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Awesome Games Done Quick 2024: Watch Day 4 here

Featuring Metroid, Mario on drums, and the always-popular Awful Games Done Quick block.

Ozzie Mejia

January 17, 2024 6:00 AM

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Awesome Games Done Quick has returned for another week of speedrunning for charity. We're watching the best speedrunners in the world come together to play through games of the past and present and finish. They might even play a few terrible games, as we'll get to shortly. As they do every year, they'll be raising money 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 three days, the runners have raised over $500,000. 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 3. Peanut Butter is a good boy, yes he is.

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

Awesome Games Done Quick 2024: Day 4 schedule

Here's the full schedule for Day 4, taken from the Games Done Quick website, along with a handful of runs to check out:

9:14AM - Metroid Dread

The Metroid games have found a good home at Games Done Quick from the very beginning of the whole idea of charity speedrunning. Metroid Dread has gradually found its place alongside the other greats in this series and now it's time to see how far the 100% (No Major Glitches) category has come. Watch as JustNZane and CScottyW look to finish the game in just under two hours.

6:05PM - Super Mario 64

There's beating Bowser like a drum and then there's beating Bowser with a drum. This is a Super Mario 64 category like no other and we've seen a lot of them across GDQ's history. Watch as CZR hooks up his modded drum kit and follows the rhythm to 16 stars and a victory over the King of the Koopas.

10:26PM - The Awful Games Done Quick Block

The Awful Games Done Quick block is always a big-time event and this year will be no exception. For the uninitiated, even the biggest piles of trash can develop a speedrunning community as evidenced by many of the games on display here. Yes, that even includes 2023's heavily maligned Skull Island: Rise of Kong, which (and I can't believe I'm saying this) is making its Games Done Quick debut tonight.

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?