Third Annual Zeldathon Raising Funds for the National Children’s Advocacy Center

The 2010 charity Zelda marathon is revving its engine today, ready to get off to a flying start today (Monday, June 5th) at 6pm EST. The marathon will run for 72 hours, and will be raising money for the National Children’s Advocacy Center, a charity that is doing its bit to prevent child abuse.

The Zeldathon team will be playing all of the major console Zelda titles (The Legend of Zelda, Zelda II: The Adventure of Link, Link To The Past, Ocarina of Time, Majora’s Mask, Wind Waker, and Twilight Princess), back to back, for 72 hours. You can watch them do it live right here or indeed on the Justin.TV channel. Of course, you can donate to help them reach their goal here.

“Our goal is to raise over $1,000 for the NCAC,” said Pablo Penton, co-founder of Zeldathon. “We’ve met our goal the past two years and we have no doubt we can do it again with the support of all our viewers.”

The Zeldathon video game marathon began in August of 2008 when two FIU students, Pablo Penton and Sean Gonzalez, watched a video game marathon based around the Super Mario games.
“We were quite impressed with how much money they raised and the fun they had,” Penton said. “We figured we could do the same.”

I say good luck to them; it’s always nice to see gamers having a great time combined with a good cause. Here’s to another year’s successful fundraiser!