As per the tradition of Extra Life, it all comes down to a 24 hour gaming marathon. It has been that way since year Zero. It will remain that way always. And tomorrow, it's our turn.
At 8 AM tomorrow morning (Eastern time) we will be playing until 8 AM Friday in our bid to help the sick kids out there who need it most. It has been my personal honor to be a part of this since it began way back in October of 2008 on a now defunct site called Sarcastic Gamer and I can only hope to keep going for a long time still. I still remember the podcast that sparked it, and how hard it was to listen to Doc break down completely during it. He was a friend of a family who just had some of the hardest news a parent ever has to hear, as their daughter lost her fight with cancer. He took it personally too. But that pain inspired a plan. And to say thank you to the hospital who helped her fight, he came to his website and asked us all to do this... to use the hobby to raise money for that hospital.
To this day, I do not believe he thought it would go for more then that year.... but as a community, we wanted to do it again. So 2009 happened. And then Doc left the site, taking Extra Life with him to his new employer's: the Children's Miracle Network in 2010, making the event part of their operations. The good news is that ever since, we now can help our local hospitals instead of just a single one, expanding our ability to help these kids out.
Which brings us to today... or rather tomorrow. At this point, Extra Life Game Day is no longer, but rather Game Week, where players pick a day during that week and run their 24 hour marathon then. And tomorrow is mine.
The current plan will be to have 3 "chains" of gaming broken up into 4 hour blocks in the following order:
- Phantasy Star Online Blue Burst/Phantasy Star Online Episode 3
- Astra Hunter Zosma/Cthulhu Saves the World
- The Talos Principle/Prey (2006)
And on that note, how do we do this? Well, I will be streaming on my twitch page (link below) the entire time, and I will be sharing a link to my Extra Life team page where anyone who wants to help me help these kids can do so (link also below). Anything you can do is MORE then appreciated, but don't worry too much if you can't. Ill be glad to see you anyway. So come on in and say hello!
Alright, I'm afraid my time right now is short as I get ready for tomorrow, so I will let you all go. Thank you for reading, and see you then.
- Megabyte