Games
Park To Play Lets You Use Your Car as a Gaming Joystick
Posted by Addy Dugdale at 8:58 PM on October 23, 2007
Esoteric Dutch blog Fresh Creation went to the Holland Innovation fair in, surprise, the Netherlands, and they found this crazy little — well, big, actually — thing. Park To Play lets you play games — Pong, Tetris, Pinball, Space Invaders etc — with your car. Yep, you didn't hear wrong. Part art installation, part crazy, what-have-they-been-smoking-over-in-them-thar-low-countries-coffee-houses, they've rigged out the steering wheel and doors with sensors so that you can use the car to control the game. Headlights, brakes, car doors, they all become buttons to control the game with. I like the fact that the pinball flippers are controlled by the car doors. [Fresh Creation]

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tys
Posted 10:21 PM 23/10/07
Finally, I have a use for that broken down 2CV sitting in the garage!
tys
siuengr
Posted 5:29 PM 23/10/07
Too bad Microsoft and Nissan came up with the idea a year and a half ago, and made the Nissan Urge concept with a Xbox 360 integrated.
[www.microsoft.com]
siuengr
rimplestultskin
Posted 4:29 PM 23/10/07
interesting idea.
definitely more novelty than practical, but it looks pretty damn fun.
rimplestultskin
Amiash
Posted 11:04 AM 23/10/07
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Amiash
Amiash
Posted 11:04 AM 23/10/07
my niece said that it is much better than the "new xbox arcade" haha!
Amiash
dramatism
Posted 10:17 AM 23/10/07
Fellow Giz Readers - can't anything just be for the fun of it? I seriously doubt that car was road worthy anyways.
dramatism
MikeHinds
Posted 9:34 AM 23/10/07
Pole Position?
MikeHinds
Krondonian
Posted 9:23 AM 23/10/07
If you have a real car as a joypad...why play pinball?! A racing game might just have worked...
Krondonian
JRo
Posted 8:36 AM 23/10/07
Yeah... this'll catch on.
JRo
strider_mt2k
Posted 7:16 AM 23/10/07
As someone having ongoing issues with common wear points on an automobile I can't say that I like this.
strider_mt2k