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Sega Toylets, Urine-Controlled Video Games, Debut In Japan Men's Rooms (VIDEO)


First Posted: 01/19/2011 3:37 pm Updated: 05/25/2011 7:25 pm

Video games are already a ubiquitous component in the lives of young boys and grown men alike, but a new Japanese game is literally making a splash all its own.

The AFP reports that Sega has debuted four types of "Toylets," or urine-controlled games, in Toyko men's rooms in pubs and game arcades. Urinals are fitted with special pressure sensors, with eye-level LCD screens displaying the action.

According to the Guardian, the games feature ample amounts of potty humor, and appropriately so. Titled "Manneken Pis" after the famed Belgium statue, one game measures the volume of the player's urine stream, while "Splashing Battle" challenges users to produce a more powerful stream than the previous visitor.

A more cheeky game, "The North Wind and the Sun and Me," reportedly features sensors that control a digital wind blowing up a young woman's skirt, Marilyn Monroe-style. The greater the urine stream's intensity, the higher the skirt travels. And for those who want to brag about their bladder-relieving skills, the scores are also available for download.

Though one childcare blog has already touted the "Toylet" games as an ingenious method of potty training for youngsters, Sega said the Toylet games would be widely available only until the end of the month, and have no current plans to market them commercially.

Watch a "Toylet" demo video here:

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Video games are already a ubiquitous component in the lives of young boys and grown men alike, but a new Japanese game is literally making a splash all its own. The AFP reports that Sega has debuted...
Video games are already a ubiquitous component in the lives of young boys and grown men alike, but a new Japanese game is literally making a splash all its own. The AFP reports that Sega has debuted...
Video games are already a ubiquitous component in the lives of young boys and grown men alike, but a new Japanese game is literally making a splash all its own. The AFP reports that Sega has debuted...
Video games are already a ubiquitous component in the lives of young boys and grown men alike, but a new Japanese game is literally making a splash all its own. The AFP reports that Sega has debuted...
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Euterpe360
I'm just a little bi-partisan
01:13 PM on 01/24/2011
This is straight genius. If they can get Sonic the Hedgehog involved it would be epic.
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Bhokara
Patriot. Veteran. Paratrooper. Socialist.
04:34 AM on 01/24/2011
I'd definitely be pissed off if I lost.
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chicamorena
03:08 PM on 01/23/2011
Effing gross!
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Dennis Yuen
10:52 AM on 01/23/2011
I want one.
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cliffhammond
Onward through the fog!
01:19 AM on 01/23/2011
It's a trick to train men and boys not to miss and splatter the floor. Now they need to set this game up on toilets with the lids down. So what if it takes a while to train us.
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Chivas
Illegitimi non carborondum
11:14 PM on 01/22/2011
When children, we use to challenge each other to write our names, but our neighbohrs didn't appreciate our creative calligraphy....LOL...those were the times!
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cliffhammond
Onward through the fog!
01:21 AM on 01/23/2011
My sister once wrote part of the Declaration of Independence in the snow. "We the peeeple..."
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Geoulio Fransesco
Free Marc Emery!
01:31 AM on 01/23/2011
You mixed up the joke. It's my brother (or father or uncle) once wrote the DOI in the snow. "Wee the Peeple....."

Females don't have that ability like males do.
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Epiphany2b
Always waiting for the light to dawn
10:03 PM on 01/22/2011
Now, just think of all the unusual things that have come from Japan in the last year. This is innovation, entrepreneurship at it's finest. Come on, American inventors, think outside the box! And the bathroom, if you don't mind.
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Plaines d' Abraham
10:13 AM on 01/22/2011
I guess this is the ultimate "P#ssing Contest"... ;-)

Thanks Japan! How about working this hard on a cure for cancer?
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Freenation
11:49 PM on 01/21/2011
sick
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Marc Derrick Chua Yap
10:49 PM on 01/21/2011
And now a quote from Black Adder Goes Forth

"How lucky you people are to find the toilet so amusing. For us, it is a mundane and functional item. For you it is the basis of an entire culture."
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05:28 PM on 01/21/2011
I wonder if there is like a bombing range game for pooping in the works ? or something for the ladies, perhaps ?
04:49 PM on 01/21/2011
Okay, this is amazing... I want one.
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dbrett480
02:33 PM on 01/21/2011
If this doesn't prove that the Japanese are the weirdest culture then I don't know what does.
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LisaO8
You're gonna need a bigger boat.
02:06 PM on 01/21/2011
What is their fascination with pee-pee and poopy?!
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MarcEdward
likes all cats more than most people
12:48 PM on 01/21/2011
What a spunky idea.