Is this the stupidest peripheral ever?

Sometimes mere words fail to do this beautiful world full justice. So it is with , a urine-operated, urinal-housed controller recently installed in a Frankfurt bar, and de🎐signed to react to a hosing down by toilet-visiting gameไrs. The mind boggles.

But is this the stupidest videogame peripheral the world has ever ♐seen? Sadly, the answer is quite probably "No!" As this list of ridiculous, mental and sometimes troubling plug-in-ables can prove...

Above: The Piss Screen in action. Remember, more than three spins is a *snip! GamesRadar Ed*

The Piss Screen
Created in response to what looks like a marketing brief - encourage people to take taxis after a few drinks, rather than risk driving themselves - this peripheral is really thinking outside the box. Aiming to reach the target audience "in a fresh andeffective way," the Piss Screen enables urinal users to enjoy a Need for Speed style racing game by splashing their waters against pressure sensitive control pads. Although exactly how "fresh" it would be at 2am on a Sunday morning is barely worth cons🍷idering.

They say: "The player can control the car whilst relieving himself"; "Requires relatively quick reflexes"; "The game ultimately culminates in a shocking crash-sequence, leaving the vi⛎ewer with little doubt as to the repercussio🦂ns of driving while drunk."

What they don't say: "Demands considerable bladder size and stream control"; "Don't forget to use both hands!"; "The time an𒐪d effort put into designing the piss-operated device leaves the viewer with little doubt as to the repercussions of allowing marketing teams to embrace blue sky thinking."

Ben Richardson is a former Staff Writer for Official🔥 PlayStation 2 magazine and a former Content Editor of GamesRadar+. In the years since Ben left GR, he has worked as a columnist, communications officer, charity coach, and podcast host – but we still look back to his news stories from time to time, they are a window into a different era of video games.