Games that use smell

[Nicola]

2 questions about smells in games

1-Before thinking that I became completely crazy, please let me know if you remember about any game that uses smell.
I mean, games touches almost every sense: you see it, you touch (rumble, force feedback...), you hear it...
Sight, hearing, taste...

Do you know about any game that uses the smell sense? Maybe a strange japanese arcade game, or a console game with some sort of Odorama?

I'm not yet asking about the taste sense. And the smell that cartridges and CD-DVDs have...

2-btw, I know that in the automobile industry, the smell inside a car is a part of the product. It's an important and studied quality.
Do you know if it's the same with consoles (and games)?


Weird questions, I admit it.

[Imstarryeyed]

Humm that is a very interesting question. I cannot think of too many games that had any sort of smell feature, but I do remember that the Commodore 64 game "Leather Goddesses of Phobos" used a scratch and sniff card to give you an idea of what the smells were like in the game.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:LGOP_box_art.jpg

I always thought Infocom made such innovative games with The Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy being my most favorite one!

[jajaja]

Larry 7 also uses a sniff card :) When you enter different places an icon with a number will flash down right corner or something and a cool voice saying "Cybersniff 2000" LOL indicating that you shall smell the particular number on the sniff card. Neat feature.

[GarrettCRW]

No one has mentioned Earthbound????

[Kroogah]

No one has mentioned Earthbound????

EarthBound had the scratch & sniff cards, but they weren't integrated into the game in any way.

But if you're counting those, too, then there were also the promotional scratch & sniff stickers for the GBA Classic NES series.
Super Mario Bros. - Pizza
Donkey Kong - Bananas
Ice Climber - Wintergreen/Mint
Excitebike - Rubber tires
Zelda - Grass

[Fantastic_Duck]

Bowelmovent Boy 3 - Return of the Transverse Colon

Now that game was a hugely smelly game

[WiseSalesman]

No one has mentioned Earthbound????

...and they were about the most disgusting thing I have EVER smelled. They managed to give me a bad impression of the game before I even played it. Seriously, the first one I tried nearly had me hurling.

[Poofta!]

2 questions about smells in games

1-Before thinking that I became completely crazy, please let me know if you remember about any game that uses smell.
I mean, games touches almost every sense: you see it, you touch (rumble, force feedback...), you hear it...
Sight, hearing, taste...

Do you know about any game that uses the smell sense? Maybe a strange japanese arcade game, or a console game with some sort of Odorama?

I'm not yet asking about the taste sense. And the smell that cartridges and CD-DVDs have...

2-btw, I know that in the automobile industry, the smell inside a car is a part of the product. It's an important and studied quality.
Do you know if it's the same with consoles (and games)?


Weird questions, I admit it.



what games you know w/ tasting!!!

also, isnt new car smell like dangerous for you, in the amounts that are in the car.

[tom]

Down in the Dumps

[insinion]

...and they were about the most disgusting thing I have EVER smelled. They managed to give me a bad impression of the game before I even played it. Seriously, the first one I tried nearly had me hurling.

omg thanks to you my fruitjuice is now all spit over my lcd screen :p

[suckerpunch5]

Only one time in my life have I experienced a smell being generated to enhance some sort of multimedia presentation. It was at disney world in florida, and in your seat's headrest they put some sort of device that would puff smelly air into your face. It was in the Stitch's Escape show (or whatever the heck it was.) There was a part of the show where the lights are off, and everyone is trying to catch Stitch, and your chair makes it seem like Stitch is right beside you, and lets a real loud belch. Which you can then smell coming from your chair. It smelled really bad, like chili combined with Fritos. So yeah, that is the only thing I've ever seen that came close to what you are asking about.

[Porksta]

There was a device made in the 90's I believe to have smell in games. It is on a list of the top 10 tech failures, along with Microsoft Bob, WebTV, and Playstation 3.

[calthaer]

What about Daikatana. That game smelled pretty bad. Oh wait...but it didn't use smell...

[Nicola]

Another question:
do you think that each system has his smells?

[Ed Oscuro]

Another question:
do you think that each system has his smells?
A good question. My Casio calculator definitely smells different from my TI one, and stuff from Japan always has that "Japanese" smell about it.

No, I'm serious.

uh, I think.

[Cryomancer]

Someday we weill have true VR with taste and smell.

And there will be SHITEATER viruses for it. Yay for technology!

[Haoie]

Well, it's not quite answering your question, but smell did play a big part in the Prehistoric Chapter in Live-A-Live [SFC].

Boy, actual smell sure is neglected. It's not the fault of gaming, it's just TV and the idea of smell-o-vision never did get far.

[Ed Oscuro]

It's not the fault of gaming, it's just TV and the idea of smell-o-vision never did get far.
Well, that Looney Tunes parody really killed "Smellevision" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Old_Grey_Hare) dead, I think :D

[Kamisama]

No one mentioned Gran Turismo 2? (I think it was 2)
The Discs were smelling like Tires or so. I remember something like that

[Nicola]

There was a device made in the 90's I believe to have smell in games. It is on a list of the top 10 tech failures, along with Microsoft Bob, WebTV, and Playstation 3.

More infos?

btw I've found this:

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/techinnovations/2005-04-06-sony-patent_x.htm

Maybe it has been already discussed 2 years ago.

[Nicola]

Bump for more infos about the "device made in the 90's I believe to have smell in games"

[rbudrick]

Someday we weill have true VR with taste and smell.

And there will be SHITEATER viruses for it. Yay for technology!

ROFL!! I laughed my ass off, dude. Funny, and totally possible.

Wouldn't that suck if your PC or console just kept spewing out eau de SHIT and you had to wait for a patch to come out before you could play!?


and they were about the most disgusting thing I have EVER smelled. They managed to give me a bad impression of the game before I even played it. Seriously, the first one I tried nearly had me hurling.

Really? Which one? I remember pickles and pizza and I thought they smelled really good.

-Rob

[TheRedEye]

The November 1999 issue of Wired has a six-page article on DigiScent, which is archived online:

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/7.11/digiscent.html

I can't find any of the original press releases, but I found a small news piece in my company's archives to show that they intended DigiScent to be used in game development:

http://www.gamasutra.com/newswire/bit_blasts/20000114/index1.htm