For the second straight year, some good folks have taken over a small portion of the internet and spent their time garnering donations for the Child’s Play Charity by completing a Mario Marathon. The group has spent over 50 hours to this point (as of 12:30 pm Sunday) playing through the NES, Super NES, N64, GameCube, and Wii Mario games, attempting to get 100% completion on each one, and they’ve raised over $14,000 dollars from fans across the globe for their efforts.

You can watch the marathon over at (appropriately enough) http://www.MarioMarathon.com and donate via PayPal directly from the site. They’re also trending pretty well on Twitter, with loads of people “chatting” via the message service. Head over and check these guys out! It’s like hanging around the house playing games with 1200 of your closest friends.

From Child’s Play’s official website:

Since 2003, over 100,000 gamers worldwide have banded together through Child’s Play, a community based charity grown and nurtured from the game culture and industry. Over 3.5 million dollars in donations of toys, games, books and cash for sick kids in children’s hospitals across North America and the world have been collected since our inception.

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