OG Game from Puff Games
In 1st grade, one of my good friends at the time showed me this game on a flash game site named Puffgames, which would lead to one of my most fondest early gaming experiences. My parents had this 2007 PC in the living room, and one day after school on halloween, my friend and I sat next to each other on two stools and played Skull kid for hours. I would say the best part, besides the obviously amazing holiday of halloween and season of fall this day happened to land on, and of course, the beauty of such an ancient desktop computer in the middle of a social space of the house, something that is seldom a thing these days, was the uncontrollable laughter we both shared after every death because we FUCKING SUCKED. We were literally just walking in, fucking up our timing trying to chainsaw this guy shooting at us, instantly dying and then repeating the same thing over and over again. I think it was the third level or something, but yeah it got us fucked up, however, it was funny as hell. It's one of the moments I look at today and think, damn we had it so good. One because we were young as shit and everything was fun and new, but two, because for once in my life, I DIDN'T GET RAGE BAITED BY A GAME. INSTEAD I JUST LAUGHED.
If you try and search up the Puff Games browser today, it will be the first URL you see with a red cartoon face as a placeholder logo, but upon clicking, you'll be met with a skeleton (no pun intended) of a once very active website, with a plethora of broken picture icons, and a subsequent, "you are blocked" error page if you attempt to open any of the listed games. But back in the day, the site was booming as flash was still being used, and skull kid was one of the most frequently played games. And for good reason.
Basically, you were this skeleton guy with a chainsaw that could saw through desks and other office objects, with the objective to kill the office clients who were shooting at you, or in some cases, just standing there. The game was all in 2D, and so the controls were basically a button to walk forward or back, a button to power the chain saw, a button to shoot a pistol, and then a button to duck from incoming fire. I believe there were only like 5ish levels with varying difficulty, but man was it fun, and honestly, pretty difficult. Like, you had to really time your movements on some of the higher levels to make sure you weren't shot. The music was also super chill - I believe it was a combination of reggaeton meets office clerk.
Overall, the game was very replayable, enjoyable, and completely free, and the fact that a free game could cultivate such an incredible childhood gaming memory, means something. I think you can still play it today as well. Just search up skull kid game and it will pop up.
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