Mario, Zelda, Pokémon: these are all good themes for charity marathons, and have raised countless thousands of dollars for a range of charities. Playing every game in a particular series back-to-back is a big accomplishment, but how would you feel about playing every game available for a single console? If that console's the NES and you're Pat the NES Punk, you'd probably want to do that.
Starting on Saturday, October 16th, the 8-bit loving punk will be playing every NES game back-to-back, taking in over 750 titles in order to raise money for the Child's Play charity. It's all in celebration of the NES's 25th anniversary, a gaming milestone we at Nintendo Life will be celebrating in our own special fashion.
The charity marathon kicks off on Saturday, October 16th at 3pm EST, 12pm PST, and can be seen streamed live on a range of websites including Screw Attack.
Have fun with Donkey Kong Jr. Math, Pat.
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Holy Moly. Good luck to the guy.
He'll have to play crap like Action 52 and Back to the Future eventually. Then again, it is for charity so he's gotta do what he's gotta do.
I worked it out and he has less than 115 seconds per game, so I think he's gonna play each for about a minute or so.
Good luck with that.
Holy cripes! He'd better haul in millions.
I could do that too, well kinda, I aint got all them games but if someone gave em to me I could easily do it. although on 24 hours u got like a minute for each game...
Whoever said he was doing this in 24 hours?
i suppose they need to take into account things like, food, drink and toilet brakes. how many nes consoles will be used, because of the constant loading in and out of each game. and i`m sure somebody needs to keep tally of the time and games played.
oh, and will this count to a guiness book world record at all?
read the poster, 24 hours in the corner.
toilet brakes?
sorry, i know what you meant, but man is that an odd mental image. :3
damn my spelling. breaks not brakes.
@my_point_is And to think I complain about people not reading my posts! Derrrrrr...
I can't wait for him to get to the weird stuff like Tombs & Treasure or Magician.
At least he doesn't have to beat all of them. He'd probably go insane.
@James It says 24 hours in the picture...
@irken004 Yeah, I see that now. Feeling a little stupid!
Super Groovy!
Meh, not an accomplishment. Lemme know when someone attempts to beat 750 NES games in a marathon.
good luck w/ hydlide and takeshi's challenge
@ 20. sykotek
I'm with you there, that's what I thought at first.
My God, he may have to play Infiltrator. (ARGH)^2
will there be multiple nes(es) be used
That's one load of a challenge. Not sure if I'll be tuning in, but sounds like an awesome milestone!
He should do 25 hours it would make more epic"nes".
Well he is doing this for charity...
@TLink9 ...I SEE WHAT YOU DID THERE!
It'd be more impressive if he was actually going to beat them all (not in 24 hours, obviously), but awesome, I guess?
Does he have like, a set window of time to play each game, to ensure he nails each one before the 24 hours is up? Yaknowsay'n? Word.
How many of those 750 nes games are on virtual console?
so...... is he playing Bubble Bath Babes?
Deadly Towers? Bible Adventures (and all the other Wisdom Tree games)? Ooh, how about those über-rare tourney carts? I can't help but assume there'll be some emulation involved here one way or another...
games like Bible Adventures and Action 52 might not count since they're unlicensed and therefore not part of the official NES catalogue
I suggest leaving Spy vs Spy til last, it will almost certainly give him a headache.
Good luck beating Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, all the Ninja Gaiden games, Siver Surfer, Battletoads, and The Karate Kid all in one day.
@JimLad - he'd have a headache already by the time he plays the 750th game don't you think?
@bro2dragons #31:
"so...... is he playing Bubble Bath Babes? "
I was thinking the same thing. I actually own a repro Pamesian multicart from Retrozone. No mention anywhere of unlicensed games. Tengen Tetris is my all-time favorite unlicensed cart.
He's gotta be using Game Genie or something.
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