Penny Arcade : generosity at its best

[Epsilon 5]

A while ago (i don't remember when it started) PA started a campaign to help donate toys (and money) to the Seattle Children's Hospital & Regional Medical Center called Child's play.

Now it's over - and PA along with their readers contributed over 125k$ worth of toys and money, including over 27 thousands in money alone.

It started with this (quoted from the FAQ)

quote:

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Here's the deal.

If you are like me, every time you see an article like

this one

- where the author claims that video games are training our nations youth to kill - you get angry. The media seems intent on perpetuating the myth that gamers are ticking time bombs just waiting to go off. I know for a fact that gamers are good people. I have had the opportunity on multiple occasions to meet hundreds of you at conventions all over the country. We are just regular people who happen to love video games.

With that in mind we have put together a little something we like to call ÔÇ£ChildÔÇÖs Play.ÔÇØ Penny Arcade is working with the Seattle ChildrenÔÇÖs Hospital and Amazon.com to make this Christmas really special for a lot of very sick kids. With the help of the ChildrenÔÇÖs Hospital we have created an Amazon Wish List for the kids. ItÔÇÖs full of video games, movies and toys. Some of these kids are in pretty bad shape and just having a Game Boy would really raise their spirits.

Please take some time to browse the Wish List. Maybe all you can afford is a package of batteries or maybe you want to go in with your entire office and get the kids a GameCube. Every single contribution will help out the ChildrenÔÇÖs Hospital and the 190,000 kids they treat each year.

All the toys and games will be delivered to us and we will in turn deliver them to the ChildrenÔÇÖs Hospital. As soon as the toys start arriving IÔÇÖll set up a web site and post as many pictures as I can. We will be making a trip over to one of the hospitals next week and weÔÇÖll bring you back stories from some of the kids along with more pictures.

Penny Arcade has a readership of something like 150,000 gamers across the world. We are arguably the largest community of gamers on the internet. The important word there being community. This isnÔÇÖt IGN, this isnÔÇÖt Gamespy, we are not a faceless corporation, 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.

LetÔÇÖs give these kids the Christmas that they deserve and letÔÇÖs give the news papers a different kind of story to write about gamers.

-Gabe out

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If you follow the link to the Child's play webpage and look at the picture, you'll see sorting the toys was no easy task!

The Seattle Times published this article about them.

Great stuff

EDIT - it seems the heraldnet article fell down the archive drain and you need to pay to access the archive ..

[chrismoney7]

thats cool.....