Today in Joystiq: December 27, 2006

by Ross Miller { Dec 27th 2006 at 11:59PM }

The above Flickr photo, from user OneLove69, comes from COEX Mall in Seoul, South Korea. Those who walk by can kick the balls into the hole in the center. Check out the highlights for today:

Joystiquery
Ad critic: cooking with Wii
So watcha get for Consumermas?
Today's hottest game video: Japanese fighter

News
Old 'New Rally-X' on Xbox Live Arcade
Nintendo makes another small step in Korea
Another Silent Hill film in the cards
Tekken 5 on PS3 PlayStation Store in Japan, Hong Kong
Pokemon struggles on Wii
XBL Arcade's Worms HD nears completion
PlayStation 3 is a decent bargain, as a Blu-ray player
Wired News: 2006 vaporware awards
Buy Halo 3 Beta invitation, get Crackdown (for free!)
Capcom supporting Xbox 360 more than PS3 & Wii, for now
Blocking business targets gaming at the workplace
Child's Play profiled by NY Times
Spotted: Kill Bill Xbox 360 faceplate

Culture
Bond with your (American) office mates through Call of Duty
Wii woes: some win, some lose, some sing blues
What will Foxtrot artist do with his free time?
More Wii titles we'll never see

Tags: daily recap, DailyRecap

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

NoBullet @ Dec 28th 2006 12:17AM

They have the exact same thing here in California at the Brea Mall.

Vacc @ Dec 28th 2006 12:24AM

ya and they had it at the garden state plaza in paramus, new jersey... not that great

Matt @ Dec 28th 2006 12:24AM

The Liberty Tree Mall in Massachusetts has one of these too.

Dopple Boppler @ Dec 28th 2006 12:27AM

I've seen the exact same thing, and in a random mall in south eastern Wisconsin no less.

nick @ Dec 28th 2006 12:29AM

You can also find something like this in Las Vegas, in the MGM Grand Hotel, almost near the CBS Store

There's a couple of different games it cycles through. One has fish. There's one with bubbles.

Knoxximus @ Dec 28th 2006 12:38AM

They had one with spaceships you could step on to blow up at E3 '06.

k0sm0s @ Dec 28th 2006 12:49AM

This device can be found in singapore. Malls and train stations have them. There are some effects really cool, like water waves happening as you walk over, and kicking the balls around.

Stephen Knowles @ Dec 28th 2006 1:17AM

They have one at the Rave Movie Theater in Hickory Creek, TX.....a cruddy little town about 20 miles outside Dallas.

calviin @ Dec 28th 2006 1:27AM

They have it in Oxford Valley Mall in Langhorne, PA; halfway between Philladelphia, PA and Trenton, NJ.

You don't need to go to South Korea for these kinda things, and while they don't say so above, it seems implied and thats not any better.

Rubang @ Dec 28th 2006 1:51AM

I saw one in a Best Buy in Pasadena, California.

buba @ Dec 28th 2006 2:11AM

They had one at e3 one year in the nintendo booth

CoolPoochie @ Dec 28th 2006 6:23AM

oh no.
they have one of these in the staten island mall, the worst mall in the history of malls... they put it in the middle of a busy intersection too, and there are always little kids running around it, knocking into people.

dead_ox @ Dec 28th 2006 7:56AM

dude, even a mall in DELAWARE has one of those. this isn't really news.

Tim T. @ Dec 28th 2006 8:04AM

Yeah, they used to have one at Lowes Theater in Freehold, NJ. It's really nothing special. Your shadow really gets in the way.

Ethan Rom @ Dec 28th 2006 8:20AM

There is one of those in the Lehigh Valley Mall in Whitehall, PA.
I like the hockey game the best. :)

Jason @ Dec 28th 2006 8:52AM

Sony Metreon in SF has one of these as well.

BustahWolf @ Dec 28th 2006 8:58AM

Didn't Nick Arcade use this type of tech. for those final round challenges? Or am I just mixing things up?

The MIT Museum has that old labyrinth game (the wooden maze that you rotate to move a marble to the end) on that type of interface. Tried it out once when I was up there, definately difficult to pull off quick turns when you have to jump around. An old roommate of mine tells me it's a lot of fun when to play drunk.

Josh @ Dec 28th 2006 9:23AM

The company that makes these systems in the US is Reactrix: http://www.reactrix.com/

There are tons of them in Massachusetts. Movie theaters and malls.

raptor5001 @ Dec 28th 2006 9:37AM

Haha, I live in Seoul. These things are spread all over. Little kids are always playing with the ones at Lotte World.

Bartender Sam @ Dec 28th 2006 10:35AM

Pentagon City Mall in Washington DC has something like this.

christophrr @ Dec 28th 2006 10:50AM

Willowbrook Mall in Houston has one. It's somewhat hidden, though.

0m3g4 @ Dec 28th 2006 11:09AM

Ontario Science Centre has 2 that are ten times the size and alot more fun

Bryan @ Dec 28th 2006 11:34AM

I stayed at the hotel attached to the COEX Mall just this summer. They had dozens of them throughout the mall. They'd rotate ads with different interactive games, but most people tended to ignore them. Every so often I'd see children or a couple messing around with them.