| Five Minutes to Kill (Yourself) | |
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Title screen for the first game of the series |
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| Developer(s) | Ham in the Fridge |
| Publisher(s) | Adult Swim |
| Platform(s) | Adobe Flash |
| Media/distribution | Browser game |
Five Minutes to Kill (Yourself) is a popular online video game series on Adult Swim Games, which is on Adult Swim's website, AdultSwim.com. Each game is produced by Ham in the Fridge, and features music and sound design composed by Mark Greenberg of the Mayfair Workshop. Each game is a timed game, where the goal is to commit suicide within five minutes to avoid "unpleasant events", such as office meetings, family reunions, and weddings.
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| Five Minutes to Kill (Yourself) | |
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| Release date(s) | March 2007 |
| Mode(s) | Single player |
Five Minutes to Kill (Yourself) is the first game in the series, which came out in March 2007. The premise of the game is to avoid an office meeting by committing suicide within the five minutes before said meeting, by hurting yourself with common office supplies, such as stapling yourself with a stapler, putting metal in a microwave, eating urinal cakes, stabbing yourself with scissors, etc. Each method of hurting yourself doesn't completely kill you but rather kills a certain percent of you; many different methods of hurting yourself need to be done to win the game. This is the only game that uses keyboard controls, and is the most popular in the series, and the third most played game on Adultswim.com.
| Family Reunion | |
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| Release date(s) | September 2008 |
| Mode(s) | Single player |
Five Minutes to Kill (Yourself) 2 or Five Minutes to Kill (Yourself) 2: Family Reunion is the second game in the series, which came out in September 2008. This game has the same concept as the first game, although the object of the game is to avoid a family reunion, rather than an office meeting. In this game instead of using office supplies to commit suicide, you use outdoor-themed methods such as rolling in garbage, swimming in hot boiling oil, eating charcoal, getting attacked by birds, etc. This is the first game to be controlled by mouse rather than a keyboard. One major glitch is the "?" pause button, which allows players to stop the clock while going through their method of suicide, which saves time and results in a better score.
| Wedding Day | |
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| Release date(s) | November 2009 |
| Mode(s) | Single / Multiplayer |
Five Minutes to Kill (Yourself): Wedding Day is the third game in the series, which came out in November 2009. In this game you commit suicide to avoid getting married, using methods such as sticking a lit candle in your eye, eating used chewing gum, hitting your head on a mirror, eating tampons, etc. This game has multiple improvements over the first two. In this game you can use a custom name to play with and you can chose between eight different hair colors, skin tones and outfit colors, whereas in the first game you could only choose your outfit. This is also the first game you can play as a female. It is also the first (and currently only) multiplayer game in the series, allowing users to play with their friends, or random people on the internet.
| RELOADED | |
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| Release date(s) | July 2010 |
| Mode(s) | Single player |
Five Minutes to Kill (Yourself): RELOADED came out in July 2010. This game is basically a remake of the first game, which features new rooms and different methods of killing yourself, such as sticking a fire iron in your forehead, slamming your head on a car door, eating cigarettes, lying on a solar panel, etc. Unlike the third game, this game is not multiplayer, and the ability to customize your name, skin tone and hair is no longer available, but the ability to play as a female still is. This is the first to feature printable achievements.
| Airport Edition | |
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| Release date(s) | June 2, 2011 |
| Mode(s) | Single player |
Five Minutes to Kill (Yourself): Airport Edition is the fifth game, released June 2, 2011, and is based on Stan trying to avoid getting on a plane with lots of fat, weird, smelly, freaky and stupid people. In this game you try to kill yourself with items such as: car doors, trains, security guards, conveyor belts, etc.
In November 2009 the original game became available for iPhone.[1] In April 2010 a T-shirt featuring Stan cutting his arm with a paper cutter became available on the Adult Swim shop; this was the second time that a T-shirt [2] has been made for Adultswim.com games.