Ah, those wacky Germans

[Mr.Blue_Sky]

As if playing videogames isn’t a big enough pain:

Painstation

Read the Lead Story.

[JRootabega]

There is an arcade game out now called Addams Family Shocker, in which you grip some handles and have to endure and increasing voltage. The thing is, I’m not sure it’s actual electricity; it is more likely just vibration. And Google isn’t being nice to me searching for this one. But the concept itself isn’t new.

[_your_name_here]

i did that addams family shocker thing. i think it’s just vibrations. whatever, i still did the whole supposed “4,000” watts. impressive, eh?

didn’t think so.

[Skywatcher]

You think these guys were inspired by A View to a Kill?

Wired article
The concept is simple. Two players eyeball each other over a table console. The left-hand is positioned on a sensor field – otherwise know as a PEU, or Pain Execution Unit. When both players have made this electric contact, the game, and the real fun, commences.

The game itself is based on the first-generation PC game known as Pong, or bar tennis, and is followed by both players through a graphics display in the center of the table. The player’s right hand controls the bat, and the object of the game is to keep the ball in play as long as possible.

The game ends only when one of the players decides that the pain is too much to bear and lifts a hand off the PEU. All of which sounds straightforward, but in truth games often continue long past the point where common sense has given way to stubborn machismo.

[tiny_ham]

mmmmmm German machismo…

I’ve played the “shocker” game at Dave and Busters here in Chicago. It’s a huge electric chair and you get prize tickets for how long you can stand the shock.

It’s the first thing I do whenever I go there.