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Summer Games Done Quick 2024: Watch Day 5 here

Celebrate 4th of July with Summer Games Done Quick!

Ozzie Mejia

July 4, 2024 6:00 AM

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Happy 4th of July to everyone out there! Take a day to celebrate it with Summer Games Done Quick! This year's SGDQ airs during July 4th week and brings together the world's best speedrunners to run through some of the most memorable games of the past and present. As always, they'll do it for charity in front of a worldwide audience on Twitch.

Summer Games Done Quick 2024 is coming to you from the Hilton Minneapolis Downtown in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Most of this year's runners are on site for live runs, though a few will be checking in virtually for some remote runs. This year's event is raising money for Doctors Without Borders. After four days, the runners have raised over $680,000. 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 4. Roll call!

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

Summer Games Done Quick 2024: Day 5 schedule

Here's the full schedule for Day 5, taken from the Games Done Quick website, along with a handful of runs to check out. These times may change depending on how many runs go either long or short, but keep an eye on the comments for the latest updates.

5:58PM - Ken Griffey Jr. Presents Major League Baseball

This rare gem of a sports game almost never gets exposure at Games Done Quick. It's beloved by the older generation, back when Nintendo was in the business of publishing its own first-party MLB games. That's enough of a weird anomaly in itself, but what if I added that this game is being run by a dog?

That's right! JSR_ and Peanut Butter the Dog are back after a triumphant Awesome Games Done Quick appearance earlier this year. This time, Peanut Butter is picking up a bat and leading his team to victory. Because there's nothing in the rulebook that says a dog can't play a baseball video game.

6:35PM - Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice

Sekiro has been at GDQ several times, giving FromSoftware even more representation at these marathons. However, this will be the first time that a runner will attempt to complete this game without taking a single hit. Is such a thing even possible? Tune in and find out!

12:34AM - Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1-4

Experience not one, not two, not even three, but four classic Tony Hawk titles! PARTY MAN X will look to run through the first four games consecutively and look to do so with a target time of 1:16:00. Come watch the best of Tony Hawk to round out this 4th of July evening.

Summer Games Done Quick 2024 will take place from now through Saturday, July 6. 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?