What can I say?! I really got into everything that these guys were doing last year in support of Child’s Play, so it pleases me to no end to see that not only are they doing it all over again this year, but there’s a good chance that this year’s marathon will crack $250,000 in total donations over the life of the project.
That’s a quarter of a million dollars for charity, for a bunch of guys sitting around playing Super Mario Bros!
In a word – incredible.
So as the numbers go thus far, the gang is currently floating just over $42k at about 28 hours in (you can see some cool graphs of their progress compared to other years at mmstats.net). The final total last year was $82k after 109 hours (4.5 days!) of gaming, with a 3-year running total of $122,931 raised for Child’s Play.
That said, I’m calling it now … Mario Marathon 4 is going to bring in a whopping $127,000 this year.
Let’s make it happen, people!