The World Is Not Only Weirder Than We Imagine

[womzilla]

.... it also had Japanese arcade games in it.

Boong-Ga Boong-Ga

(Link found by following up the "witch-poking game" mentioned this month on Penny Arcade.)

This is a fun game of spanking the people that make your life miserable. When you spank the character that you choose to punish, the face expression of the character will change as they scream and twitch in pain. The funny face expressions will make people laugh and relieve stress.

In action:

http://www.syberpunk.com/images/misc/boonga/boonga3.jpg



Two advertising mascots:

http://www.syberpunk.com/images/misc/boonga/boonga4.jpg

Comments

[ookpik.livejournal.com]

That is indeed weird.

(Were there supposed to be pictures of the advertising mascots? None are showing up here. However, I have to say that the description makes me wonder how Boston would have reacted if those, rather than a talking burger and fries, had been the mascots displayed in the January incident.)

[womzilla.livejournal.com]

There seems to be some sort of referring-url image protection at work here. I'll post the links to the pictures.