Chattanooga TN- January 16, 2011 – Pure Nintendo would like to announce their third annual “Nintendo Icon Marathon” to help raise money for Childs Play. The marathon will be lived streamed at purenintendo.com starting at 6 pm ET January 21-23.

This year’s marathon the Pure Nintendo staff decided to pick their top Wii games that may have been over looked but still held a big impact during the Wii’s life.

A Little about the cause.

Child’s Play is a game industry charity dedicated to improving the lives of children with toys and games in their network of over 70 hospitals worldwide. All donations to the marathon will go directly to supporting children who are trapped in hospitals for a variety of reasons.

For more information about Child’s Play, please check out childsplaycharity.org

A little about the Marathon

Below is the list of games the staff has picked to play at this year’s marathon.

Justin Sharp (Owner) – Twilight Princess

James Higginbotham (Head-Editor) – Epic Mickey

Kevin Klein (Visual-Editor) – Super Smash Brothers Brawl: Subspace Emissary

Eli Courey (Copy-Editor) – Red Steel 2

Fore more information about the marathon, please check out purenintendo.com/charity