Game Company Uses Breasts to Get Players
In Japan, business is war.
And nowhere is this truer than in the gaming industry where every game developer tries to outsmart (and thereby, also outsell) the next rival, by coming up with innovative ways of doing business.
So the creators of the PC-based game Married Women Harem: This is the Married Women Paradise Inn, came up with an unusual ad strategy to draw customers—through boobs (genuinely-fake ones).
If you go up to the fifth floor of the recently-opened megastore (September 2007) of the Japanese electronics retailer, Sofmap, in the heart of the Akihabara shopping district, you’ll be greeted with not the regular pile of fliers and brochures, but life-sized cardboard cutouts fitted with ginormous silicone-breasts draped in sexy lingerie.
And what’s more, they’re meant to be fondled.
That’s right.
A large sign that reads, “Squeeze All You Want,†actually tells a buyer that’s it quite all right, to cop a feel.
What could happen next is that you may want to fill out that (pre) order form, before you exit the store.
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By Alakananda Mookerjee on 02-05-2008
Comment by tourex
May 2nd, 2008 at 2:18 am
Why just breasts? To be fair, they should have silicone penises as well.Considering Japan is a sexist country,it’s no wonder.
Comment by DARKWING DUCK
May 2nd, 2008 at 9:32 am
That’s probably what it meant when my horoscope said “KABOOM
Comment by Nina
May 4th, 2008 at 10:27 am
Why isn’t America so open like Japan!!! I’d love to see random things out there
Comment by Chris
May 6th, 2008 at 1:26 am
I actually came across these this weekend. Sofmap isn’t on my normal stop list but it was close to a store that was damn near giving away 2GB memory cards. I was sad I didn’t have anything better than my cell phone to cap a photo. Thanks!
Comment by rightuos
May 6th, 2008 at 8:27 am
Because it’s America, and in America if people see something they could pretend to have offended them they run to the nearest attorneys (snakes) office.
Comment by Seriously Calm Down
June 5th, 2008 at 9:41 pm
“Considering Japan is a sexist country,it’s no wonder.”
Wow, I wish I lived in the “non-sexist” country that Tourex lives in.
So, um … just which country *is* that again? I can’t find it on any of my maps or globes.
One thing about Japan though: I can guarantee that there are countless women who walk up to the display, give it a good “squeeze” and then laugh ’til their sides hurt.
“Sexist” or not, people in Japan (women and men alike) aren’t outraged about sex or even worried about it all that much.
– But why aren’t people in Japan as upset about sex issues?
The reason for this has a lot to do with the divergent social norms of eastern and western (er, actually “mid-eastern”) religions. One prime example of these religious/social underpinnings: Abraham mutilated his own penis in an act of insanity, shortly after hearing voices in his head and trying to murder his own son … Buddha did not. This is no isolated comparison. It is part of a greater pattern.
Comment by rockinghorseguy
June 6th, 2008 at 7:34 pm
Hey, it’s japan, if they had a penis, it would have to be pixelated.
Comment by Just A Casual Passer-By
June 8th, 2008 at 10:35 am
Sounds to me like “Seriously Calm Down” has gone a little insane himself – Abraham did NOT mutilate himself, at least not according to any sources known to man. And he didn’t attempt to murder his own son – he just obeyed God to give a picture of what would happen to Jesus nearly 2000 years later, namely that he would die as a sacrifice and rise again. Of course Buddha didn’t do that – he didn’t do anything much except talk and meditate, I gather.
Comment by Heather
June 12th, 2008 at 8:54 pm
I don’t think so. Think of the children.
Comment by Mighty
October 23rd, 2008 at 5:53 pm
Seriously. What’s wrong with you people? 1) You’re knocking America (for this!?) and 2) you actually think anyone SHOULD have a breast-fondling station? That’s like off the charts pathetic
Comment by nessly
April 25th, 2009 at 9:19 am
dudes it’s okay, we women can close our eyes and pretend those very large breasts are actually testies!
Comment by two-faced joel
September 2nd, 2009 at 3:53 pm
yuck………