5 Second Stopwatch Game: Trend or Travesty?

Written by Lan Party Socialite

Tuesday, 08 July 2008 16:04

If you ever need a way to burn five second intervals of your life, pick up this hot new game by Bandai that's sweeping Japan. The object is to hit a button on the stopwatch-like device at exactly 5.00 seconds. That's it. You hit a button on the 5th second. Leave it up to the same country that's known for collecting dirty underwear and tentacle-rape hentai to market a game that high school gym coaches have secretly been playing for years.

5 second game rules!

Ingenious. It's an epic game that pits man against time...or at least his measure of it. You can almost play this game 5 times a minute. You could have one in each hand going simultaneously so you can double your pleasure. It's something anyone can pick up and enjoy whether old, n00bish, s0rethumbed, mentally challenged, or even American.

Just one question though - why don't people just use regular stopwatches to play this game? If you're wrestling with this question like I am, you can preview it in flash form here.