Complete Game Marathon to Benefit Haiti

February 22, 2010 -

The Singapore-MIT Game Lab has planned a benefit for Haiti earthquake victims that involves epic lengths of game play.

The Complete Game Completion Marathon 2010 will see a group of teams attempt to complete a wide variety of games. The event takes place this weekend, February 26-28 in the Gambit Game Lab on the campus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts and will be broadcast live on Ustream.

Donations are being accepted via the Complete Game Completion Marathon 2010 website and will benefit Partners in Health, a group that brings modern medical care to poor communities and which has been active in Haiti for over 20 years.

A full list of teams, with the games they will play and the estimated time of completion, follows:

The Stickhandlers—NHL 10 full season—25 hours
Fire Hose for Haiti—Final Fantasy, Mega Man 9 and Mario Kart—35 hours
Being Bad for Good—Mass Effect 1 and 2—25 hours
A Song for the World—Hatsune Miku: Project Diva—30 hours
The Panzerfaustian Bargain—Left 4 Dead—8 hours
Team Funwolf—Shadow of the Colossus—8 hours
Team Funwolf: Lonewolf—The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time—15 hours
Clara Fernandez Vara—The Curse of Monkey Island—15 hours
Team Medkit—Doom 1 and 2—15 hours
Team Friendless—Phantom Hourglass—18 hours
Consoles Are So Last Millennium—every game on Marleigh Norton’s iPhone—13.5 hours

The Singapore-MIT Game Lab is a partnership between MIT and the government of Singapore designed to explore new directions in the development of videogames.

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Re: Complete Game Marathon to Benefit Haiti

Submitted by sharpshooterbabe on Wed, 02/24/2010 - 10:20.

This is an awesome cause. If I could I would get some female gamers around and play Modern Warfare 2 and Modern Warfare for this cause.

"It's better to be hated for who you are, then be loved for who you are not." - Montgomery Gentry

Re: Complete Game Marathon to Benefit Haiti

Submitted by Adamas Draconis on Mon, 02/22/2010 - 12:30.

Always good to hear about something like this. And if I could, Team Fire hose for me.

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Re: Complete Game Marathon to Benefit Haiti

Submitted by Talouin on Mon, 02/22/2010 - 12:17.

Second link is broken. It reads http://%20http//cgcmarathon.org

Re: Complete Game Marathon to Benefit Haiti

Submitted by Liz Surette on Mon, 02/22/2010 - 11:32.

I wish I'd known about this--and if I'd joined Funwolf I would've gotten off pretty easy too

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