Chair
| Filename | chair.hqx |
|---|---|
| Size | 13.1 KB (13434 bytes) |
| Downloads | 13 |
Chair is a tiny, deliberately silly HyperCard joke distributed to Info-Mac in the mid-1990s by R. Griffin. The entire premise is right there in the README: you are a little guy, and you have to move around and sit in the chair. That is the whole game, and it exists for the quick laugh it produces.
Gameplay
You guide a small character across a single HyperCard scene with the goal of reaching and sitting in a chair. There is no scoring, no inventory, and no failure state described in the bundled notes -- it is a one-gag interactive cartoon rather than a sustained game.
Author and distribution
The Info-Mac upload lists the author as rgriffin@mail.erols.com and distributes the file as chair.hqx, a BinHex 4.0-encoded HyperCard stack in the info-mac/game tree.
System requirements
The bundled notes state that HyperCard 2.x is required. As a HyperCard stack, it runs on essentially any Mac of the System 7 era that has a working HyperCard or HyperCard Player installation.
Why it is preserved
Chair is representative of a whole class of throwaway HyperCard novelties that circulated through Info-Mac: short, single-joke stacks that are interesting today as cultural artifacts of how casually people shared interactive doodles in the HyperCard era.
This file is part of the MacTrove archive. See the Thank You page for the upstream mirrors we rely on. It is BinHex encoded — use The Unarchiver to decode it.
