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Awesome Games Done Quick 2024: Watch Day 3 here

The third day of Awesome Games Done Quick features a very good boy running a video game.

Ozzie Mejia

January 16, 2024 6:00 AM

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The three-day weekend may be over in America, but Awesome Games Done Quick continues throughout the week. Check out the world's best speedrunners as they come together to play through games of the past and present and finish them as quickly as possible. As they do every year, they'll be doing it for charity in front of a worldwide audience on Twitch.

Awesome Games Done Quick 2024 has come to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Many of this year's runners are on-hand for live runs, though a few are checking in virtually from their home spaces. This year's event is raising money for the Prevent Cancer Foundation. After two days, the runners have raised over $285,000. Shacknews will be watching all week and we'll make sure to bring you the daily schedule each day. Plus, we're making sure to highlight the biggest runs worth watching.

Before we get to the schedule, let's look at a highlight from Day 2. We like boss quick kills.

You can watch all of the action in the embed below!

Awesome Games Done Quick 2024: Day 3 schedule

Here's the full schedule for Day 3, taken from the Games Done Quick website, along with a handful of runs to check out:

6:57AM - Tape to Tape

There are more than a few hockey fans among the Shacknews staff, so Tape to Tape was a pleasant surprise to us for several reasons. For one thing, it's actually a good hockey video game. For another, it's a hockey roguelike, which... we weren't sure how that worked, but it ended up being awesome in execution. It may still in be early access, but a speedrunning community is beginning to develop for it and we're happy to see it on the GDQ stage.

10:11AM - Gyromite

There's nothing in the rulebook that says a dog can't speedrun a video game. Peanut Butter the Dog takes on the role usually reserved for R.O.B. the Robot and he'll work with his owner, JSR_, to complete Gyromite in just 30 minutes. He'll do it because he's a good boy, yes he is.

11:56PM - Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door

One of Nintendo's presumably last big hits for the Nintendo Switch is a remake of Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, but why not get yourself in the mood for it by watching this run of the original game. Check out why it's so beloved and enjoy this 2.5 hour sprint through this epic tale.

Awesome Games Done Quick 2024 will take place from now through Saturday, January 20. For more, check out the Games Done Quick website and be sure to come back all week to Shacknews for more on this week's marathon.

Ozzie Mejia

Senior Editor

Ozzie has been playing video games since picking up his first NES controller at age 5. He has been into games ever since, only briefly stepping away during his college years. But he was pulled back in after spending years in QA circles for both THQ and Activision, mostly spending time helping to push forward the Guitar Hero series at its peak. Ozzie has become a big fan of platformers, puzzle games, shooters, and RPGs, just to name a few genres, but he’s also a huge sucker for anything with a good, compelling narrative behind it. Because what are video games if you can't enjoy a good story with a fresh Cherry Coke?