]

Take your "team" to the "superbowl"?

Though the article is similar to the ThinkGeek parody found here http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/41/superpiipii.html [thinkgeek.com]

Spa Pii Pii Brothers

[tepples]

The fake is obvious to anybody who has learned even a bit of Japanese. For one thing, the katakana in the box art says "Spa Pii Pii Brothers", not the expected "Super Pii Pii Brothers". "Super" becomes "su -- pa --" once transliterated into katakana, but the box art says "su pa --", which sounds more like "spa" or "spar" because a 'u' between voiceless [wikipedia.org] consonants often drops out unless it has the long-vowel mark (resembling a dash) after it.

Joystick

[Urger]

If you play for too long you'll go blind!

This is perfect for movie theaters!

[rhartness]

"Reloads" there are already 3-5 a "pop".

Re:

[rhartness]

^-- Oops, $3.00-5.00.

This is new?

[Anonymous Coward]

I recall a shockwave flash game made in the late 90s called the Urinal game. The objective was to determine which urinal was the "correct" one to use. You could even select an occupied one, just to see what happens. It was quite amusing for its time.

Power Pill

[nick_davison]

DO NOT EAT THE POWER PILL.

I tried. It gave me no bonuses. It just made me feel kinda weird. Didn't taste like a mint either. :(

Re:

[geminidomino]

You're lucky you posted AC. Diet pepsi in the sinuses doesn't feel good, you bastard. :)

I don't like to brag, but...

[hyades1]

I'm not sure about this. In order to be, ahem, fair to the other players, I'd have to stand a long way back, and my eyes aren't that good.

Brilliant strategy!

[spazdor]

If the frat dudes adopt this as a new stupid jocular competition (which I'm certain will be the case) then the pub owners now have a totally weird new driver for beer sales.

"I'll beat you next time... when we have to pee again. Hey, another pitcher over here plz!"

No way!

[sucker_muts]

I'm from Belgium, and I went to a little festival last weekend, in the village next to mine. (I live in Retie and I went to Arendonk, for those from around here.) That place to pee stood there, and was pretty fun to watch.

For the interested, this is their official site: http://www.actur.be/placetopee/?p=Home%20(EN) [actur.be]

The game I saw was a guy skiing down a slope, the aiming part was needed to guide the player.

At first only little children tried to enter that thing, but as the party went on the 'adults' got more drunk and tried it out. To have fun for a long time you'll have to dose your stream though. :-)

iLoo

[the_arrow]

I wonder if this can be combined with the iLoo [wikipedia.org]?

Not new!

[DreadPiratePizz]

This came out of MIT a while ago, and it was called "Urine Control" (You're in control). http://web.media.mit.edu/~hayes/mas863/urinecontrol.html [mit.edu]

I'm gonna make a game

[commodoresloat]

called "Urine Idiot"

Bad day, alright

[ciaohound]

It's a bad day for shy geeks who are unable to piss in public. Not that I have that problem. Really, I've just heard about it. Still, I hope my friends never ask me over to play...

"Man, it's a bad day to be a janitor. "

[indytx]

Man, it's a bad day to be my wife. I've got to get one of those.

"Specialized paper cone"?!

[AdamWill]

The mind just *boggles*.

Be Careful How You Phrase It

[FurtiveGlancer]

when asking about the latest "P2P" technology.

Finally!

[UnixUnix]

A videogame that has found its level.

Note: The Paul principle. You rise to your level of incontinence

new tag please

[gfody]

"TTIWWOP"

Wait..

[catdevnull]

Is this called the "Wee"?

Watch out, here comes Activision!

[ZarathustraDK]

Soon they'll release "Pissoir Hero", soon to be followed by its open source equivalent "Dicks on Fire".

Quick, someone call ....

[ShadowOfMe]

Jack Thompson.

Slashdot

[sa1lnr]

Idly pissing the time away.

Also in the UK, to have a Slash is to have a piss. ;)

Just checking...

[thatseattleguy]

...but I assume the game is written in p-code? [wikipedia.org]

F=ma

[SpinyNorman]

Puts me at a distinct disadvantage to play this game - would be very hard to move the "game controller" quickly, intertia being what it is. :-|

Time to order pizza!

[OrangeTide]

Order a pizza and invite all your friends together to share a great time.

I would at least keep some hand sanitizer around if you're going to eat pizza in the bathroom.

Seen this a long time ago

[Dekortage]

Seriously, years ago I saw a graduate project at Parsons School of Design in their Design & Technology [parsons.edu] department that was a video game in a urinal, sort of like the space aliens version mentioned in this article. For the public exhibit, they put out squirt guns so that men could play the game without being obscene, and women could play as well. I am pretty sure it was just water in the squirt guns....

Related news...

[rrohbeck]

In Frankfurt, they're installing similar systems in bars and clubs to remind people to take a taxi after they had a few (and crashed horribly in the game.)
The Piss-Screen(TM) [piss-screen.com], "an interactive urinary experience."

Don't cross the streams!

[rrohbeck]

Ok I stole this one from endgadget but I thought your keyboard could use a shower too.

Probably better than mine...

[CyberDong]

I've been working on a similar idea for a while, but mine features a nose-operated touchscreen above the urinal. I suppose the sensors in the bowl is a more hygienic idea....

** SIGH **
Back to the drawing board...

First person shooter!

[deft]

I just hope they dont make me pee to the side to reload. That could get messy.

Prior art

[Deadstick]

...in fact, two layers of prior art. There was a Slashdot article in 2006 that mentioned a lower-tech version, and in that thread I referred to an even lower-tech version from the Seventies called "Whizzers", that involved cardboard targets.

rj

Bad day to be a janitor?

[AlgorithMan]

Man, it's a bad day to be a janitor.

I don't think so
here in germany most urinals have something to "hit" nowadays (a soccer ball in front of a goal, a fly,...) because men tend to "aim" better (trying to hit them) which lowered the cleaning expenses significantly (40% was the most i heared of)...

I'd guess those games might have the same effect - long term motivation might lower the soilings even more, so infact it might be a really good day to be a janitor...
well, at least it might be a less bad day

Don't confuse it with guitar hero

[syousef]

...or it might turn into a game of "don't wiz on the electric fence"

[e-mail]

[Smivs]

Didn't anyone pay heed to the warnings of mixing water and electricity?
Zip
Pee
Zap!
Aaaargh.......

Re:

[zappepcs]

What are you thinking? The last time I was in the local 'sports bar' the longer the night wore on, the more sure I was that the place was full of 5 year olds!!

Re:

[CowboyNealOption]

Some joker hooking the targets up to a wall socket?

Re:I am Glad its being banned. Its sexist and unfa

[Bloodoflethe]

I'm pretty sure this is a troll but, in the off chance that it is someone that can't make distinctions between sexism and quirky but functional innovation, I will state the following:

Most of the above post is about as ludicrous as me stating that women are sexist because they would like multiple orgasms during the same sexual encounter, when the man would only get one, maybe two.

Also, according to most janitors and business owners (including women business owners) women's bathrooms have always been nas

Re:

[Gat0r30y]

What? Men finally have an excuse to go to the bathroom in groups too now!
Also -

equipment privilege.

Hey, don't get me wrong - I love my equipment (often) but since 49% of people have one - i'd hardly call it a privilege.

Spore, a.k.a. SimEverything

[tepples]

> Looks like we'll soon have a simulation for everything.

And it is called Spore.

> I can't wait to play some "Sim Poo" on my xbox...

The Sims runs on Xbox [google.com].