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That’s a wrap on the 2023 version of Summer season Sport Achieved Fast. It’s been a full week of taking part in video video games means sooner than the Gods of Gameplay supposed. Speedrunners gathered in Minneapolis, MN, and awed us with their speedy thumbs for a strong week. Now that the mud has settled, the Summer season Video games Achieved Fast organizers have revealed that this 12 months netted a whole of $2,239,204 for Medical doctors With out Borders (Médecins Sans Frontières).

Medical doctors With out Borders is a charity that places educated professionals the place they’re wanted. They supply medical care, assist, and reduction to wartorn areas and places affected by illness. In addition they accumulate statistics in these areas, on prime of different humanitarian work.

?TIME? #SGDQ2023 has raised a complete of $2,239,204 for @MSF_USA!

Thanks to everybody who made this marathon attainable, and to all of you in your wonderful generosity & assist. See you all subsequent time at #AGDQ2024!! ❤️

Thanks, Chef ?‍?✨ pic.twitter.com/SVtxMqB9ZK

— Video games Achieved Fast @ #SGDQ2023 (@GamesDoneQuick) June 4, 2023

In case you missed it

Should you missed the Summer season Video games Achieved Fast festivities, listed here are some highlights:

EoDTexSR tackled Pocky & Rocky: Reshrined. This can be a little bit of an odd selection since lots of the sport is auto-scrolling sections. Nonetheless, it’s fairly fascinating to see them place optimize their power-ups and place their character precisely the place they must be to maintain the display screen transferring.

Need some kusoge? I ought to most likely add this to my record of video games to cowl in my weekly(ish) column. It’s Cat within the Hat, launched on PlayStation in 2004!? Speedrunner Mildew completes the doubtful sport in a brief 10:49. Rattling! That’s environment friendly.

How concerning the hidden NES gem (that I’m not an enormous fan of) Shatterhand? I get bored after perhaps two ranges, however Amad finishes it in 21:55. Wow! I believe even my brief consideration span might deal with that.

There have been additionally some superior makes an attempt at The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild whereas blindfolded and Tony Hawk’s Underground at Summer season Video games Achieved Fast. A very fascinating occasion was round Tremendous Mario Maker 2 being performed competitively in a team-based relay type. Group members performed ranges they’d by no means seen earlier than and competed to see who might do them faster.

To place this into context, Summer season Video games Achieved Fast 2022 raised over $3 million. Whereas this 12 months’s quantity is decrease, it’s nonetheless a massively spectacular quantity and one thing to be pleased with. Breaking video games to see the credit sooner is a terrific strategy to get avid gamers to open their wallets for charity, as Video games Achieved Fast proves 12 months after 12 months. Good job to everybody concerned, the avid gamers, the hosts, and, in fact, the organizers.

Zoey Handley

Workers Author – Zoey is a gaming gadabout. She bought her begin running a blog with the group in 2018 and hit the entrance web page quickly after. Usually discovered exploring indie experiments and retro libraries, she does her finest to stay chronically uncool.

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