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Sega makes Toylets available to the Japanese public
Sega is now selling its line of Toylets to the Japanese public. Yes, as in video game toilet rigs, and exactly what you were thinking when you saw the word "Toylet." The base unit will set uninspired urinators back 140,000 yen (around $1750) and each game will cost a total of 10,000 yen ($125) each. Finally, there's the unlisted price of having to tell everyone why you've got thousands of dollars worth of entertainment in your bathroom.Sega has been a big player in the toilet-gaming space with its line in bars and other public establishments in Japan for a few years now. If there's something that'll help the company get out of its slump, it's got to be expensive gaming toilets.
Sega urinal game 'Toylets' goes on sale to general public, sink companion still missing (video)
In an effort to reduce male patron's messiness (and grab some cash from locales not necessarily associated with gaming) Sega's Toylets can now be found in restrooms across Japan -- and even in a handful of cities overseas. You won't need to make the laborious trek to your nearest bar or arcade to beat the high score any more, however, as Sega's now put the urinal games terminal up for sale to (Japanese) Joe Public. A sensor at the base will detect pressure and, er, volume which acts as the controls. A screen at eye level will show your progress, and you can expect several short-but-sweet games in the style of Rhythm Tengoku or Warioware. It all comes a price though -- you'll need to stump up 140,000 yen (around $1750) for the device itself and 10,000 yen ($125) a piece for games. The porcelain is (unfortunately) not included.
Sega Toylets lets you game with your boy bits (video)
Sega, the once proud innovator of console design, is back in the gaming hardware business! Only not in the fashion you might think. The company has just rolled out a trial of its Toylets system, which embeds a pressure sensor into otherwise innocuous urinals and gives life to every bad piece of joystick-related innuendo you ever heard. Four games are available right now, to be enjoyed through a display mounted at eye level, including one where the intensity of your delivery helps blow a girl's skirt up and another that offers (asynchronous!) multiplayer competition. The latter game matches you against the previous dude to have used the porcelain repository, thereby finally providing Japanese men with a measurable way to settle pissing contests. It's official: we're moving to Japan.
