By now, many on the Internet have heard the story of Nasubi (“eggplant” in Japanese), the Japanese comedian and unwitting game show participant on Denpa Shonen that endured nearly a year of total isolation and nudity during his time on the show. 
Forced to fulfill the mandated goal of winning 1,000,000 Yen through the constant entering of various contests, Nasubi was broadcast on television with little more than an eggplant graphic carefully following his genitals on-screen most of the time. (It should—or maybe shouldn’t—be noted that during the course of the show, however, he did win a contest for women’s underwear which he unsuccessfully tried on.)
Really, though, that’s not the story here. The story is that they actually turned the slowly degenerating mental faculties of this poor guy into a game—and a simulation, no less. Given the high ratings for the show, the bright minds at Hudson (a major Japanese game developer and publisher) decided to bring the experience of slow-simmered insanity to gamers’ homes in 
“Nasubi no Heya” (aka Denpa Shounen-teki Kenshou Seikatsu: Nasubi no Heya, a mouthful to be sure) for the Sega Dreamcast.
Let’s just get this straight; this was a game that mimicked the activities of Nasubi’s day. This generally consisted of a few things (if the show was any indication):
- Entering dozens of contests
- Talking to yourself
- Eating (provided food was available)
- Sleeping
- Finding a suitable place place to defecate
- Writing
- Prancing around in women’s underwear once in a while
- Lots of waiting
Stranger still, the game had an ‘on-line mode’ where if you won items in the game during a specified time and punched in the code number on the Nasubi no Heya website, you too earned the chance win prizes. That is, of course, if you hadn’t offed yourself by then from the sheer banality of it.
