Mario Marathon - Donate to Child's Play

ArcSyn

Gabe and Tycho just twittered (tweeted?) about this.

http://www.mariomarathon.com/

Think Desert Bus, but playing every Mario game instead. It doesn't look like they're doing any particular order (the star chart shows them skipping around a bit), but check it out and watch some Mario!

Last year they raised over $11,000. Can you help them beat it this year?

Frem

Woah, are they already on Super Mario 64? Are they playing these things in order?

Oh, they aren't. Ok.

ArcSyn

I just saw that they (and others joined in) did this with Zelda last year. I hope they do it again because that would be awesome. Even though they didn't raise nearly as much with Zelda as they did with Mario.

When I was watching (as I posted this) they got a call from the local news interviewing them and what they were doing. Pretty cool to see this stuff get more mainstream attention. Hope they can shatter last year's amount!

redfield85

I am watching the Couch Dog cam more than anything. I think it is hilarious that they (the viewers) named the dog Couch Dog.

Glenn565

They're trying to 100% SMB2 right now, and are dying a lot on World 5. I'd hate to see how they'd fair on SMW's special levels.

FyreWulff

The game video should be the main video (and have the most audio), while they should be the inset..

Frem

I dunno, after watching them fail at those Super Mario 64 desert and water levels over and over again, they were definitely more entertaining than the video insert. Watching that one guy start to play Sunshine made me want to donate to get someone else to play.

Plus, if they were the insert, how would we get a good look at Couchdog?

AbsoluteZero

It'd be more like desert bus if they played Mario Sunshine for a week nonstop.

Mustachio Jones

Some people would argue that playing Mario Sunshine at all is worse than a week of Desert Bus.

Quite honestly, having spent my New Year's 07-08 doing a desert bus run was probably the worst experience of my life. We aimed to get one point, and we got that one point at like 10:30am, everyone completely fucked over from sleep deprivation and mind-numbing bus noises. We ended up looping Through the Fire and the Flames to make things worse, and that was easily the worst part.

Needless to say, it's something everyone needs to do at least once in their life.

I give these guys mad props for doing something that I wish I could do, even if this isn't DBFH, and it's Mario.

Frem

So, wait. What was so bad about Sunshine? I see all this criticism of it, yet it still pops up in most every "must have" list for Gamecube. The guy playing it on the stream was just horrible in general; he was just messing around and not actually going for any of the goals.

anoffday

Woa, these guys are serious. Is that one guy dressed up like Luigi?

Anyway, good luck to them. Child's Play is an awesome organization. I hope they raise a ton.

Frem wrote: »

So, wait. What was so bad about Sunshine? I see all this criticism of it, yet it still pops up in most every "must have" list for Gamecube. The guy playing it on the stream was just horrible in general; he was just messing around and not actually going for any of the goals.

I don't see what's so bad about it either. I have it. I haven't beaten it yet, but what I've played so far I thought was awesome.

redfield85

Frem wrote: »

Plus, if they were the insert, how would we get a good look at Couchdog?

Can't get any more lime than that.

They are up to $11,101.64. So awesome. I swear they die way more than they should. Haha.

I really wish I would've done something for Child's Play while I was in college. It was on my to do list and I never did it.

xWonderboyx

I was coming to post this but was beaten by a day. Either way, awesome.

ArcSyn

I like how $12,000 is Mario Galaxy 100%, but Mario Sunshine 100% is $24,000.

I never liked Sunshine. It just didn't feel much like a mario game, imo.

Zek

Mario Sunshine is a great video game but a poor Mario game. It just doesn't have the magic.

DeMoN

My pet peeve

When people doing a livestream of a game make the mistake of thinking I want to look at them

The game should take up most of the screen

McAllen

This reminds me of Simben's contribution, which was entertaining and successful. If my skimming hasn't failed me, it seems to be in the same vein.

Zek

DeMoN wrote: »

My pet peeve

When people doing a livestream of a game make the mistake of thinking I want to look at them

The game should take up most of the screen

I would prefer that too assuming they can do podcast-style commentary. Staring at them through a camera, they're usually just a bunch of chumps sitting around in a daze.

ArcSyn

I like how Desert bus kinda gives us both. You can see a screen of just them, or a screen of the game. Though Desert Bus is hardly the game you would probably sit and watch.

I want to do this with my friends.. Need to figure out what we would do though.

redfield85

They need a continuous camera on Couch Dog.

McAllen

Zek wrote: »

DeMoN wrote: »

My pet peeve

When people doing a livestream of a game make the mistake of thinking I want to look at them

The game should take up most of the screen

I would prefer that too assuming they can do podcast-style commentary. Staring at them through a camera, they're usually just a bunch of chumps sitting around in a daze.

Yeah, with Simben's there was live commentary from fans and the people running the show would answer or do most of the things they were told to. It kind of worked, but the quality of the light and visual effects were very blurry and I couldn't even see a lot of the images because it was so bad. But it was their first run, I think.

EDIT: Referring the the video quality of the actual game.

Shady3011

They're pansies for not doing Lost Levels at all.

Elaro

What did Simben do?

maximumzero

Every time I see this stuff I'm tempted to start a ustream account.

Then I realize that

a) nobody would watch me play videogames live

b) I'd have to drag my TV & videogame hardware over to the computer every time I wanted to do this.

redfield85

$12,225 raised so far. Spread the word if you have Twitter. (#mariomarathon)

Watching this made me turn on my Wii (even if only for a brief 5 minutes). I might replay Galaxy soon.

And yea, if I knew exactly what I needed to stream stuff, I would do it all the time. I have the Dazzle, but it isn't happy about HD gaming (plus I don't know how to stream video to Ustream). I tried before and failed.

DeadLiar

I do say that this is by far the best part of this.

I will say though, to be honest, most of this is boring.
It is, however, hard to make Mario games interesting.

redfield85

I don't find it THAT boring. Plus, when it goes slow, there is always Couch Dog and the guys reading the Twitter/Chat.

Shady3011

They aren't particular good Mario players. Then again, sleep deprivation does take a toll on one's skills.

redfield85

No. They just aren't that good. Haha.

edit: Them sucking at these games and not knowing the Pokemon theme song is angering me. Casual gamers. Pfft.

The Dude With Herpes

I don't think them not knowing the pokemon theme song is a negative point.

Dude is straight up terrible at SMW though.

anoffday

DeMoN wrote: »

My pet peeve

When people doing a livestream of a game make the mistake of thinking I want to look at them

The game should take up most of the screen

I usually agree, but at least this time I get to see a guy dressed like Luigi.

AbsoluteZero

I'd like to come in and kick the ass out of all these games. They should do something interesting like show all the crazy hidden shit. Demonstrate how to get the coin ships and N cards and white mushroom houses and crap.

Athenor

AbsoluteZero wrote: »

I'd like to come in and kick the ass out of all these games. They should do something interesting like show all the crazy hidden shit. Demonstrate how to get the coin ships and N cards and white mushroom houses and crap.

They've raised over 15,000 dollars as normal guys.

Improvolone

:sigh:
I hate bad Mario players (not as people, kudos for raising cash).

Xtarath

Yeah, it is kind of awful to watch.

AbsoluteZero

Athenor wrote: »

AbsoluteZero wrote: »

I'd like to come in and kick the ass out of all these games. They should do something interesting like show all the crazy hidden shit. Demonstrate how to get the coin ships and N cards and white mushroom houses and crap.

They've raised over 15,000 dollars as normal guys.

That doesn't make it not boring and painful to watch.

ArcSyn

While they are terrible at times (saw one Mario 64 moment where he was probably 10 steps from the star, went to get a coin box and fell down maybe 15 levels that he just spent probably 30 minutes climbing), it's almost better that way. It's more of a passive thing to come in and out of to watch and you don't have to sit and stare at it. Plus it's almost hilarious how bad they can be at it. You would think after playing Mario for so many days they would be pretty good at it.

AbsoluteZero

ArcSyn wrote: »

While they are terrible at times (saw one Mario 64 moment where he was probably 10 steps from the star, went to get a coin box and fell down maybe 15 levels that he just spent probably 30 minutes climbing), it's almost better that way. It's more of a passive thing to come in and out of to watch and you don't have to sit and stare at it. Plus it's almost hilarious how bad they can be at it. You would think after playing Mario for so many days they would be pretty good at it.

I bet if it were first person and dual wielding they'd be a lot better at it.

Glenn565

They finally got all 120 Stars in Mario 64, after taking all of two hours getting the last one. There's no way in hell they're completing Sunshine.:(

They've raised $16,300 though!

The Mantiz

Thank God! They finally finished Super Mario 64.

McAllen

Elaro wrote: »

What did Simben do?

Simben and his French Friends got together and did a marathon of Resident Evil. It was a 24 hour marathon and granted they didn't get to complete some of my favorites (Just RE:CV, really), they raised a nice sum of money for their first attempt, all going to Child's Play I think.

EDIT: After seeing some footage it was exactly like what these guys did, except video quality was worse. I really wish I didn't miss all the 2D marios . But holy cow 17,000 is a lot of weed or drugs or presents for underprivileged children

EDIT: And oh my god these guys are total Mario fhegs!