News Room Contributor Posts: 8060 Joined: 12 Nov 2002 | Save Money and Kill Monsters With BankQuest Piggy Bank
The nation that has given the world everything from the code of Bushido to vending machines that dole out panties has done it once again, this time with a new piggy bank that lets you save the world while you save your money.
BankQuest, from Takara Tomy, is a tower-shaped coin bank with a built-in action-RPG that's played through a small LCD window mounted in the side of the bank. Buttons underneath the screen let players control the game's hero as he fights his way through a monster-infested tower. More than just hack-and-slash action, though, the game is also an incentive to save: Equipment for the in-game character, necessary to defeat the tower's denizens, can only be purchased by putting real money into the bank.
The game world of Gorudopia, the tower-within-a-tower, features 100 floors crawling with more than 180 different monsters; to help battle them, bank owners will have access to more than 160 different items, with a total value of roughly $100. Without those items, and the money necessary to buy them, Wired's Game|Life blog says you'll never beat them all.
The banks are designed to take Japanese coins of up to 500 yen (a little under five bucks) and since as far as I can tell it's only going to be released in Japan, a version for U.S. currency (and the English language) seems unlikely. Still, if this sort of thing is your bag, specialty importers will likely have it available for sale in North America soon after its August 7 release. To get a look at BankQuest in action, check out the TakaraTomy website; it's entirely in Japanese but not terribly difficult to figure out, and you can even drop in some virtual coins to see how it works. BankQuest is expected to retail for about $40.
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Beat Writer Posts: 183 Joined: 8 Jun 2008 | I wish I lived in Japan...everything seems so much more like the future (and awesome too). |
Copy Clerk Posts: 68 Joined: 20 Jun 2008 | Oh my god, thats awesome! does it reset when you open the bank? cuz if it diddnt then you could just take your yen out and then put it in again.. (the first thing i do is think of a way to cheat ><) |
Gone Gonzo Posts: 2487 Joined: 29 Nov 2007 | If they hooked this up to a console, I'd have hundreds of dollars saved in months. |
Save Money and Kill Monsters With BankQuest Piggy Bank
The nation that has given the world everything from the code of Bushido to vending machines that dole out panties has done it once again, this time with a new piggy bank that lets you save the world while you save your money.
BankQuest, from Takara Tomy, is a tower-shaped coin bank with a built-in action-RPG that's played through a small LCD window mounted in the side of the bank. Buttons underneath the screen let players control the game's hero as he fights his way through a monster-infested tower. More than just hack-and-slash action, though, the game is also an incentive to save: Equipment for the in-game character, necessary to defeat the tower's denizens, can only be purchased by putting real money into the bank.
The game world of Gorudopia, the tower-within-a-tower, features 100 floors crawling with more than 180 different monsters; to help battle them, bank owners will have access to more than 160 different items, with a total value of roughly $100. Without those items, and the money necessary to buy them, Wired's Game|Life blog says you'll never beat them all.
The banks are designed to take Japanese coins of up to 500 yen (a little under five bucks) and since as far as I can tell it's only going to be released in Japan, a version for U.S. currency (and the English language) seems unlikely. Still, if this sort of thing is your bag, specialty importers will likely have it available for sale in North America soon after its August 7 release. To get a look at BankQuest in action, check out the TakaraTomy website; it's entirely in Japanese but not terribly difficult to figure out, and you can even drop in some virtual coins to see how it works. BankQuest is expected to retail for about $40.
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