JoshD
11-15-2004, 02:28 AM
http://www.childsplaycharity.org/
Here's the deal.
Last year we set up a charity called Child’s Play. We set it up because we were angry the media decided to blame all the world’s problems on games and gamers. Basically they said that gamers were bad people, and we thought that wasn’t right. Apparently, you guys agreed: through Child’s Play you sent more than $250,000 in toys, games, and cash to the sick kids at Seattle Children’s Hospital.
That was awesome. You guys have proven over and over again that you are an overwhelming force, and you really came through and made a real difference to the 190,000 kids that Seattle Children’s Hospital cares for each year. So we’re doing it again this year, only this time we’ve expanded Child’s Play to five hospitals across the U.S. so you can send toys to a hospital a little closer to home.
Child’s Play works the same as last year. With the help of hospital staff we’ve set up Amazon Wish Lists full of video games, toys, and movies. You can go to each hospital’s list and buy a toy, and that toy will be sent to the hospital. Some of these kids are in pretty bad shape—imagine being stuck alone in a hospital over the holidays--so getting something from a fellow gamer would really raise their spirits. Some of the stuff the hospital will give away for kids to keep, while other gifts (like consoles) will be kept by the hospital for patients to use throughout the year.
Penny Arcade has a readership of something like three and a half million gamers across the world. We are arguably the largest community of gamers on the internet. The important word there being community. This isn’t IGN, this isn’t Gamespy, we are not a faceless corporation and you are not just a number tracked by a database and then relayed to hungry advertisers. You guys have proven yourselves to be a powerful force when stirred into action. Here is your opportunity to use that power to do some real good.
Okay gamers from across the globe, this is your chance to show what you are really made of. This charity was set up by the boys over at Penny Arcade to get gamers, like yourself, to donate toys, games, books, movies, etc. to Children's Hospital. These are hospitals where they take care of children with really serious problems and help them where other hospitals can't. Its difficult when someone is going through a rough time with a disease or illness, but it is especially hard when that person is a child and should be out playing instead of couped up in a hospital room.
Let these children know that you are thinking of them, and that you care. These children just want the chance to have fun, and you have the opportunity to give that to them for as little as $5! So head on over to the Child's Play website and make a donation.
As an insentive, anyone who posts here and says they made a donation with be given the title of "Ultimate Gamer" (which will be displayed under your username when you post). You will be recognized as not only the ultimate gamer, but also the ultimate human.
Here's the deal.
Last year we set up a charity called Child’s Play. We set it up because we were angry the media decided to blame all the world’s problems on games and gamers. Basically they said that gamers were bad people, and we thought that wasn’t right. Apparently, you guys agreed: through Child’s Play you sent more than $250,000 in toys, games, and cash to the sick kids at Seattle Children’s Hospital.
That was awesome. You guys have proven over and over again that you are an overwhelming force, and you really came through and made a real difference to the 190,000 kids that Seattle Children’s Hospital cares for each year. So we’re doing it again this year, only this time we’ve expanded Child’s Play to five hospitals across the U.S. so you can send toys to a hospital a little closer to home.
Child’s Play works the same as last year. With the help of hospital staff we’ve set up Amazon Wish Lists full of video games, toys, and movies. You can go to each hospital’s list and buy a toy, and that toy will be sent to the hospital. Some of these kids are in pretty bad shape—imagine being stuck alone in a hospital over the holidays--so getting something from a fellow gamer would really raise their spirits. Some of the stuff the hospital will give away for kids to keep, while other gifts (like consoles) will be kept by the hospital for patients to use throughout the year.
Penny Arcade has a readership of something like three and a half million gamers across the world. We are arguably the largest community of gamers on the internet. The important word there being community. This isn’t IGN, this isn’t Gamespy, we are not a faceless corporation and you are not just a number tracked by a database and then relayed to hungry advertisers. You guys have proven yourselves to be a powerful force when stirred into action. Here is your opportunity to use that power to do some real good.
Okay gamers from across the globe, this is your chance to show what you are really made of. This charity was set up by the boys over at Penny Arcade to get gamers, like yourself, to donate toys, games, books, movies, etc. to Children's Hospital. These are hospitals where they take care of children with really serious problems and help them where other hospitals can't. Its difficult when someone is going through a rough time with a disease or illness, but it is especially hard when that person is a child and should be out playing instead of couped up in a hospital room.
Let these children know that you are thinking of them, and that you care. These children just want the chance to have fun, and you have the opportunity to give that to them for as little as $5! So head on over to the Child's Play website and make a donation.
As an insentive, anyone who posts here and says they made a donation with be given the title of "Ultimate Gamer" (which will be displayed under your username when you post). You will be recognized as not only the ultimate gamer, but also the ultimate human.