Manual Please read before parking

System

Any browser that renders CSS. No plug-in, no install, no account.

Scripting

None. There is no JavaScript here, not even one script tag.

Network

Only enough to load this page. No server calls, no saves, no accounts.

Display

Best at 1024×768 or wider; still readable down to 320 pixels.

In the "Step 1 — choose a car" area on the car park page there are three cars available. Click a card, or Tab to the group and use the arrow keys. The chosen card takes a heavier border and shows a "✔ Selected" chip.

There are only three on the front page because the number of state combinations in pure CSS grows quickly with the number of options. All six original vehicles are catalogued in the garage, with levels, prices and per-minute income.

Changed your mind? The last option in each group is "↺ start over". That is the only cancel button in this game.

Zone B4 has three spaces open, each in a different state:

Each state is marked in words as well as in graphics, so it never depends on colour, and it still reads with the stylesheet turned off.

Park in Bay A and the "Parking result" area below produces a simulated earnings receipt naming the car, the per-minute rate, the duration and the total. Under it is a "Collect earnings" button, which expands a line of confirmation text.

Note the wording: simulated. Rate multiplied by duration is written into the page by hand, and the clock was never running. Collecting changes nothing, because the balance is a fixed number too.

This is not laziness, it is the position of the piece: rather than animate a number upwards to imply it is growing, say plainly in the interface that it is not.

The higher the level, the longer the body, the louder the colours and the higher the rate. That is deliberate in the visuals: judging whether a car was worth anything came down to how conspicuous it was on someone else's page.

• Penguin Runabout — 12 coins/min. Plain, and has never once broken down.
• Neon Hatchback — 28 coins/min. A strip of light around the sills. Unremarkable by day, unmissable at night.
• Blue Diamond Coupé — 96 coins/min. Park it anywhere and that bay is the top row of the leaderboard.

The other three in the garage (the convertible, the van and the concept car) don't appear in the car park and exist only in the index, for the same reason: keeping the number of state combinations down.

Bay C is next to a fire lane. Parking there triggers a warden's ticket: the page issues a violation notice and deducts a simulated 200 coins.

It is the only negative outcome here, and the only one where you set out to earn and came away down. What tended to stick in the memory from games like this was rarely the income; it was the small misfortune. Nothing is actually deducted.

The front page carries this week's friends' income leaderboard, and the guestbook has a fuller version with each friend's message. It is static content and does not respond to how often you park.

Keeping the leaderboard was deliberate. In that period it was more or less the reason games like this existed. Remove it and the parking has no point.