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Awesome Games Done Quick 2016 schedule revealed

The full schedule for the upcoming Awesome Games Done Quick 2016 speed running charity event has been laid out. Save your pennies, because it's time to save or kill the animals for the Prevent Cancer Foundation.

Ozzie Mejia

December 19, 2015 12:00 PM

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When the new year begins, that means it'll be time to kick things off with a week full of speed runs. Awesome Games Done Quick is set to begin on Sunday, January 3 and run through the 8th, featuring speed runs across dozens of games, both classic and modern. As always, the effort will be a week-long charity fundraiser for the Prevent Cancer Foundation.

Yesterday, the full schedule was posted for the week. The highlights include a first day with Splatoon's single-player campaign, Diddy Kong Racing, and Super Mario 64. The week will also include runs for modern games, such as this year's Transformers: Devastation, Ori and the Blind Forest, Axiom Verge, Super Time Force Ultra (on Super Hardcore difficulty), Shovel Knight: Plague of Shadows, and Bloodborne on the final day.

Of course, it wouldn't be AGDQ without classic games, including ones with gimmicks. The big gimmick runs feature a blindfold run for Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!, the aforementioned Transformers: Devastation with one hand, and The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past in reverse boss order. Super Metroid will also feature a reverse boss order run and of course, donation incentives will determine whether Samus saves or kills the animals during the final escape sequence.

The full schedule can be found here. Awesome Games Done Quick 2016 begins at 11:30AM EST on Sunday, January 3, with all the action viewable on the Games Done Quick Twitch channel.

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?