November 25, 2007
While they maybe fine with gaming with one type of Wii, Belgian gendarmes clearly have issues with the other.As reported by Engadget, Place to Pee, a driving game controlled via urination, has been given the chop by police in Gent. The game was on display at the GamePower Expo, but cops there ultimately found it indecent.
Ironically, Place to Pee contains an anti-drunk driving message which you'd think authorities might find redeeming.
GP: We're a bit behind the curve on this story, but it's important to me that GamePolitics be a comprehensive, searchable record of all things politically related to gaming, so...
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-5rGYOhGW0
I'll bet the toilets would be unbeareable due to that game thanks to players who "miss their targets"
:O
Nightwng2000
NW2K Software
What I know:
The game plays on a screen at eye level above the urinal.
The game is a racing game.
The urinal has a pad in it that registers the "stream" of input.
What I theorize:
The steadier the stream on the pad the straighter the car drives on the track.
The more varied the stream, the more the car swerves and veers off its course.
The game then judges the motions of the car to determine what anti-drunk driving message to give the player (if he is not too drunk to comprehend it)
After considering this, I think the game is a great idea and should not have been given this ban.
E. Zachary Knight
Divine Knight Gaming
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Nightwng2000
NW2K Software
It'd be interesting to keep you occupied if you get bored extremely quickly, but why on earth would there be a ban on it? Are they afraid the screen might be stolen, or (god forbid) the controllers? Who'd want a peed on pad? You'd literally have to CREATE the fetish for it to exist! Do they think people would be more tempted to crap on them? Seriously, what other problems could be posed? A dog eating the controller? (Dogs aren't allowed in restaurants, let alone the bathrooms) It's absolutely mind-boggling that there is some problem with this for it to be banned! Granted it's a stupid idea in the first place, but hey, let them do whatever the hell they want with their money!
Seriously, I never thought I'd see this in a lifetime.
I'm still laughing my ass off over that.
- Warren Lewis
I got nothin either.
Wow. I... wow.
BWUH?! O.o;;
Comments: Funnier
Just too fucking funny for words.
http://gamepolitics.com/2007/05/08/hey-jack-you-want-fries-with-that/
I love our French Fries and chocolat
ooh well :)
What this is is a way to grind in the message about Drinking and driving its a message that needs to be shocked into some, while this is more humorous or in slight bad taste the message out wighs any embarrassment(moralistic or otherwise) wrought.
November 25th, 2007 at 5:48 pm
Ther’es probably another reason why this game is banned.---
there's more to it for sure, there's no such thing as indecency in Europe, this is the sort of thing i would expect from the U.S not Belgium. we need more info...
My hunch is that the game could be perceived as making toilets as shitholes since the more people play it, the more people will "MISS the mark", if you know what I mean.
Heck, I know this game won't be popular in my country, Malaysia. Heck, our public toilets are pretty much rooms filled with radioactive wastes. Yes they're THAT bad. So bad, that our local politcal cartoonist made a joke about how America made a horror movie about them.
The only safe way to drink and drive, is to not drink.. the only legal way, is to stay below the limit. If this game were around, how many idiots would say to themselves "well, this game says I can drive!".
Some kind of game.
For when the bowel movements come forth and you have nothing to do.
Maybe Grand Theft Toilet Bowl or something...
I guess women would be annoyed because they can't play it...well, most women.
If I can find that image, I'd post it. Basically, there's a urinal with a painting of a fly on it. Due to this, most people would purposely aim at it to eliminate an annoying fly. They found that more people did indeed try this and there were less messes. This also was in Germany, so it wouldn't be surprising if it also happened in Belgium.