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Weekend mindgame: Karoshi Suicide Salaryman

3:01 PM Sat, Oct 18, 2008 |
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I have six half-written blog posts and 87 Firefox tabs open, but I have to, must, gotta get summer clothes washed and put away today to make room for the winter ones still upstairs in storage boxes. Nevertheless, I've been procrastinating, playing this. Here, you play it while I pack cottons and unpack woolens. Please.


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I haven't posted a link to a good game here in a while. I hadn't found anything fun recently. I don't want to build worlds or race around a time management game or a track. But Karoshi Suicide Salaryman does the trick.

It's free and online -- nothing to download. From Jay of Games,


Karoshi is a platform/puzzle game where your goal is the exact opposite of most such entertainments: you have to die.

Throw yourself onto spikes, zap yourself with electricity, smash yourself with a falling safe....Control your blocky businessman with the [arrow] keys. If you find a gun, fire it with the [spacebar]. I know, it sounds like finding a gun should make a game about suicide reeeeally simple; but due to a lack of courage and elbows, your man can only shoot away from himself. You have to find other uses for the gun, if you want to work it into your demise.

Every time you figure out how to do yourself in, you vanish in a big red splotch reminiscent of old comic books' angular "Pow! Splat!" balloons.

It might have been gruesome, but your character is, after all, immortal.

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