Piss-Screen debuts, sadly lacks multiplayer I didn’t know drunken driving had reached a point where the standard warnings were no longer effective. Apparently, it’s now up to video games — those bastions of appropriate moral and social values — to convince drunks to take a cab home. That’s where the Piss-Screen comes into play. According to the Web site, this Saatchi & Saatchi project in Germany created “a pressure-sensitive inlay set within urinals, enabling users to play while they pee. ... The game itself was displayed on a screen above each urinal and would automatically start as soon as someone began to pee. The player could then control the car whilst relieving himself.” The idea here is that said player would pee his car into a purposely graphic wreck due to his impaired reaction time, and hopefully he'd connect that result with his own fate should he drive himself home in that condition. (It's an ad for a taxi service.) What they failed to recognize was that video games are fun, so people would probably end up drinking more just so they could go play Peed For Speed in the bathroom. No, what drunks need is a game so frustrating that it sobers them up, and fortunately, such a game exists. Hat tip once again to Presurfer. —Posted by David Kiefaber

August 17, 2007 in Kiefaber | Permalink

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I just played the Adventures of Bayou Billy and I can verify that it's frickin' impossible. Nicely done Adfreak.

Posted by: | Aug 17, 2007 2:58:38 PM

When I was a kid, when we played at the urinals, we didn't have video games...

Posted by: w | Aug 17, 2007 3:43:46 PM

Bayou Billy might be the most realistic game ever made. I remember it was like three knife stabbings you die and the quicksand...well it's actually quick. Let me tell you something, there's nothing sobering about the Bayou.

Side note. People that live on the Bayou apparently don't know they live on something call the Bayou. I've asked them.

Posted by: D | Aug 17, 2007 4:52:21 PM

Electro^Plankton got the title right: When Is A Wii Not A Wii?

http://www.tranism.com/weblog/2007/08/when_is_a_wii_n.html

Posted by: Kirk | Aug 17, 2007 6:04:16 PM

I can already see 8 dudes grabbing beers and then heading into the bathroom as a gang to go check out each others driving skills. And you're right, I imagine they would drink more...they wouldn't be spending any money on arcade bowling or darts, so there'd be more to go around.

Posted by: Ian EBH | Aug 19, 2007 6:56:49 PM

Innovation can do so many things, gaming in pees.. the toilets are now gonna be full

Posted by: Design for MySpace | Aug 19, 2007 10:36:29 PM

I said it before and will say it again here. People can't keep their pee in the urinal when they focus on the task on hand, so will they now pee on the shoes of the guy next to them as their eyes are fixed on a video screen?

:-)

Posted by: Herbert | Aug 20, 2007 7:13:16 AM

For those who feel out of the loop on the Bayou Billy reference, allow me to include you thusly:

http://www.everyvideogame.com/play-nes-Adventures_of_Bayou_Billy%2c_The_%28U%29.htm

Frickin' impossible.

Posted by: Dorkface | Aug 20, 2007 1:57:41 PM

So it's still a video game operated by a joy stick.

Posted by: Ash Haimd | Aug 23, 2007 5:58:40 AM

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