I’m not-live blogging our Extra-Life 2015 Marathon! Our team, The Vidiots, is done! 24 hours of gaming, goofing and doing good by sick kids!

We lost about half the team before the end, but enough of us made it we’re counting this a solid, if groggy, victory! As we approached the end, some of the punch drunk – but still conscious! – team members decided to celebrate with song.

Thanks to my lovely bride who went above and beyond to help us pull this off and all of my team members. We didn’t meet our fundraising goal, but still raised $393 to help the Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals!

I’m not-live blogging our Extra-Life 2015 Marathon! Our team, The Vidiots, is 22 hours in and still playing! Well some of us are playing. We’ve lost more than a few. The survivors are still plugging along, but for how much longer is anybody’s guess.

We’re playing:

• Somebody decided that Kirby and the Rainbow Curse was necessary. That was retired for Super Mario Sunshine after a few minutes.
• The current champion got further in Undertale than ever before… and then died horribly.
• We ended up on the PS3 for a while and sampled some of the smaller, quieter games like Rain and the amazing The Unfinished Swan. We also dusted off PixelJunk Monsters, a classic tower defense game.
• Despite being nearly comatose, we ended having a great pass-the-controller session with the amazingly high-speed twitch game Race the Sun on PS4. This is exactly the kind of game that you don’t want to play with compromised reflexes, but we had a blast.

Here are some pictures!

We’re almost to the finish line!

I’m not-live blogging our Extra-Life 2015 Marathon! Our team, The Vidiots, is 20 hours in and still playing! Well, most of us are playing. We’re playing slowly and sloppily, but we’re still playing.

We’re playing:

• More of The Binding of Isaac. They’re finding some really weird things in that basement.
• A little Grand Theft Auto V was played, quietly, off to the side.
• Phones saw some Puzzle and Dragons. Well my phone saw some. Damn that fifth challenge dungeon!

Here are some pictures!

More to come!

I’m not-live blogging our Extra-Life 2015 Marathon! Our team, The Vidiots, is 18 hours in and still playing! We cooked up some hot food to give everybody a little boost and a break from the salt and sugar.

We’re playing:

• Two team members have dedicated themselves to a The Binding of Isaac mini-marathon.
• The rest spent a few minutes reliving their childhoods by playing “Spongebob Squarepants” on the GameCube, then, surprisingly, abandoned it for an extended (and very loud) session of Scattergories.
• The streaming of Dark Souls II: Scholar of the First Sin on the EatThatWontonSoup Twitch channel is on hold (the players have wandered over to the Scattergories game), but may start up again.

Here are some pictures!

More to come!

I’m not-live blogging our Extra-Life 2015 Marathon! Our team, The Vidiots, is 16 hours in and still playing! The team is getting something of a second wind after spending 30 minutes searching high and low for a missing cell phone (it was under the couch).

We also had our first casualty! It didn’t come as a surprise as this particular team member worked the night before (and is heading to work later today), but it still may be giving some of the other guys ideas. Sleepy, nappy, snoozy ideas!

We’re playing:

• Some of the team have gravitated back to Super Smash Bros. on the Wii-U, but that faded off to a core group trying Resident Evil 4 from the Gamecube.
• We’ve got one man that hasn’t stopped – and doesn’t look like he ever will – playing  The Binding of Isaac.
• Most of the team is still streaming Dark Souls II: Scholar of the First Sin on PlayStation 4 on the EatThatWontonSoup Twitch channel.

Here are some pictures!

More to come!

I’m not-live blogging our Extra-Life 2015 Marathon! Our team, The Vidiots, is 14 hours in and still playing! Things are wobbling between semi-comatose, nearly automatic play and short periods of frantic activity.

We’re playing:

• Fallout 3 has been abandoned. There’s not a whole lot of dedication in this group.
• More The Binding of Isaac. It’s a game that you can play over and over (and over) and still not feel like you’re getting any better at.
• Currently the bulk of the group is streaming Dark Souls II: Scholar of the First Sin on PlayStation 4 on the EatThatWontonSoup Twitch channel!

Here, as has become the habit, are some pictures!

More to come!

I’m not-live blogging our Extra-Life 2015 Marathon! Our team, The Vidiots, could still use donations! We’re half-way in and a while a few are starting to flag, most are still going at speed! We’ve been playing:

• So much more Super Smash Bros.
• Fallout 3 is still going on and you can watch on Twitch at EatThatWontonSoup.
• There’s some very heated The Binding of Isaac play going on.
• PlayStation 4 TowerFall, a favorite from last year, has had a big resurgence of popularity!

Most interesting, one of the more industrious participants has taken it upon himself to construct a virtual reality headset from the old pizza boxes. Crazy thing is, it actually works. Kinda. Here are some pictures!

More to come!

I’m not-live blogging our Extra-Life 2015 Marathon! Our team, The Vidiots, could still use donations! We’ve got some part-timers in now, and one of our starters had to leave, but we’re still going string.  We can always use more sick kids; they’re so inspiring! We’ve been playing:

• We seem to have abandoned the Fallout 3 shopping cart collection, but are now streaming whatever the hell is going on to Twitch as EatThatWontonSoup!
• The part-timers (a bunch of 13 year girls, so: LOUD!) have taken over the main TV and are having way too much fun with Hamster Ball, an oldie-but-goodie PS3 racing/maze/obstacle course… thing.
• They then migrated to the table to play Apples-to-Apples and the (we’re told, smelly) boys pulled out the funky “Buzz” controllers and had some unexpected fun with Buzz!: Quiz TV.

Pictures!

More to come!

I’m not-live blogging our Extra-Life 2015 Marathon! We’re eight hours in and going strong! Our team, The Vidiots, could still use donations! We can always use more sick kids; they’re so inspiring! It’s dinner time, so we decided on a stack of pizza and rousing game of Munchkin using way too many expansions!

Pictures!

More to come!