Five Minutes to Kill (Yourself)
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Five Minutes to Kill 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.
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.
, 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.
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.
doors, trains, security guards, conveyor belt
s, etc.
. 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 has been made for Adultswim.com games.
Adult Swim
Adult Swim is an adult-oriented Cable network that shares channel space with Cartoon Network from 9:00 pm until 6:00 am ET/PT in the United States, and broadcasts in countries such as Australia and New Zealand...
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
Suicide
Suicide is the act of intentionally causing one's own death. Suicide is often committed out of despair or attributed to some underlying mental disorder, such as depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, alcoholism, or drug abuse...
within five minutes to avoid "unpleasant events", such as office meetings, family reunions, and weddings.
Original game
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 meetingMeeting
In a meeting, two or more people come together to discuss one or more topics, often in a formal setting.- Definitions :An act or process of coming together as an assembly for a common purpose....
by committing suicide within the five minutes before said meeting, by hurting yourself with common office supplies, such as stapling yourself with a stapler
Stapler
A stapler is a mechanical device that joins sheets of paper or similar material by driving a thin metal staple through the sheets and folding the ends. Staplers are widely used in government, business, offices, and schools....
, putting metal in a microwave
Microwave
Microwaves, a subset of radio waves, have wavelengths ranging from as long as one meter to as short as one millimeter, or equivalently, with frequencies between 300 MHz and 300 GHz. This broad definition includes both UHF and EHF , and various sources use different boundaries...
, eating urinal cakes, stabbing yourself with scissors
Scissors
Scissors are hand-operated cutting instruments. They consist of a pair of metal blades pivoted so that the sharpened edges slide against each other when the handles opposite to the pivot are closed. Scissors are used for cutting various thin materials, such as paper, cardboard, metal foil, thin...
, 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
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
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 gumChewing gum
Chewing gum is a type of gum traditionally made of chicle, a natural latex product, or synthetic rubber known as polyisobutylene. For economical and quality reasons, many modern chewing gums use rubber instead of chicle...
, 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
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 ironFire iron
A fire iron is any metal instrument for tending to a fire.-Types of fire irons:There are three types of tools commonly used to tend a small fire, such as an indoor fireplace fire, or yule log: the spade, the tongs and the poker itself...
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
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: carČar
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doors, trains, security guards, conveyor belt
Conveyor belt
A conveyor belt consists of two or more pulleys, with a continuous loop of material - the conveyor belt - that rotates about them. One or both of the pulleys are powered, moving the belt and the material on the belt forward. The powered pulley is called the drive pulley while the unpowered pulley...
s, etc.
Merchandise
In November 2009 the original game became available for iPhoneIPhone
The iPhone is a line of Internet and multimedia-enabled smartphones marketed by Apple Inc. The first iPhone was unveiled by Steve Jobs, then CEO of Apple, on January 9, 2007, and released on June 29, 2007...
. In April 2010 a T-shirt
T-shirt
A T-shirt is a style of shirt. A T-shirt is buttonless and collarless, with short sleeves and frequently a round neck line....
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 has been made for Adultswim.com games.