Chair

File	chair.hqx
Size	13.1 KB
Category	Game

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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.GameplayYou 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 distributionThe 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 requirementsThe 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 preservedChair 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.