Posted by The O~* in Phantoms at ip67-89-7-194.z7-89-67.customer.algx.net on September 22, 2003 at 13:39:57:
In Reply to: True Story MUST READ posted by lil clerk on September 22, 2003 at 13:37:15:
: Call it a golden opportunity: Pressed to create a class project, Massachusetts Institute of Technology graduate students Dan Maynes-Aminzade and Hayes Solos Raffle combined their love of computer-science and toilet-hummor skillsto craft the world's first pee-powered videogame. Called you're in control (think about the name for a sec... OK, continue), it combines an LCD monitorwith a urinal-mounted sensor pad and circutry encased in waterproff (naturaly) housing. Players aim and fire their biological "weapons" and trigger the onscreen action by hitting the urinal's target sensors. The Point? "We wanted to reintroduce some fun into the act of peeing," says Maynes-Aminzade. "It provides a refreshing release." He notes there are other perks, such as digital territory marking to satisfy those primal urges. (Women can satisfy those urges, too... the students devised a squit-gun like peripheral). The pair hopes the device will be picked up by chain restaurants, bars - any place that provides players with lots of ammunition. You will have to pee to play, after all. but hopefully you won't have to pay. It cost the pair almost $2,000 to create the prototype, but they hope to bring that down to $500.Maynes-Aminzade acknowledges the biological constraints, namely the finite size of the male bladder, are a basic game-design flaw. That's why he made three games that are simple enough to play in 20 seconds including one tat has players douse a runing vice president Dick Cheney (think about the name a second... OK continue). Multiplayer "tag-teaming" is posible strategy, too. And as for aggresive players, Maynes-Aminzade hopes they "won't abuse their joysticks too much." Hahaha.
: SO THIS IS A TRUE STORY I JUST SAW IN A VIDEOGAME MAGAZINE. SO DON'T THINK I'M FULL OF IT (NO PUN INTENDED)