72-hour charity marathon lets internet pick games, gets really tough ones
by Mike Schramm 
on Dec 30th 2010 12:30AM
The marathon gaming team
Wily Whompers was scheduled to race team
Zeldathon this week, but when that showdown fell through, it decided to turn its marathon into a Viewer's Choice of sorts, asking
Reddit readers to help choose which games to play for 72 hours straight. The group is also
raising money for Child's Play as it streams the event -- so far it has only reached a few hundred dollars, but there's still time left to play ... and watch.
The team started with a run through
Mega Man 10 and then the Reddit folks showed a cruel streak, sending the players through
Super Meat Boy (we're told they beat all of the Light World levels and the warp zones),
Super Ghouls N Ghosts and a few other unforgiving titles before the Whompers' current challenge as of this writing: Beating the forehead-slappingly difficult
Demon's Souls. We can only wish them luck -- we're hard pressed to do
anything for three days straight, much less play some of the hardest games around.
