Chair Racing Sets Gaming World Alight

Posted by simoniker on Saturday June 21, 2003 @08:59AM from the olympic-sport-of-the-future dept.

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.

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Racing Recliners for Real - "The Leisure Luge" by markjugg · 2003-06-21 09:22 · Score: 3, Informative

This is hardly news compared to the 1999 real world event called The Leisure Luge, a race of skateboard-propelled arm chairs. Although the official coverage at Charged.com is gone, the raw story and photos are still available.
This is actually a lot more fun than racing plain old office chairs.