VIDEO: Giant Tetris & other arcade offerings us Americans will never enjoy

They say the primary reason why the arcade died is because it stopped offering things that couldn’t be replicated at home. Well, that might be the case in America, but in Japan, arcades are stronger than ever… also, weirder.

Case in point: Tetris, the game we all know like know and love, bigger. MUCH bigger…

But even that’s fairly pedestrian compared to other offerings available. If rotating and placing blocks is not your thing, how about… channeling those painful memories from you childhood, of when your dad after a long day at the office, would be prone to outbursts at the dinner table? It’s called Cho Chabudai Gaeshi, and the goal of the game is to see how much stuff you can break at the dinner table…

If that’s still not wild enough, how about an arcade game that one won’t find in on the arcade floor proper, but the bathroom? That’s where Toirettsu (which is a play on the words “toy” and “toilets” in Japanese) can be found. It’s basically a collection of mini-games that you play via your urination. They range from the innocent, like erasing graffiti, to the more questionable, like dispersing “milk” from some on-screen character’s noses. Yeah right…

Though the holy grail of “OMG WTF JAPAN!!!” games was actually developed in South Korea (but for the Japanese market). Called Boong-Ga Boong-Ga, or Spank’em, the object of the game is to perform one of two actions. Either you spank a hapless “victim” (the cast of characters that you inflict such misery upon includes an ex-girlfriend, ex-boyfriend, mother in low, gold digger, prostitute… or get this, a child molester) or you do a kancho on them. Which is a Japanese practical joke involving you sticking your fingers up the ass of someone that’s distracted. The highlight of the arcade unite was the protruding ass, plus a gigantic hand with the index finger extended, to do the aforementioned poking.

I’ve looked high and low for videos featuring the kancho and have found nothing, but here’s the spanking part in action at least…

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