Chair Racing Sets Gaming World Alight

Thanks to an anonymous reader for pointing out a downloadable demo of Japanese PC videogame Chair Chaser is available over at Gamershell. A little research uncovers that this unique racing game, subtitled 'Let's Get The President's Seat!!' and developed by (the student part of?) Konami Osaka, has you racing round a skyscraper astride office chairs. It was part of the 2002-2003 CESA Amateur Awards, entering a competition organized by the Japanese game trade organization body (who have a demo mirror on their site.) Nice to see a game adding to the 'office action' genre popularized by Ambrosia's Harry The Handsome Executive.

Re:Why?

[GoRK]

Well, you have to concede a few things:

1) This was not main page news unless you have flat mode turned on.

2) Every office I have worked in has had its share of chair rolling. Last Friday, it was a fairly slow afternoon, and one of the ladies rolled around the whole office to say hi to everybody in her chair. In a tech support room, some people actually raced chairs around the island.

3) I actually downloaded the game and while it is a bit prone to crashing and whatnot it is actually pretty fun and amusing

Racing Recliners for Real - "The Leisure Luge"

[markjugg]

This is hardly news compared to the 1999 real world event called The Leisure Luge [summersault.com], a race of skateboard-propelled arm chairs. Although the official coverage at Charged.com is gone, the raw story [summersault.com] and photos [summersault.com] are still available.

This is actually a lot more fun than racing plain old office chairs.

hmmm and stuff

[XO]

Oddly enough, just YESTERDAY, one of my employees and I were considering building a race track for office chairs, in the non-level portion of our basement, to get some extra momentum going.

This really cracked me up to see this.

Is this on the front page? I have my account set to show -all- articles, but if this made front page, that's kinda sad.

Great Excuse to Give the Wife:

[Farscry]

"But Honey, this is actually a training program for some office activities!"

hmm

[sm4kxd]

good for a laugh, but god forbid the way you control the chair is horrible.

That's ridiculous...

[Geckoman]

...everyone knows the best way to race office chairs is backwards! You'll go so much faster it's unbelievable, and not being able to see where you're going adds plenty of extra excitement!

I guess there's no accounting for taste, huh?