From RPM@UH.EDU Tue Dec 12 14:34:54 1995

Anyone out there familiar with those weird and sometimes cruel
Japanese game shows?  Y

If you're interested in the Brazilian variation of that, I could give
you a nice account on those :) It seems like our main brain-washing network
bought the licence from the Japanese TV, You can even see the
original Japanese ones sometimes when they need more gap-filling
stuff.
 

I'm talking about the variety where you have to do stuff like drink beer
and then sit in shorts in the cold outdoors (the bladder, it shrinks,
and so....) or get spun around until you're stuidly dizzy and then
run a race against other stupidly dizzy people?  I've only got
vague details and I'm using it in my latest Ranma1/2 fanfic.

Hmm... Brazilian variations:

Run across a _quite_ instable bridge (only the floor, no other protection) 
carring a basketball and have two football ball cannons targeting and firing 
at you  [btw they have a pretty good targeting practice to hit your head or 
other sensitive areas, to archive maximum toss-them-out-of-the-bridge effect
and those balls hit HARD!] If you loose the basketball, you have to stop,
wait someone to toss another at you (cannons won't shoot at you while you're
stopped, but will resume as soon as you touch the basketball).
The bridge is 5 meters high above a swimming pool.

[nice for Ranma 1/2]: Run thru a series of obstacles in less than 40 seconds.
The obstacles are giant balls thrown at your head, spinning ground, ropes
(for Tarzan-like swinging), people disguised(?) as monsters trying to push
you out of course, etc.

Try to keep your balance in a 30 cm radius circle over a pool, while being
bashed with a giant stick (with resilient balls on the extremities to avoid
actual damage) and bash the oponent until he gets trown on the water.

Get spun around until you are stuidy dizzy and then try to bash a ceramic
target with a baseball stick.

Climb up a 15 degree 25 meters slope, wearing a watermellon disguise (Kuno
would like this one!) and try to avoid 2 m diameter balls that come 
rolling down the slope. Of course the disguise won't allow you to move your
legs, so you will have to move in short jumps. It will also tie your
arms so that you can not use them. If you loose your balance, you will
roll all the way back (and down) like one of the balls due to the disguise.

If you need some more or if you need me to describe one of them a little
better, just reply me directly. 

- Henrique

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  Henrique Holschuh <henriqmh@dca.fee.Unicamp.br>