Extra Life 2023

The short version:

I’ll be playing games for 24 hours (again! for the ninth year!) spread across November 11th and 12th to benefit Children’s Hospital here in Pittsburgh. You can support my efforts by GOING HERE TO CONTRIBUTE A PLEDGE. You should also be able to watch my live feed of the gaming day on my youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/rickreynolds1969. I should be streaming (roughly) between 9:00am EST and 9:00pm EST both days.

The longer version:

Every year the Extra Life organization has a gaming day where people pledge to play games of any kind (video games, board games, card games, whatever) for a 24 hour period. People can pledge money to support these gaming efforts and the monies collected go to help a local Children’s Hospital.

It’s kinda like a walk-a-thon or other such fund-raiser – you pledge money towards a good cause in a way that also supports the efforts of a friend.

Consistent with how I’ve done things the past couple of years, I’ve decided that I’m getting too old for this … uh, stuff. I’ll again break up the 24 hours of gaming across a Saturday and Sunday of a single weekend. This has worked well for me so I’m sticking with this plan moving forward.

Based on previous years, I’ve set a goal of $800. That should really be attainable. I’m not an overly competitive guy, so I’m not on a crazy campaign to out-do previous years’ amounts (although that would be great), I’m just wanting to do something fun that benefits kids. I’d love it if you would sponsor me by GOING HERE TO CONTRIBUTE A PLEDGE.

For most of my gaming streaming I’ll be concentrating on pre-crash systems (stuff that pre-dates the NES). But I do have other systems as well and may branch out a bit. You never know!

At any rate here’s a list of stuff you might see if you pull up my live feed:

  • Intellivision
  • Atari 2600
  • Odyssey 2
  • Colecovision
  • Atari 5200
  • Atari 7800
  • Bally Astrocade
  • Vectrex
  • Fairchild Channel F
  • Emerson Arcadia
  • Pong (assuming I can get an opponent)
  • RCA Studio II
  • Unisonic Olympian 2600
  • Nintendo Entertainment System
  • Sega Genesis
  • Super Nintendo Entertainment System
  • Atari Video Pinball
  • Sega Master System
  • Sega SG-1000 (via the SMS)
  • APF MP1000
  • Sears Motocross
  • Sony Playstation 2
  • Coleco Telstar Arcade
  • Nintendo N64
  • Sega Dreamcast
  • Turbo Grafx 16
  • Sega Saturn
  • Commodore 64

You should be able to see the gameplay by going to my youtube channel on the streaming days November 11th and 12th: https://www.youtube.com/user/rickreynolds1969.

Thanks so much!
Rick