Awesome Games Done Quick (AGDQ) 2024 has concluded after a week-long non-stop speedrunning marathon. This year's charity raised more than $2.5 million for the Prevent Cancer Foundation. Other highlights included four world records broken and a dog named Peanut Butter beating the strange NES classic. gyromite.
This year's AGDQ, which took place in Pittsburgh, surpassed the million-dollar threshold early on the fifth day. Highlighted plays included a hitless career of Resident Evil 2 (2019), Super Mario 64 completely finished in an electric battery (in 23 minutes!), and a four-player race/one blindfolded controller of The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask.
World records broken at this year's event included speed racer Glitchcat7 finishing the incredibly difficult Super Mario world modification Luminescent in 41 minutes, 36 seconds. Talía finished the sky blue modification Collaboration with strawberry jam in 49 minutes, 13 seconds. Mechalink beat the Sega Saturn game virtual hydride in 27 minutes and 11 seconds. Finally, Bobbeigh conquered the spiritual successor to Castlevania. Bloody: Ritual of the night – in hard mode – in 30 minutes and 24 seconds.
Peanut Butter the Shiba Inu is now etched in the annals of GDQ history as the first canine-assisted drag race at one of the charity events. The well-trained dog helped his owner (JSR_) finish the 1985 NES game. gyromite in 26 minutes and 24 seconds. He responded to timely commands, pressing his paw on a foot-operated controller to move the game's red and green tubes up and down to carry Professor Hector to safety. (He was compensated with ham and cheese for his work.) You can watch Peanut Butter's memorable run below.
This year's AGDQ brings Games Done Quick's fundraising total, dating back 14 years, to more than $48.9 million. In addition to the Prevent Cancer Foundation, the exhibits have raised money for organizations such as Doctors without borders, Malala Background, Autism Research Organization and CAREFUL. The next marathon will be an all-women's sprint event called Frost Fatales, which will take place online from March 3-10 with proceeds benefiting National Women's Law Center.
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