He made the 'drinky drinky' sign

Canadian video game developers hope their software that simulates drunk driving will make teenagers think twice about driving after a night of heavy drinking.

The game 'Booze Cruise' was developed by Jim Parker, a digital-media professor and a number of his students at the University of Calgary.

"The basic story is that this person is absolutely pissed and woke up in the trunk of their car and now is going to drive home," Parker said.

The player, with vision narrowed and blurred and reaction times slowed to mimic the reality of driving drunk, has 90 seconds to get home while navigating past obstacles that include pedestrians, other cars and a police checkpoint.

Apart from the obvious knee-jerk reaction of 'do we want to train train children how to drive drunk?' my personal experience of playing GT3 outside a few strong martinis is how surprisingly smooth my driving could be. Worrying.

While many teens are familiar with driving video games, Parker said the hope is that this one will persuade them that alcohol will affect their skills.

Those old enough to remember 'Big' Bill Werbeniuk may have a different perception of the effect of alcohol on a Canadians motor skills. Bill said he suffered with a benign essential tremor, bad luck for a snooker player, so he medicated his condition with copious amounts of alcohol before and during matches. He said that he generally drank around six pints of lager before a match and then one pint for each frame. If memory serves he even tried to offset the cost against tax as an essential tool of his trade.

My advice is get yourself a skinfull and a taxi home.