Charity

Razoo Article on the 2011 CD-i Charity Marathon

May 1st, 2012 |

Hello all. I have good news and bad news to share. The bad news is that we're going to skip the episode of "Echo Screen Live" scheduled for this Wednesday, instead opting for episodes on the 3rd and 5th Wednesdays of May. This allows us to still have a Pre-E3 show on May 30th, while spacing episodes out, since I'll be at E3 the first week of June.

Now good news! The fine folks at Razoo wrote up an article on our CD-i charity marathon from last December. They were very helpful in helping us gather funds for the American Cancer society in an easy manner. In addition, I keep getting requests to upload the marathon so people can watch it over and over again (for some strange reason...). I have about 40 hours saved, and I expect to start uploading them before too long - look for updates here, on Twitter, and Facebook!

The Razoo article can be read here: http://news.razoo.com/2012/03/featured-fundraisers-60-hours-of-gaming-to-help-fight-cancer/

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Clan of the Gray Wolf Charity Drives

February 14th, 2012 |

Roo

Late 2011: CD-i Marathon for the American Cancer Society

Early 2011: Legend of Zelda Marathons - 1st Quest for Child's Play, 2nd Quest for Americares (with Pat the NES Punk)

2010: 2nd 1,000-Song Rock Band Marathon for Child's Play

2009: 1st 1,000-Song Rock Band Marathon for Child's Play

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3rd Annual CotGW Charity Gaming Marathon - "3 Days of CD-i"

December 9th, 2011 |

Roo

Online fundraising for 3rd Annual CotGW Gaming Marathon

Our 3rd major video game marathon has ended a success! And we have so many people to thank for it:

- Everyone who donated, no matter the size of the donation - without you, all this would have been just three crazy guys playing 20-year-old video games over the course of a weekend.

- Our sponsors, with a very special thank you to Andrew from videogameauctions.com, who not only generously matched large donations throughout the marathon, but also spurred the chat room with his presense.

- Our chat moderators and friends of the site, who kept things lively but controlled throughout the marathon. They represent sites including RetrowareTV, That Guy With the Glasses, Blistered Thumbs, the Escapist, and many more.

- Dane Byers, who provided some of the equipment we used to record the stream, making it as professional as possible.

- Ustream, for streaming us on their Gaming Section page throughout the marathon.

- The American Cancer Society, for the great work they do in not only cancer research and prevention, but helping those afflicted with it to live as normal lives as possible.

We're very excited that we reached our goal, but we're not quite done yet. Some people have still expressed an interest in donating to the cause despite the marathon's end. Therefore, we've extended the donation period through Christmas Day, December 25th. So if you find that you have a few dollars left over after holiday shopping, feel free to extend the total raised for the American Cancer Society. So again, for those who have donated and those who will - thank you so much. Until next marathon...

Again, we give a huge thanks to the 2011 CD-i Marathon's sponsors:

Legend of Zelda Second Quest Charity Announcement

March 31st, 2011 |

Roo

Sunday, April 3rd at 3PM EDT (12PM PDT), Pat and Roo will play The Legend of Zelda: The Second Quest in order to raise money for Americares.org in support of Japanese tsunami relief.

UPDATE: Thank you all for making the mini-marathon a success! We surpassed our initial goal of $1000, and if you missed it, we should have some videos up fairly soon. Also, if you would still like to donate to the cause, I urge you to do so directly at the Americares website.

There are prizes for the top 5 donators! The person who donates the most will get first pick of the amazing prizes below, 2nd highest donator will get 2nd pick, and so on:

- A working, handcrafted ceramic replica ocarina from LoZ:Ocarina of Time & songbook from Songbird Ocarinas

- 5 mystery NES titles, handpicked by Pat the NES Punk himself

- A copy of The Legend of Zelda & Zelda II: The Adventure of Link for the NES

- A copy of The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass for the Nintendo DS

- A Legend of Zelda laptop skin

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Tags: Charity, Pat the NES Punk, Zelda Charity Events