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Annual Child's Play Charity Drive Begins

Posted by Zonk on from the from-one-geek-to-another dept.

Many, many thanks to the gentlemen at Penny Arcade for the kickoff of their now annual Child's Play Charity Drive. The drive is intended to hook up willing people in our community with children's hospitals across the country, to spread some geeky christmas love to young folks that need it. This year the drive extends across the country, and you can donate toys to hospitals in Seattle, Oakland, San Diego, Houston, and D.C.. Tycho has a little startup post on Penny Arcade, as well.

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  1. Uh... by fahrvergnugen · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Did I miss something, or does the hospital in Oakland want 20 Donkey Konga bongos, but no actual copies of the game?

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    1. Re:Uh... by fahrvergnugen · · Score: 3, Interesting

      While it's true that Donkey Konga comes with a single set of bongos, it's also possible to buy the bongos without the game, they're just currently very, very hard to find because Donkey Konga is so fun in multiplayer. So fun, as you pointed out, that people are willing to buy 3 spare copies of the game just to get 4-player games going.

      The stand-alone bongos are the item that the Oakland hospital has on its wishlist, not the bongos with game included.

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  2. Been following Penny Arcade for years.. by ID000001 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    And watch them grows, right from the material they post about, and the skill to their drawing, all the way to their artical and follower. They truely did came a long way, but at no time have I been able to predict a community can grows into such respectable manner. A Video game community! And to top it off, this is only the second time they try this. Maybe it will turn into someone big.. Hell, it already is something big, in just two years. Considering how much Penny Arcade have grow in the past.. I can not imagine what Child's play can turn into. It could become something huge, something national.. We shall see.

  3. Best Quote by jcsehak · · Score: 5, Interesting

    from the site:

    "Michael Thomas, the PA reader who helped us add up all the toys purchased as of late last night also had this very nice quote at the end of his message to us:

    'Now I understand what all of the anti-videogame people ment when they said children raised on games would grow up abnormal. They were right, we'd all grow up with really big hearts.'"

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  4. Re:Hey Crackhead by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Besides being off topic, I read this on CraigsList like a month ago...

  5. Child's Play has multiple references by SeanDuggan · · Score: 2, Interesting
    ^_^ Kodomo no Omocha, a piece of Japanese anime, was released under that title. (It's also been released as "Child's Toy" and "Kodocha" that I know of)

    Honestly, I don't know what the significance of the name is in Tycho and Gabe's heads. (Can't read the article here at work, as their site is flagged as Mature/Gaming) I would be mildly surprised if they hadn't realized the immediate association in people's heads to the horror movie, but maybe they simply wrote up the title as a literal rendition of what they planned the drive to be about, children getting joy through playing.

    That said, I was a contributor last year. Twenty bucks went that some kid out there got an art kit that I would have killed to have had as a child. *wry grin* And then to balance things out, I gave $20 to a chairty providing food and shelter so I guess I was out $40, but eh...

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  6. Trust Amazon? by quitcherbitchen · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I'm curious what role Amazon plays in all this. Many of the games I looked at were priced at retail which makes me wonder how big their slice of the pie is. I'd like to know exactly how much they take off the top for their overhead and if they pass the profits along to the charity.

    This should really be a question in their FAQ.

    1. Re:Trust Amazon? by quitcherbitchen · · Score: 2, Interesting

      I like the idea of being able to control how my donations are being used by donating something from the wishlist. However, if Amazon isn't compromising at all, then the cash option sounds the best. I do think this is a great cause and I like the theme behind it.

      I had seen the details you posted on the Child's Play site, but I still want to know the details behind the Amazon deal. For an opportunity to gain hundreds of thousands of dollars of business, I would think they are offering more service than a simple wishlist.

  7. It feels sooooo damn good to do it. by Dot+Com+Drew · · Score: 2, Interesting
    I'm a broke student (as in 3 months late on my rent) and I still conned a few friends into helping me get an xbox for childs play last year. This year I'm asking that people give stuff (items or $$) to them instead of a lot of the smaller stuff that I get.

    This is the perfect charity for me and I love the feeling every time that I turn on my xbox that there is some kid/family/whatever not too far from where I live who can enjoy a fun game for a while and forget about whatever pain they are in.

    http://www.childsplaycharity.org/
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