Extra Life 24-hour charity gaming event at Galloping Ghost arcade

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Extra Life 24-hour charity gaming event at Galloping Ghost arcade

Hi guys. If anyone local to the Chicagoland area wants to come out and help us raise money for the Children's Miracle Network, we could sure use you on our team. More details below:

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Gaming website, Retroids (www.retroids.com) has formed the Retroids Team to raise money for a charitable cause. Extra Life is one of the biggest charity gaming events of the year. People donate money to sponsor the players that are playing video games for a 24-hour straight session. More information can be found at www.extra-life.org. Retroids is doing their 24-hour session at Galloping Ghost Arcade in Brookfield, IL! Please join them to help raise money for the Children's Miracle Network. The founders of Retroids.com (proper) are playing at the arcade for Children's Memorial Hospital in Chicago and trying to raise $1,000.

You can donate directly to the cause at our Extra Life page: http://bit.ly/nN1COt
Your donation is tax-deductible and 100 percent of your gift goes to help sick kids.

The collective participants that are joining up with the Retroids Team are trying to beat last year's goal and raise over $15,000!

Will you join us for this awesome cause? There are two ways you can do this:

1) Join up with as a team member of the Retroids Team at http://www.extra-life.org/team/retroids and ask people to sponsor you in the 24-hour gaming session. Any sponsors you get will help the cause!

2) If you can't participate yourself as a team member, no problem. But we'd still love if you could make a donation, even if it's just a few bucks, to any of the Retroids Team members. Go to: http://www.extra-life.org/team/retroids and donate to the team member of your choice.

When: 24-hours straight! The evening of October 14th from (Fri.) until the evening of October 15th (Sat). Friday start time: Approx 7:00pm CST
Where: Galloping Ghost Arcade
Address: 9415 Ogden Avenue, Brookfield IL
Cost: $15. That's for the full 24 hours -- FREE PLAY on all the games

Thanks!
 
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They're still working on it. Last I heard, they needed to film more takedown scenes with the actors, etc. They've been concentrating on getting more and more machines up and running, and expanding the arcade into an additional property.
 
Just as a reminder, our team is starting the Extra Life charity event this coming Friday, October 14th around 7pm. We're playing at the arcade for the full 24 hours until 7pm Saturday.

If you'd like to come out and join us, feel free! We could use some more participants to help raise money for Children's Miracle Network and Children's Memorial Hospital in Chicago.

Again, if you'd like to join our team, just go to www.extra-life.org/team/retroids. All the details are there. Click the blue button to join our team.

Alternatively, if you don't live in the area and/or can't make it out to the arcade, you can still join our team, play your own arcade or console games at home, stream it if you'd like, and get people to sponsor your play time. Donations are done on a simple form online, so you can play anywhere. That's the beauty of it, and it all helps raise money for sick kids.

Thanks for your consideration, and we hope you can join us in some way, shape or form.
 
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