Toylets
From Sega Retro
To do
- Find a proper Toylet logo.
- Clean up Toylet template icon.
- Create Toylet omni.
- Create section about cost, Free Play mode, and the 10 yen coin box.
- Create section about hardware design, how it mostly conceals the downward-facing sensor, why that's important for this kind of product. And how they undid a lot of that concealment with the front-facing infrared "user detector" sensor.
- Consider removing list of games, leaving MainArticle and that brief summary, but regardless write a unique summary for the dedicated List of Toylet games page (basically a brief big-picture look at the average takeaway from their playstyles, why there were only 8 games, and why 2 were essentially just v2 updates.)
- Create section about interactive urinals, brief history of the idea, and that while virtually all previous attempts were art projects/very limited release, the Toylet was really the first that was an actual sold product for installation anywhere, and with customer support for over a decade.
- Research game distribution method (USB sticks?) and what OS the system actually runs and is most equivalent to for comparison.
- Research the degree of balance which Toylet's games actually have. Many appear to be simple "push harder for bigger number" games, but I'm curious as to whether AM1 went in and gave significant consideration to the intricacies of the gameplay balance... does it get harder in "higher levels"?
- Research how many games could be played on a Toylet at once, and if the system even offered the ability to change between games.
- Tag all Toylet-related images with relevant tags.
- Games were about $125, system was about $1750.
- Looks like there was a 10 yen coin box attachment.
- There was an additional piece of the system I'm seeing, just a variation on the screen that houses it in a clean frosted-glass enclosure (see here and here for examples).
- Sales ended in May 2016 (both main unit and software), maintenance ended in March 2021. ref.
- The official website lists a total of 180 installed locations in Japan. The real count is likely much higher than that, both depending on when they stopped updating that page and the amount of non-listed, private, or second-hand installations.
- So I'm seeing NOTHING for Graffiti Eraser. No promos, no ads, no press releases. We have- almost one screenshot (its cropped), some off-camera footage, and a few mentions from news articles around its trade show appearances/launch. Which is curious, because its easily the most interactive and game-like experience, but even I ended up writing a thing about how its the game which could cause the most "spills". Is there any correlation here? Did Sega have this great idea on paper (and its a honkin great idea imo), but then in implementation realized people were whipping their- "handheld interfaces" back and forth and getting urine outside of the basin? And then reeled it out of most promotional material? I don't know, maybe it's just not popping up much, but there really needs to be verification of any correlation between gameplay and decreased bathroom cleanliness here.
- A dedicated section on Toylet's less as an upgrade to an existing installed toilet and more as an investment in a promotable attraction. I touched on this previously but the more I do research, people were installing Toylets left and right for their notoriety. To such an extent that the official website lists a section of reviews/thoughts from venue owners post-installation, and the majority are saying that their customers are specifically coming in to experience the Toylets. One even called it a "show/event in the bathroom". Which isn't too far off honestly.
- Owners are saying it reduces both maintenance AND mischief/vandalism/etc in bathrooms. Which I can totally see. Most bathrooms are solid concrete indestructible things, but then you walk into a Toylet-equipped restroom and its suddenly like oh there's a dedicated system here and there are wires and electronics everywhere, and I feel like all of that kinda contributes to a slight "no broken windows" thing.
- Just a thought: how do you actually activate a Toylet game? Is there just one always running per urinal, ready to go, and you just walk up and it starts "detecting" and starts the game? I suppose this ties into the whole "could a system run more than one game at a time" question. And this FURTHER brings up the question of how the whole "save your high scores to a USB drive" thing works: There aren't any user-accessible buttons otherwise, so presumably you'd just plug your drive in and the Toylet would just- force your scores onto your USB? which- brings up yet ANOTHER question of interface: at first sight, I thought the Toylet had a touchscreen. I know that's dumb in retrospect (a touchscreen. in a bathroom.) but hey. No touchscreen, no buttons the player can access... I really can't see any way Toylets could have run more that one game at a time (outside of maybe some time-based revolving system to switch the game from an internal selection of a few more, jukebox style?)
CartridgeCulture (talk) 01:52, 3 November 2021 (EDT)
Product codes
- (SLS07E990513005): Screen?
- (SLS07E990513006): Unknown hardware
- (SLS07E990513007): Unknown hardware
- (SLS07E990513008): Mannekin Pis
- (SLS07E990513009): Splash Battle! Milky Nose
- (SLS07E990513010): The North Wind and The Sun... And Me
- (SLS07E990513011): Panel Quiz Super Urine~Power
- (SLS07E990513012): At the Urine Checker
- (SLS07E990513013): 10 yen coin box attachment.
- (SLS07E9905130XX): Collect! Manneken Pis: Deluxe Edition
- (SLS07E9905130XX): Milk from the Nose: Banchou Battle
- (SLS07E9905130XX): Graffiti Eraser
Researching "pressure-sensitive" Toylets?
Hello! If you're researching a pressure-sensitive element to the Toylet, just a heads-up: It appears the term 'pressure-sensitive' was used a few times in promotional material to describe the way the system's sensor works. The Toylet doesn't actually have a pressure sensor, or what we would know in the West as like, a dedicated pad or device in the rear of the urinal which physically detects liquid being hit against it. They were really saying "the fancy camera sensor is calibrated so it knows when you're pushing out more." Basically it just Wii sensorbars what's going on down there, and when it sees the width and/or splash radius of the stream increase in relation to the bulls-eye, the Toylet knows when you're urinating with more "pressure".
To further elaborate, the system was specifically-designed to not require such a sensor, and to be used with virtually any urinal produced. Which was one of its big selling points, and one of the features Sega hoped would carry their interactive toilet past novelty to a commercially-viable product. Which still didn't happen, but Sega more or less did everything correctly on this one, and it was just the fact that the interactive urinal market doesn't really exist in any meaningful way. CartridgeCulture (talk) 22:52, 7 November 2021 (EST)
List of games
Moving the following table here while the library gets migrated to individual game pages.
| Collect! Manneken Pis (溜めろ！小便小僧) | |
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| Named after the eponymous urinating Belgian statue, Collect! Manneken Pis awards the player a score based on how much they can urinate. As the game proceeds, the background slowly fades to a sunset. Stands as one of the system's more recognizable games, with a caricature of Manneken Pis serving as the Toylet's official mascot.
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| Splash Battle! Milk from the Nose (鼻から牛乳) | |
| Perhaps the system's most recognized game, Splash Battle! Milk from the Nose allows players to compete against the game's previous player by comparing the strength of their streams. Urine strength is represented by jets of milk shot from the noses of two characters matched in a sumo ring - the stronger stream will eventually blast the weaker opponent from the ring.
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The North Wind and The Sun... And Me |
| Playing the role of an animate cloud of wind, The North Wind and The Sun... And Me has players attempt to lift a nearby woman's skirt by blowing gusts of air in her direction. The strength of the cloud's gusts depends on the strength of user's urination.
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Panel Quiz Super Urine~Power (パネルクイズ超ニョ〜力) |
| Panel Quiz Super Urine~Power challenges players to flip a random selection of six different cards by the strength of their urination, with each card being flipped at a different interval on a rising bar (similar to a strength tester). The game is loosely themed around an American television game show, and features a vaguely tarot card-like presentation. | |
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At the Urine Checker (尿内チェッカー) |
| At the Urine Checker is a humorous fortune-telling-like game in which players visit a urologist and have their urine checked for their "true intentions". Urinating into a large glass vial shaped like a penis, the doctor then judges players' on the emotional feedback received by their urine upon completion. | |
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Collect! Manneken Pis: Deluxe Edition (溜めろ！小便小僧 デラックス版) |
| A deluxe edition of Manneken Pis. | |
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Milk from the Nose: Banchou Battle (鼻から牛乳 (番長バトル)) |
| A deluxe edition of Milk from the Nose. | |
| Graffiti Eraser | |
| Graffiti Eraser challenges players to pressure wash a graffiti-covered wall by directing their urine streams back and forth across the urinal's basin wall. The equipped sensor tracks the movement of the stream, allowing players to view their changes in direction upon the Toylet's screen in real time.
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