Irritating Stick
Encyclopedia
Irritating Stick, also known as Dengeki Iraira Bou (Irritating Electric Stick in Japanese
), is a PlayStation video game published by Jaleco Entertainment, based on the Japan
ese game show
, which in turn was based on a carnival game
, where the player tries to maneuver a Metal
rod through a metal maze without touching the sides or else they would get shocked. The player would also experience hearing a loud announcer screaming to confuse them while trying to escape the maze. In the American Version of the game, the voices (except for when the maze is finished) were removed for unknown reasons. Irritating Stick was originally released in Japan on March 19, 1998 and in North America on January 31, 1999. There is also a demo of the Japanese version released in North America in 1998 on the "Playstation Underground Jampack" in the "imports" section of the vault where it was spelled: "Ira-Ira Bo". The player could only play up to level three, and some of the features were removed such as "multiplayer", "TV studio", "bonus", and "options". Besides some of the removed content everything else such as the voice acting, narration, and intro movie were still there. Japanese Playstation games would not work on the American PlayStation console, so since this was a direct transfer of the game from the original disk, when a level is beaten or the player gets a "game over," the PlayStation console must be restarted. Loading time has also increased.
This game was voted the worst game name of all time by gamerevolution.com.
"Irritating" in this sense actually means "vibrating", what the stick does when it gets too close to the wall.
Japanese language
is a language spoken by over 130 million people in Japan and in Japanese emigrant communities. It is a member of the Japonic language family, which has a number of proposed relationships with other languages, none of which has gained wide acceptance among historical linguists .Japanese is an...
), is a PlayStation video game published by Jaleco Entertainment, based on the Japan
Japan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
ese game show
Game show
A game show is a type of radio or television program in which members of the public, television personalities or celebrities, sometimes as part of a team, play a game which involves answering questions or solving puzzles usually for money and/or prizes...
, which in turn was based on a carnival game
Carnival game
A carnival game is a game of chance or skill that can be seen at a traveling carnival, charity fund raiser, amusement park, or on a state and county fair midway....
, where the player tries to maneuver a Metal
Metal
A metal , is an element, compound, or alloy that is a good conductor of both electricity and heat. Metals are usually malleable and shiny, that is they reflect most of incident light...
rod through a metal maze without touching the sides or else they would get shocked. The player would also experience hearing a loud announcer screaming to confuse them while trying to escape the maze. In the American Version of the game, the voices (except for when the maze is finished) were removed for unknown reasons. Irritating Stick was originally released in Japan on March 19, 1998 and in North America on January 31, 1999. There is also a demo of the Japanese version released in North America in 1998 on the "Playstation Underground Jampack" in the "imports" section of the vault where it was spelled: "Ira-Ira Bo". The player could only play up to level three, and some of the features were removed such as "multiplayer", "TV studio", "bonus", and "options". Besides some of the removed content everything else such as the voice acting, narration, and intro movie were still there. Japanese Playstation games would not work on the American PlayStation console, so since this was a direct transfer of the game from the original disk, when a level is beaten or the player gets a "game over," the PlayStation console must be restarted. Loading time has also increased.
This game was voted the worst game name of all time by gamerevolution.com.
"Irritating" in this sense actually means "vibrating", what the stick does when it gets too close to the wall.