Geekathon (The miraculous twentieth post)

This post is truly miraculous. I went to the Geekathon on friday night and lived to tell the story! Geekathon was a sponsored charity fundraiser for a childrens charity known as "Child's Play". We were sponsored to play 12 hours of video-games overnight. So at 7 pm an hour before the games began TVs, laptops, PS3s, Xbox 360s, PS2s, Nintendo Gamecubes, and Nintendo Wiis were unloaded and ready to go for eight O'clock. My own set up was rather easy as it merely involved getting my laptop out, plugging in a mouse and headphones, and turning the thing on! So after pulling a 2L bottle of Dr. Pepper, 2 six packs of coke, a bag of Doritos, and two bars of chocolate I was all ready to go. My game of choice was Mass Effect 3, which had come out on the day of the Geekathon! A fantastic game I would have been satisfied merely with the introduction of the game alone. It was well worth the wait, as I had pre-ordered it in November 2011. I cannot think of anything better to have spent 12 hours playing. However, twelve hours of playing didn't even dent the content of the game! I give honourable mention to who I believe to be some of the best gamers of the night. The people who played guitar hero for a good 7 hours. Their skill frightened me. I was unable to believe their ability to play, not only as individual gamers, but as part of a full gaming band. Also, Josh Carr walked up to me while playing a song on guitar hero on a console on the opposite side of the room. No one should be able to play blind on hard! Another honourable mention has to be to the guy who set up his consoles next to my laptop and played Pacman championship edition. His inhuman reflexes were truly mind blowing. Also, he kept me topped up with galaxy minstrels. All in all, Geekathon was a huge success. Kudos to Josh Carr, who's idea it was.