Mario Marathon squashing Goombas for charity once again

by Griffin McElroy on Jun 26th 2010 9:00AM

For the third year in a row, a small group of brave, platforming-adept gamers have holed themselves up in a room, where they'll play a vast cornucopia of Mario titles until their viewers allow them to stop. That sounds more sadistic than it actually is -- the Mario Marathon is actually a charity drive, where the players take on more difficult in-game tasks as donations for Child's Play continue to pile in.

They're currently standing at a little over $20,000, but they'll need a lot more fungible encouragement if they're going to be made to tackle some of their loftier goals. Why not drop by and show your support?

[Thanks to everyone who sent this in!]

Source: Mario Marathon

Tags: charity, childs-play, mario, mario-marathon, nintendo, wii

Reader Comments (5)

Hey guys thanks for posting this. Its amazing that were over $20,000 in less than 24 hours. Hope to see some of you in the chat!

There was a group of guys who did this a while ago but with all of the 3D Zelda games, it's a fun way to raise a little money for charity.

Boiler Up!

They've currently just spent at least 10 mins repeating a level, but finally beat it. Can't wait to see them doing Super Mario 64.

the guy in the red shirt is INCREDIBLY annoying. he spits out some random thing someone said on twitter that has nothing to do with everything. everyone else just facepalms when he does.