Check out the highlights of this gaming marathon that raised $1 million for cancer prevention

We can’t all save the world. Some of us just want to play video games, but it turns out that the two aren’t mutually exclusive.

Over the last week, a group of gamers helped raise over $1 million for the Prevent Cancer Foundation. The members of Speed Demos Archive, which is a collection of people who enjoy beating games as quickly as possible, put on a week-long marathon called Awesome Games Done Quick. The event saw dozens of speedrunners — as they are known in the community — breaking open scores of games.

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