Pull Out Method
12-12-2007, 12:36 PM
I know a lot of us are gamers here, and I want to believe that we are mostly good people. :poke: I know this post is long, but please read it anyway...
I stop by www.penny-arcade.com religiously on wednesdays and check out the new comic. It's always funny because it hits close to home. A few years back the guys over there started a charity called Child's Play (www.childsplaycharity.org). They wanted to show that gamers can do something good once in a while, and not just get blamed for shooting up schools and whatnot. So the first year they picked a children's hospital close by and asked their readers to donate a video game, a console, or some cash so that the kids in the hospital could have at least a few good minutes while stuck in there. The response was overwhelming. I can't find the pics on their site anymore, but they had to rent a semi to move all the donated stuff.
This year there are, by my count, fifty hospitals across the US, Canada, Great Britain, Australia, and even one in Egypt, that are on their list. All you have to do is click on the hospital link on the child's play site, and you are redirected to an amazon wishlist that each hospital has put together. You can even donate cash via paypal if you can't find anything that interests you on the wishlist. That's it. They take care of getting the stuff where it needs to go. And they don't take a single penny for the work. ALL of the money and games go to the kids.
On a related note: One of my favorite podcasts (www.nintendoworldreport.com) (Radio Free Nintendo on iTunes) had a recent interview with one of the writers from Penny Arcade, Mike Krahulik. He tells the entire story of Child's Play.
I stop by www.penny-arcade.com religiously on wednesdays and check out the new comic. It's always funny because it hits close to home. A few years back the guys over there started a charity called Child's Play (www.childsplaycharity.org). They wanted to show that gamers can do something good once in a while, and not just get blamed for shooting up schools and whatnot. So the first year they picked a children's hospital close by and asked their readers to donate a video game, a console, or some cash so that the kids in the hospital could have at least a few good minutes while stuck in there. The response was overwhelming. I can't find the pics on their site anymore, but they had to rent a semi to move all the donated stuff.
This year there are, by my count, fifty hospitals across the US, Canada, Great Britain, Australia, and even one in Egypt, that are on their list. All you have to do is click on the hospital link on the child's play site, and you are redirected to an amazon wishlist that each hospital has put together. You can even donate cash via paypal if you can't find anything that interests you on the wishlist. That's it. They take care of getting the stuff where it needs to go. And they don't take a single penny for the work. ALL of the money and games go to the kids.
On a related note: One of my favorite podcasts (www.nintendoworldreport.com) (Radio Free Nintendo on iTunes) had a recent interview with one of the writers from Penny Arcade, Mike Krahulik. He tells the entire story of Child's Play.