I just found this on the ABC Online News.
Two Belgian beer fans have launched a video game named ‘Place to pee’, which allows players to slalom down ski slopes or kill aliens while relieving themselves at urinals. Werner Dupont, a software developer, and Bart Geraets, an electrical engineer, got the idea while drinking Belgian trappist beers, they said at a local festival.
“This thing had to be invented by Belgian people and that’s what we are,” they said.
The ‘Place to pee’ booth is designed for two users at a time and offers two games – blowing up aliens in outer space or skiing down a virtual slope. Gamers hit their target by aiming at sensors positioned on either side of the urinal. A specially designed paper cone allows women to play too, the inventors say.
Their ‘Place to pee’ logo resembles ‘Manneken Pis’, the little urinating boy fountain that is among Brussels’ top sightseeing attractions.
It seems this may be the second attempt to create a urinal/video game. Last November a urinal-based racing game was making the rounds. One you drive a car with your pee, and which warns you against drunk driving if you’re not controlling your car too well? Well the Belgium police didn’t seem to find it too amusing, and banned the “Place to Pee” version of the game installed at GamePower Expo in Gent, Belgium as an indecency offence.
Filed under: lifestyle | Tagged: belgium, indecency, pee, place to pee, police, trappist monks, urinal, video game
The rumours about Belgium and the Belgians appear to be true. See the attached:
http://caughtinthemiddleman.wordpress.com/2007/03/09/planes-trains-automobiles-part-2/
F–k me I’m bored! So many things to do and…..
Visiting Aerchie’s Archive will no doubt revive me
My overriding memory of Belgioum is Strawberry beer, mussels and chips, with mayonaise.
Yum.
This sort of reinforces the “penis as a weapon” theory.
You guys just have no end of fun with those things.
Oh wait I forgot one…like all video games this one is also played with a joystick.
@ Middle Man, So the Belgians are the Irish of the Continent
@ Philipa – back to your books!
@ Honjii, Yup, us blokes is incorrigible! As for the joystick – of course
Y’know, a sensor dead centre of the bowl would probably be a better idea. However, I have grave doubts that anyone coming to piss in a pub could actually hit it.
That could be connected to a red dye container that spurts a dose onto the forehead of the unco-ordinated pee-er as a warning not to drive for six hours.