Urine-Controlled Game Developed in Germany

Andy Chalk

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Urine-Controlled Game Developed in Germany


A company in Germany has designed a new kind of videogame designed to encourage bar patrons who've had a few drinks to take a taxi instead of attempting to drive.

Known as the Piss-Screen, the system is built around a pressure-sensitive inlay inserted into urinals that's connected to a video screen mounted on the wall. The game, a Need For Speed [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Need_for_Speed_series]-style driving title, begins automatically when the player starts to pee, with steering controlled by the stream. Pee to the right to turn to the right; pee to the left to turn to the left. The game requires fairly quick reactions, which helps emphasize the deleterious effects of alcohol on potential drunk drivers; the drunker you are, the worse your performance in the game, which ultimately ends with a "shocking" crash scene.

Piss-Screen is being developed by the German firm Piss-Screen website [http://www.saatchi.de/local/Home.asp?undefined].


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