UPDATE!: The Marathon’s over and the guys caught all 493 Pokémon and raised over $18,000 for Ally’s House charity! That’s over $3000 more than their target! Amazing work, guys.
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The guys over at TheSpeedGamers.com are attempting to raise $15,000 for Ally’s House, a charity which helps kids with cancer and their families, by catching every Pokémon in the Nintendo Gameboy and DS games within 72 hours. This is no simple feat, I know, as it literally took me several weeks of playing and trading Pokémon with friends back in the 90s to capture the then-complete Pokédex of 151. Today, there are 493 Pocket Monsters to be caught, spread out over several games. What a cool way to raise money for a good cause while playing an awesome game, right?
As I write this, they’ve been playing for 33 hours, have raised a little over $7000 and caught 227 Pokémon and counting. If you’d like to help TheSpeedGamers make their goal and/or see the live feed of their progress, head on over to TheSpeedGamers.com before the marathon ends. Pika!
OoOoOoO! I am liking your artwork for the Pokemons! This is quite an interesting charity. Watching it now, and they’re 61 hours into it, and have caught 451 Pokemon and have 975 people viewing it.
wow! they’ve almost reached their goal of all 493 Pokémon, then! i was watching last night and they were already over $10,000 so it looks like they’ll reach their $15,000 goal, too. awesome. 😀
oh, and you may remember the Pikachu/Raichu artwork from this strip.
Rats. I can’t see it from work. Anything game related is blocked. Like we can’t waste tons of time on non-game related sites that aren’t blocked like Twitter, etc. 😛
damn, am I reading this right? 493 Pokemon?! How did it get that high so fast? to be honest, I thought that 151 was enough, but since they’ve been stretching the whole series, it’s getting ridiculous to see that there have been that many freakin’ Pokemon!