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"What's my age again?"

So I actually took sometime to sit and look at a calendar today and I came to an astonishing revelation. In less than six months, I will be hitting the ripe age of twenty-one years. Twenty-one years on this planet already? Wow. Just wow.

I guess I am suppose to be happy and enjoy this upcoming event. It's the last big birthday until I hit forty or fifty, so I might as well have a great time while I'm at it. Maybe I am just a pessimist, but I really can't see anything positive about getting older. To me, it's just a constant reminder that I haven't really done anything with my life yet.

Saw a pretty big news story this morning. Amazon just announced plans to buy Audible for a cool $300 million dollars, which could turn into just petty cash for the company if the audiobook provider can keep producing as it has for the last 10 years.

Two interesting things come out of this purchase in my mind. First, will Audible keep ties with Apple after their contracts end later this year since Apple is easily the biggest name in digital distribution of media. Second, how will this agreement work into future revisions of Amazon's recently released Kindle? I'm not a big e-book reader and to be completely honest, don't know anyone who really is. However, it's hard to disagree with the fact that the Kindle is an impressive device with a super sexy screen. Add audiobook support and other multimedia features and you would definitely have a device which could make many ditch their laptops. It will really be interesting to see how this purchase pans out in the long run.

Quick Four48 update. We have 5 confirmed teams for this weekend's "Four48 vs The World" and a couple more maybes. If you are interested and can broadcast yourself playing RE4 starting this Saturday at noon CST, send me an e-mail at Cameron@CameronBanga.com

Also, our own Tom Platte is going to be interviewed by his hometown Kalamazoo Gazette (I believe that is the paper) because of his involvement in our charity. If you are in the K-Zoo (that is what you kids there call it, right?) area, be sure to keep an eye out for that.

Well, I am off to accounting. Best 75 minutes of my life, srsly. Well, maybe not.

We had a pretty big team meeting tonight and after an hour or so of working out details, we have a pretty big announcement to make. We hope you all are as pumped as we are haha.

To get down and dirty with some details, I would like to let you all know about our "Four48 vs The World: Round 1" weekend we have planned for this weekend.

We have decided to take on other teams worldwide in a speed run of Resident Evil 4 starting at Noon CST. Anyone can enter to take us on but you have to meet a couple of certain requirements first...

1.) You need to be able to broadcast your entire run online through Justin.TV or Mogulus.
2.) You need to be able to start at noon CST this Saturday.
3.) You need to be able to stand losing to us.
4.) Seriously though, we are going to kick your ass.

We are also limiting the number of competing teams to 8 or so, depending on the number of entrants we receive, so contact us about competing ASAP. To sign up, e-mail me at Cameron@CameronBanga.com and be prepared to show that you have webcasting abilities. You will also need a copy of RE4 on any console (PS2, Wii, or GCN). We will be taking teams more or less at first come, first serve to compete based on who can prove they will have the means to broadcast by Saturday. Also, any e-mails asking for help to set up a broadcast will be ignored. You either know how to set it up or you need to check out Justin.tv or Mogulus for information through their help pages.

Now you may be asking yourself, "Why should my friends and I work to beating you this Saturday?" One simple answer. The first place team in this event will win a brand spanking new copy of No More Heroes. Sweet enough right? You play RE4 with your friends this weekend in hopes of winning a new game for the Nintendo Wii. And if you don't come out on top, you are going to be helping to raise donations for Child's Play with us, like we do every week with all our proceeds going to benefit the charity. It's win-win.

But what if (not really what if, but more like when we) win, what will we do with the prize? We don't want a new copy of No More Heroes (well, we do, but for this weekend we will pass on it). If we win the speed run contest, we will be giving the copy of No More Heroes to all those of you watching us on Justin.TV.

We'll be holding a contest throughout the day which you can enter by sending us a picture of yourself (or your friends) with the words www.cameronbanga.com written somewhere on your or their bodies. Bonus points if it is a girl (well, you don't have a better chance of winning necesarily, but you will win bonus points with Adam). You can enter more than once, however each additional entry must be of a different person (aka, the second entry must be your friend, girlfriend, mom, brother, etc. Just not you again. Multiple pictures of yourself won't be accepted). Also, entries will only be accepted starting noon on Saturday until we beat the game, so don't start sending them to us yet. Entries can be sent to Cameron@CameronBanga.com

More details to follow in the upcoming days, so be sure to head back here often to see if we have any updates. If you and your friends are interested in taking us on, get that e-mail to me soon and make sure that you have the set up to play.

Hope you are all as pumped as we are. Send me any questions or comments.

"I'd skip those mistakes I made back when..."

Happy Monday everyone, I hope you are all having as great of a day as I am. Nothing better than some classes, radio, and tons of accounting home work to look forward to before I get a chance to go to bed later tonight. It could be worse I guess, I mean, I could be Dillon Carter (I jest Dillon, srsly).

I have some nihongo (Japanese) in a few minutes to go catch, so hopefully I can live through 50 minutes of that class. I have really been falling behind in that class so far this semester and need to serious up my study habits with it. I do have tutoring with Kaori tomorrow, so maybe she will kick my ass into gear with studying my vocab and Kanji.

After that, I have to go head to the VU Police Department to see if I can appeal a parking ticket I got yesterday. If anything (among a multitude of things) really ruined my day yesterday, it was this. 5 minutes in a place I am not suppose to park in order to check my bank balance to make sure I don't overdraw and I get a $60 ticket to boot. Oh life, thou art such a fair yet cruel mistress. Wish me luck in getting this thing appealed, but I am not too optimistic.

Tried testing the iTunes rental service last night, but our internet connection in my dorm is so slow that it took about 3 hours to get the file downloaded. Apple states that you can begin watching the movie a minute or so after you click rent and I take their word with that fact. That is, if you have an internet connection which is somewhat modern; definitely something I am not really sure I have in my dorm. Speaking of campus tech frustrations, I still can't get my iPod Touch's mail client to connect to my school e-mail or to my GMail. Maybe one day I can live in a world where 1st class institutions have manageable tech solutions.

GMan was gracious enough to donate us a VC game last night. Props to you my man, mad props. I guess Matt decided on Star Fox 64 and I can't blame him, that game is definitely a masterpiece. I heard through the grape vine that Biiaru has promised a game this week as well and I may have to push for 1080 Snowboarding which just hit the VC this morning. I was watching the Winter X-Games on the TV in the Union last night, and I have an extreme sports itch.

I'll have more Four48 info about next weekend posted later this week, so check back often. We're still debating over a game or two, but I can guarantee that whatever we choose will be definitely worth the watch.

Peace up, A town down.

Welcome back everyone to week three in our gaming marathon series. This week, we take on the N64 RPG often considered to be one of the big cult hits from the era, Paper Mario.
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09:52 AM Saturday - Getting ready to kick-off in under 10 minutes. Should be a hoot.

10:48 AM Saturday - We're early into the game and enjoying the sweet as hell art style. We're also reading e-mails, so be sure to send them to Cameron@CameronBanga.com

02:55 PM Saturday - So far, so great. Tons of people in the room and we are really enjoying ourselves. Mad props to Joystiq and GoNintendo for covering our story AGAIN this week. It is crazy to see the sites we all read daily cover us. We also got our story on Digg and are getting some good numbers there. If you haven't seen the story, feel free to check it out and digg us here.

??:?? AM Sunday - Hey everyone, sorry for the lack of blog updates. I went out with my girlfriend and her family to Dave and Busters in Chicago for her older brother's birthday (If you have been there, can you blame me? It's like an adult Chuck E Cheese!) and I forgot to teach everyone how to update the blog. Thanks for the donations and to everyone who checked us out! We appreciated it mucho. We'll have another post tomorrow or so with info about next week and a recap of this week.

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"Would you take a walk with me?"

Only about 12 hours until we kick off our third weekend of marathon gaming. Just wanted to make a couple quick updates and announcements before we kick-off our quest to beat that game in 17 hours starting at 10AM CST tomorrow.

We finalized our second money transfer to Child's Play today after some money finally cleared through the systems. Today's donations? $364.15! Thanks for the amazing numbers, you guys just continue to amaze us. This brings our yearly total now to $1569.33.

We also discussed some new plans for donations at our last team meeting. While we do still feel that we need to upgrade our equipment to make the show better, we will not be taking any money from donations. We're looking into ways to finance upgrades, but we have decided that donations will not be our key to that like we originally considered.

I got a chance to talk with Jake at Infendo for a really sweet interview, which you can find here. I definitely suggest you check it out. We will also be interviewed on a podcast next week and featured in a magazine dedicated to comic books and games in February. All these opportunities are real sweet and I will be sure to post links as more becomes available.

Also wanted to use this post to make a real big announcement! We have decided to start looking for people to join our official Four48 Street Team. If you are interested in spreading the word about the site and our game marathons, check out this post here over at the Four48 Forums.

Well, I am out to catch a concert (Asteria). Before hitting the hay for a big day tomorrow. Hope to see you all early at www.justin.tv/cbanga. We'll be on about 10AM CST. If you miss me too much, send some e-mails tonight to Cameron@CameronBanga.com so we have some reading material early tomorrow.

UPDATE: Just got an e-mail from one of our good friends, Biiaru. If you don't know him, he is the guy that donated Paper Mario to us via Virtual Console which we will be playing tomorrow. He has let us know that if we beat 16 hours tomorrow, he will be donating ANOTHER VC game to us. I think we may have to up the ante and prepare to beat our 17 hours which we originally calculated.

He also wanted me to share that he has formed an IRC chatroom for the day tomorrow and that he will be in there starting at 9AM CST for an extended pre-game before we kick off at 10 AM CST. I definitely suggest that you join him in the chat. Here is the info...

IRC Server - irc.systemnet.info channel - #448
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Just got this a couple minutes ago, what a sweet fan video. This will definitely stick in my mind for a while as one of the greatest fan pieces I have received.



Keep on rolling baby.

PS, we'll see you all Saturday, bright and early (10AM CST). Hope you're as pumped as I am.

"I might be here with you..."

Happy Wednesday my friends out there in internet land! I'm in the Christopher Center library right now making this post with about 28 minutes left to go until class (Japanese Literature, fun fun fun!), so I may have to make this a little short. Apologies in advance.

To get some updates for everyone about Four48, we had our 2nd official organization meeting last night. The meeting was so productive, it blew my mind. I really can't stress enough how focused the group of guys (and gal) we have working on this project are. We are definitely devoted to bringing you all great free internet content to the best of our abilities as long as this whole thing works out. I know you all often read my posts or talk to me through e-mails, hell this is even cameronbanga.com. But, I gotta stress that their are lots of people here working behind the scenes that you don't know who are all working their asses off to try to get this whole thing to work. Mad props to them.

With regards to next week, I am going to make this official (the cat has been out of the bag on the forums and such for a while), that we will be undertaking Paper Mario for the N64 this weekend by means of the Virtual Console and a very generous gift by Biiaru. I've never actually played the game myself, so I may be more pumped than anyone to get at this game, especially since I LOVED The Thousand Year Door (well except for the fetch-quest filled last couple hours).

Since we are taking up such a massive RPG, you may ask how long this quest will take us. We have two answers to that...First, we have no real idea as to how long it should take. Second, we are estimating around 20 hours. Yeah, that's a freaking long time.

Because of this game's length, we plan on starting early (and this start time will most likely stay consistent as our weekly start time) at 10AM CST this Saturday. Yeah, it is mega early. However, we feel like we can reach our broadest audience AND give more people the chance to watch more of us during the day by going with this time.

The Street Team idea really took off in the forums, so if you haven't hit up that topic I suggest you check it out. We're definitely interested in going forward with this and I hope to have some really exciting information for everyone in the next couple days.

We have seen some interest in a true podcast, which we would also look into releasing weekly through iTunes. Nothing is finalize with this and we are kinda trying to test the waters with this idea right now. If you are interested in a podcast, please drop me an e-mail at Cameron@CameronBanga.com and let me know what you think and what you would like to see. We would definitely like to find out if interest is there before we go full fledged with a podcast series.

I got some Google Reader invites and that was sweet as muffins. If you e-mailed me about it, I added you (or tried to at least, I am new to the process). If anyone else uses Google Reader, drop me a line so we can become RSS BFF4Ls.

Well, I am off to Japanese Lit. Wish me luck with all this ancient poetry.

"When I get a little scared. When I get a little scared. When I get a little...run run run."

Just wanted to post a couple quick musings tonight before I hit the hay. It's getting a little late (2:13AM to be exact), so I am going to try to type as quick as possible. If this is incoherent, I apologize in advance.

I really need to get over this late night kick, I am really starting to worry about my sleep patterns haha. Oh well, I am sure my body will correct itself to what it needs in the long run, right?

For you Four48 fans, we will be having a team meeting tomorrow and we should have more information for you guys come Wednesday or so. We're looking to play Paper Mario this weekend, so let us know what you think about that title. I've never actually played the game, so I am pretty pumped. Also, our final totals aren't in from last weekend, because we are waiting for some stuff to clear money wise. However, we were over $300 for the night on Saturday, so we were fairly happy. Thanks again to all who donated and we can't wait to see you again this Saturday.

Got a chance to sit down with a reporter from the Post-Tribune tonight with Matt, Will, Chris, and Mike. I guess she is putting together a story on us which should be in the paper possibly this week? We'll keep you all updated when we find out more.

Got to play some Mario Kart 64 last night at a party over at my friend Eric's house. I stompped ass at Battle Mode but came in 3rd my one race of the night when we played Wario Stadium. I couldn't preform the wall jump glitch when others could. Am I a newb or what haha?

Matt downloaded Sin & Punishment off the VC today, which pumped me up beyond belief. I have been looking to play this game for about 7 years and wanted to import it badly back into the day. It's hard as hell and definitely VERY Japanese, but it is super sweet. I definitely suggest you check it out and I may get a full review on it up later this week.

I made a quick little poll on the forum to see if anyone would be interested in joining a Four48 street team. If you are interested and are a proponent of what we do, post in the topic and send me an e-mail to Cameron@CameronBanga.com.

Saw some cool links while on Google Reader today. If you use that RSS feed catcher like I do, please do me a favor and send me an e-mail so we can talk and set ourselves up as friends to check out each others shared stories, I love seeing what other people are checking out. Here are some of my favorites from today.

Pizza Hut is going to start taking orders from text messages. chz plz k thnks bai.

Landon Donovan is the US Soccer all-time leading scorer. Congrats Landon, keep on being the US Soccer badass you are. This is an amazing feat for the guy considering the fact that he is only 25 and arguably not even in his prime.

More changes coming to Facebook's news feed soon. Facebook is a really great company to watch if you love tech, since they have such an influence on the social networking market. Interesting to see how people respond to this.

And finally, I leave you with a song I just took a listen to on thesixtyone. I was originally going to embed Tegan and Sara, hence the title of this post. However, this came up on random and I couldn't not play it. Scottish rap, specifically a tribute to Tupac. Amazing stuff right here.
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EDIT: 06:00ish AM Sunday - At sometime around 6AM, we beat Twilight Princess. I'm not sure because I passed out and woke up with little clue as to where I even was. Thanks again to the over 12,000 people who took time out of their night to watch us. With your help, we received over $300 in donations! I'll post another blog update tomorrow or late tonight, but for now, I sleep. Peace out everyone.


Hey everyone, welcome to our second "episode" of our series devoted to marathon gaming for Child's Play. Tonight, we're taking on the monster adventure we didn't make it to last week; The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess.
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So this weekend we decided to finish what we started and get through Twilight Princess. This will be our first of what will turn into a weekly gaming fest, where we attempt to beat through a game a weekend while playing for charity. We will continue to take donations through PayPal, as we did last week, with your donations going to support Child's Play. You can click on this link here to donate to us via PayPal.

Some people asked for Matt's Wii Friend Code, here you go.
Wii Friend Code: 6124 8463 1335 0837
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So, we have a different kind of challenge this week. Our team member, Chris Vavra, couldn't join us this week, but in his absense he decided to throw a challenge our way. This week, he beat Twilight Princess on a speed run in 11 hours 26 minutes. He said that if we beat his time, he'll donate $40 to our fund. Matt Green is up for the challenge and he definitely thinks he'll be bringing us $40 by the end of the night.

As always, send us your e-mails to Cameron@CameronBanga.com. We'll be reading your questions and comments all night live on air, just like last week.

Just some quick notes about this site, if you haven't been around all week, we now have added forums for you to check out and join the Four48 community. We also added a fan art page and a Hall of Fame devoted to donors. You can check out all the links in the navigation bar to your right.

We'll also be live-blogging, so if you tune in late, be sure to just check below for updates so that you can catch up with all we have been up to.

03:51 PM Saturday - Starting to set everything up and get ready. Matt's in the mindset to beat TP in 11 hours, and I am believing in him. We'll see everyone in about an hour, hope you are all pumped.

06:00 PM Saturday - Just ordered pizza. We're getting ready for the long-haul. Mike from the Post-Tribune was here already to take some pictures, that was pretty sweet. Thanks again for the GoNintendo post and we have been posted on Digg. Looks like it is shaping up to be a great night.

08:21 PM Saturday - Thanks for all the great e-mails guys! Donations are picking up and we are at about $90 which is really tight! Keep sending in your e-mails, suggestions, etc. Also, be sure to register and check out our forums!

11:27 PM Saturday - Matt is plugging away and we are hoping the rest of the game will speed up. Close to on pace now, maybe a little behind. Here are some pictures sent so far tonight.





01:28 AM Sunday - Sleep is starting to overcome some in the room, but we are trying our best to keep on rocking in the free world. Matt is almost done with the snow temple. He is a piemp.



02:39 AM Sunday - Somethings going on, can I smell yo dick? PS look at this!


06:00ish AM Sunday - At sometime around 6AM, we beat Twilight Princess. I'm not sure because I passed out and woke up with little clue as to where I even was. Thanks again to the over 12,000 people who took time out of their night to watch us. With your help, we received over $300 in donations! I'll post another blog update tomorrow or late tonight, but for now, I sleep. Peace out everyone.

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Haha, finally I get a little chance to sit down and write for a while. I am really glad I got a chance to do this today, since writing really gives me an opportunity to just chill and spew forth all the crazy stuff that runs through my head in one day. If you are a writer in any sense of the word, you definitely know what I mean.

Added some new pages to the site today, I hope you enjoy. We definitely don't have the most technically advanced web page on the internets, but I think we do really well with what we have. It definitely comes at the right price, since I really don't pay anything to keep all this up and running and cheap is definitely the way to roll when in college. If you check out to your right on our tidy little navigation bar, you will see that I added a "Hall of Fame" to the site. I'll try to keep this updated weekly and it will contain the names of everyone who thought enough of us to donate some money to our cause. Take a look at this list and say a little thanks to these people even though they will never hear it, they really deserve it.

I also added some forums to the site. I figure since you will only have blog posts and our weekly game-a-thon to check out as new content each week, you deserved something else to give you great reason to come back daily. I definitely encourage you all to register and make some posts, because we know that we have a pretty solid community thus far and it would be cool if you could all meet each other and fall in love. Yeah, I said fall in love haha.

Now onto some more personal stuff. I got to talk to my friend Melissa today for a while and that was pretty sweet. I got to talk to Jason and Bud as well, so it was a pretty good day with regards to talking to people. I doubt Aviral will ever read this, but if you do bro, you definitely need to give me a call because I am definitely wondering what is going on in your life. Spring break seems so far away, which is sad because that may be the next time I get a chance to see all those people in person.

Never got a chance to post some opinions on Macworld, so I figure now is as good of a time as ever to make a post. The "Steve-note" has come and gone and I got to admit, it didn't really throw out any surprising announcements but as a whole it was a fairly good showing. The Macbook Air may just be the most amazingly engineered device I have ever seen. I really need to get up to the Apple Store in Chicago after it arrives in a few weeks to just take a look at that thing and drop my jaw in amazement. A couple people I have talked to don't seem amazing, but I don't think they realize how amazing a break through that computer is in the "mini-laptop" genre of devices which the market has been craving.

I did drop the $20 for the January iPod Touch firmware update, which I don't really agree with, but found the need for anyways. Mail, Notes, and Google Maps made it worth it, since I am getting three extremely solid apps which I will use daily plus weather and stocks. A lot of people around the message board world found lots to complain about with the update and I have a hard time disagreeing with them. It does seem like a poor choice to make the consumer pay $20 for apps which should have been included in the device in the first place, but I also made the decision to buy the device before it had those apps knowing full well that I wouldn't be getting them at the $300 price tag.

I thought the most surprising event that took place during the event was the announcement of movie rentals through iTunes. Sure, we all knew it was coming forever ago. But, I don't know many people who thought that the service would have the amount of videos available or that the whole process would be as simple as it appears to be. I definitely may have to check this thing out this weekend to see how it works first hand (Megan Lee, I know you never saw Jackass: The Movie. Are you game to sit around my computer screen and watch it with me haha?).

Oh yeah, I almost forgot! I am super pumped about tomorrow afternoon! Tom and I are going to head to the local post office and set up a PO Box for our marathon gaming stuff. It's my first time setting up a PO Box and for some reason I am overly excited. It is like a rite of passage or something, I really can't explain it haha. Anyways, if you are one of the many people who e-mailed us about donating your old games (or even a person or two who was willing to donate a console?!), we will soon have a way for you to do so. We're hoping to be able to play through the games you donate on our weekly show to help expand our library because after a couple weeks, we would most likely be back to Ocarina of Time again. We will then take the games you donate and then resell them (most likely through eBay or a local resale shop) and then donate those proceeds to Child's Play as well. So if you don't have the PayPal account or hard cash to donate, you will always be able to send us your old games. We'll also be hoping that you send us some actual letters through the mail as well, that would be really cool and old fashion. We're all about old school here haha.

Well, I am off to shower and get ready for bed maybe? Got some Econ tomorrow morning which should me a mega sweet time. I'm not quite what the topic for tomorrow's class will be, but I can assure that I will find a way to dread it. It can't be that bad though, it only lasts 50 minutes. That won't kill me, right?

PS, here is a little bedtime treat for you. I listened to this while I was at the radio station today and while I am sure many of you have heard it before, it is still very kickass. I hope you enjoy some Daft Punk before bed, like I am going to do right now.

Hey everyone, here is a late night update to give you guys the low down as to what is going on with myself and my late night gaming team. Got some rather big news which I hope makes you all as excited as it makes me and my party posse.

First things first, I just got the a final total on the money we had donated last weekend and the cash has been transfered to Child's Play.

We ended up with $1260.18 total, which was pretty darn good for about 24 hours of taking donations. We subtracted $55 for the three meals we bought over the weekend which included 5 or 6 pizzas, a dozen or so donuts, and a half gallon of Nesquick. Yeah, that drink is amazing. After some calculus level mathematics, we have a donation total in the amount of $1205.18. Over the weekend, we had some people doubt if we were going to actually donate the money. Being a veteran of the internets, I am fond of the age old principle of "pics of it didn't happen." I hope this silences any critics.



I think I speak for our entire "448" team when I say that it may have been the proudest day in any of our lives when I was able to click the "accept transaction" button on PayPal for that money transfer. I am pretty sure we are all in shock over that number and we really have to thank you all for your generosity. It could never happened without each of you and it really is just goes to show how far the gaming community will go to be a real stand-up, first-class segment of society.

Now, moving onto the future of the "4in48" project/team/website/etc. Myself and the rest of the team from this weekend (Matt, Tom, "Tina" [haha], Dillon, Will, Adam, Chris, Dean, Mike, and Mike) all got a chance to sit down and have some discussions tonight. We were able to come up with a pretty concrete plan and I hope you all enjoy what we have in store.

We have decided to continue with the "448" project immediately, kicking off with another life event this Saturday, again at 5PM CST. Because 48 hour sessions take a lot of many power and definitely kill your body (just ask us, we're professionals at it now), we have decided to have weekly live shows where we focus on playing through one game. The structure will be exactly the same. You'll have a live web feed of us playing a game, we'll be taking and reading e-mails and chat rooms, we'll be working to beat the game as quick as possible, and we will still be taking donations for Child's Play.

The only slight differences you will see are that we will only be playing one game a week, so the show can last anywhere from 8 to 20 or so hours a week. We still have plans for super long 48 hour gaming marathons in the future, but we will be holding them at special times of the year. Basically, you will be sure to have a chance to watch us every weekend for sure (God willing) and a select couple of weekends out of the year, you will get to watch it even more.

We were really excited about the response we got for working through Child's Play and we have decided to continue giving them donations as we work throughout the year. For donations from here on out, we will donate all money we receive at some sort of variable rate (we're not sure exactly what right now) which should stay somewhere around 75% for Child's Play, 25% for us. We really don't want to keep 25% if possible and are hoping to be able to give more to Child's Play many weeks during the year. However, we do realize that if we want to continue with this, we will have expenses. We would like to upgrade ourselves to better equipment (new webcam/better television/more powerful software/etc) to improve the quality of our show and the only way we can do this is through keeping a small portion of donations. We just want to stress that charity is our #1 goal and that if we do keep some money, it will go toward improving our stuff to make a better show in order to attract more viewers and more money for our ultimately more important cause.

That being said, we will be working hard to prepare a great gamefest for this upcoming weekend. This week, we're going to continue our quest through Hyrule and play through The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Pricess, so we hope you all tune in this Saturday at 5PM CST (and be sure to tell your friends as well). We're super excited and we hope you are too.

Also some quick other notes about the future. These really are all just short notes to tie up loose ends.

• + We are still looking for sweet fan art and pictures of you or your friends with www.cameronbanga.com written somewhere on your body. We're just arrogant pricks like that I guess haha. If you have something you want to send us, be sure to get it to us at Cameron@CameronBanga.com. We're going to get a page devoted to this kind of stuff real soon, since we had a lot of it come through our hands last weekend.
• + We are also looking to add prominent gaming figures as guests to the show to sit down and have phone conversations with us while we game and you watch. If you have a person in the business that you would like to see us talk to (we'll be sure to ask the questions you e-mail us, because that's how we roll), please send us an e-mail or leave a comment to this post with who that person is and we will work to get those people on. If you personally know someone who is fairly well known in the "biz" (take maybe Kevin Rose or Morgan Webb for example haha) or if you are a prominent figure yourself (Heck, you don't even have to be in the gaming business. It would be sweet to get bands, etc on the show as well) and you would like to be a phone guest for us, please feel free to e-mail us at Cameron@CameronBanga.com.
  
• + We're still taking game suggestions for future show episodes. We know you want to see Metroid and Mario, and are going to work on those. However, they may be saved for our "mega-marathons." We would also maybe be interested in taking game donations from you guys if you were interested in sending us your old games so we could play them on the show. We had a couple people mention this in e-mails since they didn't really have money to donate and we are definitely interested, we would just need to find out exactly how that would work. So I guess if you are really interested in sending us your old games so we can play through them (our collection is decent, but we definitely don't have enough to last forever), send me an e-mail and we will talk about how to get this done. It would also be sweet, because we could sell off your old games through a reseller or on eBay and also donate any profit we make off those to Child's Play as well.
  
• + We are leaving toward just calling us the "448" team and the show "www.cameronbanga.com presents the 448 show. However, if you have a suggestion for a better name, please contact us ASAP. We just don't have that kind of creative power haha.
• + I'll post more things here as they come up, but if you have any other questions, comments, or suggestions, please by all means feel free to contact us at Cameron@CameronBanga.com and we'll get back to you ASAP. Well, we'll try our best at least haha.
• + PS, we may be a little high on ourselves or maybe dreaming a little too much, but we have set a goal of $10,000 in donations to Child's Play by the end of the year. Thanks for your help so far and we definitely know we can do it with your help.

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Just wanted to make a quick post about how pumped I am for Macworld. If I get the time tonight, I hope to write some reactions to the event.

Also, wanted to tease at a little announcement from us as well. Just wanted to confirm to everyone that we WILL be doing something similar to what we did last weekend again in the very near future, maybe even as soon as this weekend.

The 448 crew is meeting tonight and I will be making some proposals to them, and we will maybe start to hammer out something. Expect full details as early as tomorrow or Thursday, so check back frequently.

And if we do partake in a similar quest again, we're going to need game suggestions. If you have a game you would like to see us play, leave a comment to this post or e-mail the title to Cameron@CameronBanga.com.

05:21 PM Sunday - 48 hours ago, myself and some friends sat down in my room with one simple task in mind. To play 3D The Legend of Zelda games for 48 hours and hopefully beat them all. I now find myself typing at a computer two days later, with maybe 6-7 hours of "nap time" over the last 2 days, writing what may be our last little blog update for this adventure.

I was uncertain of many things before we started, that's for sure. I wasn't sure we would beat all 4 (that turned out to be the case, sadly), I worked for hours setting up a webcam I didn't think anyone would watch (ended up being wrong on that one), and I'll be honest, I never even figured we would get through the 48 hours without just all quitting and forgetting about the whole dumb idea.

So we may have been an "epic failure." Some called us homosexuals, liars, or even racial slurs. We probably deserve a great deal of criticism, hell we never even started Twilight Princess or got past the final dungeon boss in Majora's Mask (in our defense, it did freeze 4 times, which was our downfall along with a lack of experience in the game and massive amounts of fatigue).

However, no matter how you feel about us after this whole thing comes to a close, one thing is certain. Our little cursed legend of our own got to be a great example of what the great gaming community can actually do if they band together and believe in something. I'm still drowning in e-mails of support from all over the world (on Saturday alone, we had visitors from over 100 COUNTRIES!). Some messages were short, usually a word or two of praise and maybe a joke. Other e-mails were long and detailed, explaining how we had somehow managed to make someone's day (I still don't see how, we just played games). But this weekend wasn't about us, the e-mails, or even the sweet limericks. Instead, it was about how a love for something as simple as a couple of video games can pull together the masses and raise over $1150 to help a bunch of kids through a kickass charity such as Child's Play.

To all of you, thanks again, even though I could never thank you enough. Whether you tuned in for 5 minutes or e-mailed us throughout the entire thing and lost sleep along side us, we hope you enjoyed every single second of it, just like we did.

To wrap stuff up, once some of the money clears through online check processes, I will get the stuff to Child's Play. I'll make a blog post once we get all that stuff finalized, in case you guys want to know when they actually get the money and what the final actual total is.

Thanks again for all the fan art/comics/pictures of you with cameronbanga.com written on yourself. If you sent us a piece of work, do me a favor and send it again next week so I can find a copy of it in the mass of e-mails we have. I want to keep the collection haha. If you want to make more art or pictures with writing on yourself, go ahead and send it in. We would love to see it and possibly post it on the site. If you had a more personal e-mail you wanted me to answer (anything more than good luck or a question Zelda related), feel free to send it again to Cameron@CameronBanga.com now that we are done with the weekend and I will have a chance to sit down and look at them.

And we also had a lot of interest from people who want to see us do this again. We are definitely interested, but give us a day or so to sleep and contemplate in the correct frame of mind. Bookmark us or add www.cameronbanga.com to and RSS reader and check back in a week or so when you can find more information.

If this last blog post sucks or is incoherent, I apologize. I am sure you will all understand haha. To Tom, Dillon, Natalie, Will, Sac, Dean, Chris, Adam, Mike, Jared (with his group of friends, sorry I didn't catch all your names haha), and the multitude of other people who I am sure were there for this and I am forgetting about. Thanks for being a part of this with me, it is definitely one weekend I won't be forgetting anytime in the near future. - CB

Alas, it has begun. Tom, Dillon, Matt, Adam, myself, and possibly several others are currently in the process of attempting to beat through Ocarina of Time, Majora's Mask, Wind Waker, and Twilight Princess consecutively in a 48 hour period of time. We will be starting at 5PM CST Friday and ending (hopefully) by 5PM CST on Sunday.

Here you will be able to find our webcam feed below. We encourage you to sit back and enjoy, if it is at all possible to enjoy watching people you don't know beat video games. Just look at it as if you are watching history in the making. We will also be posting "live blog" updates below, so if you are joining us late into the 48 hour mega adventure, I advise that you read the updates below to get an idea as to what is going on.

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Or try this feed.

I hope you all enjoy as you watch us create our own little legend. If you have questions, comments, or suggestions, please feel free to e-mail me at Cameron@CameronBanga.com.

Some people had mentioned before that they would love to send us a few bucks for pizza. If you are still interested, it would be great. Anything would help I guess, we are hungry college kids. Any left over cash will go toward sex, drugs, and rock and roll. You know, typical college stuff.

Click here to donate to our pizza/Child's Play fund via PayPal.

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LIVE BLOG TEXT UPDATES:

4:05 PM Friday - Less than an hour till game time. I have been watching some OoT speed runs in prep for the last hour or so. I will be leading off the whole thing with Ocarina of Time, so wish me luck. I'm definitely going to need to be on my game.

4:55 PM Friday - Starting in about 5 minutes. Excitement is building.

6:35 PM Friday - 2 Temples down in OoT. Webcast is somewhat better. I hope you guys enjoy.

7:45 PM Friday - In the Forest Temple, hopes are high. Energy is pretty good so far.

8:32 PM Friday - Working to be better at life. Currently working to get to the Fire Temple. Right now, we're on pace.

9:53 PM Friday - We're still early into the whole thing, but the support we have received has been pushing us through! We have had about 100 people watching constantly which is cool and we even got our first shoe on head pic! Thanks Ali!!


10:47 PM Friday - About to enter the Shadow Temple. Guess we made somethingawful? Hope it makes us famous. Maybe I'll get to meet Morgan Webb and Michael Jordan?

11:40 PM Friday - Almost to Spirit Temple. Ocarina in 9 hours? Looking like it. PS Thanks for the pics of girls with shoes... They are sweet haha.

11:48 PM Friday - We just got dugg. Dear God, save us please. Will we make it? I sure as hell hope so now.

12:35 PM Saturday - Trying to survive. Hope you guys enjoy all of this.

01:37 AM Saturday - Done with Ocarina and having a blast! Keep sending e-mails to Cameron@CameronBanga.com. We have a chance you guys! Hope you all believe in us!

02:11 AM Saturday - Having a blast, playing Majora. Keep sending some e-mails and spreading the love, your mail is definitely pushing us through lack of sleep. We love you all.

02:54 AM Saturday - WE JUST FROZE!! Luckily we saved pretty soon ago. Wish us luck, we need it.

03:52 AM Saturday - Here are some pictures! Keep sending them in, we love it!









04:44 AM Saturday - Dead as all hell right now, but we are pushing through. We have a good amount of energy and have 36 hours to go. Keep sending the e-mails to Cameron@CameronBanga.com. We have gotten about 1000 right now and we love to read them haha. Here are some more pictures.


07:36 AM Saturday - We're alive and kicking, halfway through Majora's Mask. Just found out we're going to be on the radio in 15 minutes in Marquette, Michigan on 101.9. Pimpjuice.

08:50 AM Saturday - Majora's Mask, why are you so stupid? Still on pace, but frustration is setting in.

10:29 AM Saturday - Chugging along. We added a link so you can donate to our pizza fund if you feel inclined haha. We're still accepting fan pictures/art and will post more later this afternoon.

11:07 AM Saturday - Currently having technical difficulties likely do to extensive traffic from Joystiq and other sites. We will hopefully have the webcast streaming correctly as soon as possible. Stay tuned, loyal viewers, stay tuned.

12:57 PM Saturday - Hopes are high as hell! We have fallen back of our target time slightly, but we are determined to give our best effort to you guys. Our pizza donations went exceptionally well. We have money to pay for the pizza tonight AND some. Thanks to a great suggestion from Sam Switzer, we have decided to take our money we make from donations, buy ourselves a pizza to celebrate, and then donate the rest to charity (most likely going to be Penny-Arcade's Child's Play). More info coming, so if you like the cause, I guess we don't feel so bad by asking you to donate now.

02:00 PM Saturday - Oh noes, we just got rick rolled again. PS, we added a new chat to our list of links below. Check it out.

02:18 PM Saturday - stories@g4tv.com - There is the G4 e-mail addy. If you guys think we are that special, please feel free to drop them a line.

03:16 PM Saturday - Matt Green watched 2girls1cup earlier, here is his reaction.

04:34 PM Saturday - Majora's Mask is wooping our ass, but we are working our sleep-deprived asses off. The e-mails are really keeping our spirits high, so keep sending. Here are some more pictures.





06:31 PM Saturday - When the hell will Majora's Mask end? PS, over 600 in donations. We may make our goal of $750 for Child's Play.

08:20 PM Saturday - Life is amazing, but fuck Majora. Here are some more pics. Keep sending them, we love em.






10:08 PM Saturday - We have had multiple Majora freezings with the ROM on the Wii, but we are trying to still beat it. Feed just went down, but we are back on justin.tv again.

11:40 PM Saturday - 17 hours left and we're f'ing down bros. Majora kept freezing and our ace player passed out after almost getting to the end of the final dungeon and having it freeze 3 times, needing to restart the whole dungeon. He had been playing for like 16 straight hours and up for 48. Sleep took him over, we'll miss you will, thanks for your service. After a lack of weapons and fatigue, I was done and we decided it was best to move on to Wind Waker. Why the hell did we have these damn freezing problems?

We're going to push on and try to get WW done by early morning. We want to get TP in as well and then get back to the end of Majora. This blows guys, but thanks for the support. Thanks for the donations thus far, we made about 800 bucks so far. We are still hoping for the $1000 mark, but we definitely know we need to put on a show to deserve it.

Thanks for the support so far everyone. Let's see how this thing ends up.

05:34 AM Sunday - We're plugging along at Wind Waker. We may not make 5PM, but we're having a blast. Thanks for the support to the chat crew, you guys know who you are. PS, cameronbanga.ytmnd.com.










06:18 AM Sunday - Adam was awesome enough to make a comic for us. Here it is.


01:57 PM Sunday - If this is incoherent, I apologize. I have gotten about 6 hours of on and off sleep MAYBE since Friday morning. It looks pretty clear now that we won't make our goal. We are going to keep playing and see how close we can get to accomplishing just the defeat of all 4 games in general, however we do have class tomorrow and some sleep would be nice maybe? We're going to work our hardest because we owe it to you guys. Some of you just checking in may not be aware, but you all helped raise $1000 dollars for Child's Play through donations to us in the last 24 hours. Seriously guys? Zelda, sleep deprivation, Tina, and Rick Rolls aside, I really hope you all pat yourselves on the back and realize how amazing that number seriously is. I mean, I am still in awe to the face that what started as a link for donations in hope to make $20 for free pizza has turned into over $1000 going to, in our opinion, the best charity on the planet. Thanks a lot guys and I hope you all enjoy the home stretch. As always, keep the e-mails to Cameron@CameronBanga.com flowing. We could use to letters as inspiration to keep going haha. Think of them as our caffeine.

3:56 PM Sunday - At the boss for the final dungeon of Majora. Trying to beat this game by 5, that will be the new goal. Donations are still trinkling in, we are now at $1100. What an amazing number guys, thanks for all the help! This money will be going to Child's Play, and we are really pumped that we have been able to raise such a large amount so far. If you have been watching for a while, you have most likely heard a piece of literature work or two by Kohan. He was nice enough to send me an e-mail with the all works, here they are.

Limerick #1

It seems it's time to write you a letter
I don't know if for worse or for better
It must be so cool
To hear "Man, you rule"
And if the chick's not taken, man, go out and get her.

Limerick #2 (Directed toward Dillon)

It's nice to be here on such an occasion
And watch you rock on your Zelda invasion
Keep reading our mail
Play 'till you're stale
It'd be nicer if people didn't think you were asian

Limerick #3 (Directed toward Dillon)

A jew, an asian, an arab, a dude
Boy these people sure are crude
You can tell by your skin
The places you've been
Guess we'll be needing you nude

Limerick #4

Into the first real dungeon he goes
Will he beat it in time, who knows?
He'll finish the crab
With a dramatic stab
But if he dies, then hell, that blows

Limerick #5

A dangerous mountain bursting with fire
A great red dragon aperch on its spire
Seconds wasted
Brimstone tasted
If Link isn't quick, things'll get dire

Sonnet #1

It's been requested I write a sonnet
By the people in the channel
I will have to think much on it
Before it goes to the panel
These poems come with a reputation
With luck, I might inspire
I'll get these guys to make a donation
I'll write 'til I perspire
The grappling hook has been acquired
It will lead you on your way
Keep going even though you're tired
I guarantee we'll pay
Mash some buttons, kill some bad guys
A greater man you shall arise

Limerick #6 (After Matt told me to stop writing poems)

I once was having fun
Writing poems by the ton
Though Matt is cool
He then was cruel
You know, that really stung

Limerick #7 (Just recently, when I woke up)

I have slept for a good ten hours
Now it seems you're back at the tower
I know the task
But I must ask
Have any of you taken a shower?

Limerick #8

It's pretty tough to fight such a blade
Without a nice fairy to come to your aid
Scythes are a pain
But you'll be his bane
There's no need to be afraid

05:21 PM Sunday - 48 hours ago, myself and some friends sat down in my room with one simple task in mind. To play 3D The Legend of Zelda games for 48 hours and hopefully beat them all. I now find myself typing at a computer two days later, with maybe 6-7 hours of "nap time" over the last 2 days, writing what may be our last little blog update for this adventure.

I was uncertain of many things before we started, that's for sure. I wasn't sure we would beat all 4 (that turned out to be the case, sadly), I worked for hours setting up a webcam I didn't think anyone would watch (ended up being wrong on that one), and I'll be honest, I never even figured we would get through the 48 hours without just all quitting and forgetting about the whole dumb idea.

So we may have been an "epic failure." Some called us homosexuals, liars, or even racial slurs. We probably deserve a great deal of criticism, hell we never even started Twilight Princess or got past the final dungeon boss in Majora's Mask (in our defense, it did freeze 4 times, which was our downfall along with a lack of experience in the game and massive amounts of fatigue).

However, no matter how you feel about us after this whole thing comes to a close, one thing is certain. Our little cursed legend of our own got to be a great example of what the great gaming community can actually do if they band together and believe in something. I'm still drowning in e-mails of support from all over the world (on Saturday alone, we had visitors from over 100 COUNTRIES!). Some messages were short, usually a word or two of praise and maybe a joke. Other e-mails were long and detailed, explaining how we had somehow managed to make someone's day (I still don't see how, we just played games). But this weekend wasn't about us, the e-mails, or even the sweet limericks. Instead, it was about how a love for something as simple as a couple of video games can pull together the masses and raise over $1150 to help a bunch of kids through a kickass charity such as Child's Play.

To all of you, thanks again, even though I could never thank you enough. Whether you tuned in for 5 minutes or e-mailed us throughout the entire thing and lost sleep along side us, we hope you enjoyed every single second of it, just like we did.

To wrap stuff up, once some of the money clears through online check processes, I will get the stuff to Child's Play. I'll make a blog post once we get all that stuff finalized, in case you guys want to know when they actually get the money and what the final actual total is.

Thanks again for all the fan art/comics/pictures of you with cameronbanga.com written on yourself. If you sent us a piece of work, do me a favor and send it again next week so I can find a copy of it in the mass of e-mails we have. I want to keep the collection haha. If you want to make more art or pictures with writing on yourself, go ahead and send it in. We would love to see it and possibly post it on the site. If you had a more personal e-mail you wanted me to answer (anything more than good luck or a question Zelda related), feel free to send it again to Cameron@CameronBanga.com now that we are done with the weekend and I will have a chance to sit down and look at them.

And we also had a lot of interest from people who want to see us do this again. We are definitely interested, but give us a day or so to sleep and contemplate in the correct frame of mind. Bookmark us or add www.cameronbanga.com to and RSS reader and check back in a week or so when you can find more information.

If this last blog post sucks or is incoherent, I apologize. I am sure you will all understand haha. To Tom, Dillon, Natalie, Will, Sac, Dean, Chris, Adam, Mike, Jared (with his group of friends, sorry I didn't catch all your names haha), and the multitude of other people who I am sure were there for this and I am forgetting about. Thanks for being a part of this with me, it is definitely one weekend I won't be forgetting anytime in the near future. - CB


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Tomorrow, I'm going to start something that I may be regretting.

It's going to be a long weekend. Bud, if you ever read this, I'm never going to give up and will definitely trust my instincts. But if you could, will you kiss the knuckles for me? I'm going to need it.

As if the internet wasn't weird enough, technology has now advanced to the point where you can watch me whenever you want.

[EDIT, embedded TV station taken out. If you want to watch CB_TV, click the link on the navigation menu to your right.]

This is just me testing stuff out, hope you enjoy it.

I admit it, I am a nerd. Through the course of my life, I have played hundreds of games spanning pretty much every platform since the Sega Genesis. I really shouldn't state that last fact so proudly, in fact it is a really embarrassing statistic now that I look back at it. I guess the only thing I can do is look back and cherish my time spent by putting together a top five list of my favorite games of all-time.

The list will be in order from five to one, but mind you that deciding between positions on the list is fairly difficult. In all reality, four could be three or five could be two. Besides the clear cut number one position, the rest of the games could be a toss up more or less.

5. Pokémon Red and Blue - I really had a hard time placing this set of games on the list and I can't put my finger on exactly why. I have definitely put more time into these games than maybe any other games I have ever played. Maybe I didn't want to inclue them because they make me feel nerdy? Maybe I can't see putting a handheld game on the list? Maybe because the sequels (especially Gold and Silver or Diamond and Sapphire) are arguably more solid games? I can make up a lot of maybes, but there is no denying the fact that these two titles helped launch a series which would go on to sell more titles than all but a handful of other gaming series.

4. Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2 - This game should maybe be as high as number two on my list, but I have a hard time placing it there because it is technically a sports game. However, no other sports game has ever been as deep or had such tight controls. The game was also one of the best balanced games of all-time. Career Mode lead rookies or veterans on a nice run of the brilliantly designed levels, but the real meat and potatoes of the game came through time spent exploring each local. Each level had an amazing amount of lines waiting to be discovered by those who took the time to tinker around with the setting. The sound track and amazing amount of unlockables helped push this game to near perfection.

3. Beyond Good and Evil - If there was ever a game that was an example as to why publishers never create original properties, this game is reason numero uno. This game is really a combination of a 3D Zelda and Pokémon Snap, if that combination makes any sense at all. The game has really exceptional characters, gameplay, music, layout, and story. Seriously, all those key components are extremely well executed. The game also offers a fair amount of collectibles and side-quests to pro-long the adventure. The game just suffered from a lack of correct timing. It was released along with some real blockbusters that kept it from gaining any mainstream press attention. The game was also short, only about 12-14 hours at it's longest, which isn't much for a game in its genre. If you can find this gem used on the GameCube for a couple bucks, do yourself a favor and pick it up. I guarantee it will be one of the best decisions you ever make.

2. Grandia 2 - While the lifespan of the Dreamcast may have been cut short a little too early, it had it's fair share of real gems. This game may have just been it's greatest, as well as it's most underrated. Grandia 2 is a 40+ hour RPG that follows the story of a young geo-hound as tries to help a young songstress and save the world. Yeah, the story may be cliché, but it has enough twists and turns to hold interest. The thing that really makes this game stand out is it's battle system. The turn-based combat feels fresh and intuitive even now. The game had a deep magic and item system that helped flesh out the system into a great game of strategy and wit when matched up against the wonderful bosses in the game. PS2 owners can be happy in the fact that this game was ported to the system back in 2002 or so, but it is quite rare. The PS2 port has been reviewed as a pretty poor migration from the Dreamcast, but if you can find a copy at a GameStop it is definitely worth the cash.

1. The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time - If you know me personally, then this definitely was not a shocker to you. The game simply revolutionized games as we knew them back in 1998. It had a great story at a time when most games still went with virtually non-existent stories. The musical score was easily Koji Kondo's greatest masterpiece. But first and foremost, this game redefined how we look at gameplay in a 3D world. The combat system was ages beyond it's time with a multitude of weapons which all worked to perfection. The Z-targeting system made it possible to battle several enemies at once without painful camera problems. All these key components as came together with perfect level layout, lovable supporting characters, and epic boss battles which kept you waiting for the next dungeon. While the game may look and somewhat feel dated today, nearly ten years later, the Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time is still a testament as to what gaming perfection should be.

I hope you all like my list. Again, this list is based off of games I have played and is limited to entirely my own preferences. If you have a question or feel like arguing one of my points, feel free to e-mail me at Cameron@CameronBanga.com