New troops charity seeks your handheld spares
Posted Apr 9th 2008 2:15PM by Chris Greenhough
Filed under: News
You should have seen us when we were fifteen. 'Orrible, we were. All sulky, zit-ridden, and full of attitude (of course, we're regular sunbeams now) as we moped around in our NAFNAF jumpers and spent most of our free time scowling at the profound injustice of the world.
We certainly weren't as impressive or as honorable as, say, young teens Peter Gallagher and Jack Wilson, who spent an inordinate amount of time and effort setting up GamesforHeroes.com, a non-profit, registered charity that aims to get handheld games and systems (DSes, Game Boys, that Sony one,
N-Gages) into the mitts of the brave men and women serving in Iraq and Afghanistan. Gallagher tipped our daddy site Joystiq about their project, and asked if they could shed some light on this worthy cause. They did, and now we're doing the same!
Obviously, there are similar initiatives going on elsewhere -- at least one of which we've
posted about -- but you can never have enough goodwill, eh? Hit the "Read" link below to see how you can help out.
[Via Joystiq]
Tags: charity, donate, gamesforheroes.com, military, trade-in, troops
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4-09-2008 @ 2:59PM
jsutcliffe said...
To paraphrase Billy Connolly, "Spare DS? I'm not sure I understand the concept"
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4-09-2008 @ 4:43PM
ArmorForVictor said...
come on chris that sony one? can't we all just get along i fear for my life everyday crossing between dsfanboy and into pspfanboy. can't we live in a sontendo world?
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4-12-2008 @ 12:01AM
Matdredalia said...
You really don't understand the concept of being a fanboy, do you? :-P
4-14-2008 @ 3:28PM
ArmorForVictor said...
and you don't understand the concept of being both a nintendo and sony fanboy which i am.
4-10-2008 @ 4:59AM
Dio said...
So uh... What would the chances be of a flashcart making its way into the hands of a US soldier?
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4-12-2008 @ 12:02AM
Matdredalia said...
I don't think it'd happen hon, sadly.
Though I think it'd be really cool if NoA or SoA would provide flashcart like games to soldiers, hospitals, etc. You know, make a compilation of like, 10 of the best DS games on one cart that is a special cartridge only available to charities.
4-10-2008 @ 10:27AM
aliquis said...
Yeah a handheld will help if you get shoot. Just let them go home and send down Bush & co.
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4-12-2008 @ 12:00AM
Matdredalia said...
Amen.
I have an undying respect for our soldiers. They are doing their job and they are out there because they believe in fighting for America's freedoms. They deserve our support and respect.
However, Bush & Co need to be out there on the front lines, and our troops need to be home where they belong.
4-12-2008 @ 1:28AM
aliquis said...
America's freedoms? To invade whatever country they feel for with the rest of the world looking away? mmkay ...
I can't see how war in Iraq got shit to do with american freedom?
My point was more like it's sad if regular soldiers die but ok if Bush and co does.