Sega Toylet

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The Sega Toylet ( Japanese ト イ レ ッ ツ , Toirettsu for Toylets ) is a urinal gaming system , a mixture of urinal and video game , by the Japanese manufacturer Sega .

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The Sega Toylet is one of the so-called interactive urinals and was developed by the game manufacturer Sega for the Japanese market. It has been in use in public toilets on the Tokyo Metro since 2011 and has been on general sale since 2012. The name is a suitcase word from toy , engl. 'Game', and toilet , engl. ,Toilet'. The price per unit in 2012 was 140,000  yen (about 990  euros ), plus 10,000 yen (about 71 euros) per game program. The Sega Toylet is only available in Japan.

The urinal has a screen on which video games are shown, which can be controlled by means of a sensor system via the direction, strength and duration of the user's urine stream. Sega advertises that the ability to play increases the users' "accuracy" and that the cleaning intervals for urinals and urinal areas or rooms can be extended.

There are four games to choose from:

  • Manneken Pis (after the Manneken Pis in Brussels ) only measures the amount of urine given off.
  • In Graffiti Eraser , a virtual graffiti must be removed by changing the direction of the beam
  • In The Northern Wind, The Sun and Me , the user has to control a virtual wind by means of the strength of the beam and try to blow up a woman's dress
  • Battle! Milk From Nose compares the urine stream of the current user with that of the previous one and lets the stronger win a virtual sumo fight.

The score achieved for each game can be saved on a USB stick and uploaded to the Internet leaderboard.

In the computer game Yakuza Kiwami 2 from 2018, also developed by Sega for PlayStation 4 and Windows , there are quotes from the urinal. They are built into the game world as functional objects and can be used by the game character. The player can thereby play the mini-games in a form adapted to the virtual game world.

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  1. ^ A b Daniel Feit: Sega Begins Sales of Urine-Powered 'Toylet' Videogame , Wired April 30, 2012 (accessed March 26, 2014).
  2. ↑ Toylets: high score in the bathroom break , Spiegel Online dated 19 January 2011 (accessed 26 March 2014).
  3. ↑ Info , subpage of the website for Sega Toylet, Sega (as of and accessed March 30, 2014, Japanese).
  4. ↑ Julian Ryall: Sega launches urinal game consoles in Japan , The Daily Telegraph , January 19, 2012 (accessed March 26, 2014).
  5. ^ Products , subpage of the Sega Toylet website, Sega (as of and accessed March 26, 2014, Japanese).
  6. ↑ Duncan Geere: Sega Urinal Game , Wired January 6, 2011 (accessed March 26, 2014).
  7. ↑ JC Fletcher: Yakuza Kiwami 2 delivers on the potential of a 10-year-old game. In: polygon . August 29, 2018, accessed October 11, 2019 .