Nintendo Australia Celebrates Pokemon Anniversary With Sick Children

A heartwarming news from Nintendo Australia: in celebration of Pokemon’s tenth anniversary, Nintendo will host festivities on September 12  for the sick children at the Royal Children’s Hospital.

Aiming to provide much-needed fun and positive distraction for the seriously ill children, Nintendo cooperates with the Starlight Children’s Foundation to pull off the event, hosting Pokemon battles and Trivia challenge. Of course, the celebration won’t be complete unless Pikachu himself is there. The anime character will be inviting kids to help him with cutting the cake.

It’s activities like this that help alleviate the lonely plight of the ill children as they are given something to look forward to, and allow them reprieve from their sad state. At least even for a day, they can get to enjoy things that they normally won’t be able to do given their conditions. “Anything we can do to help entertain, amuse, and bring some joy to their lives is especially rewarding for all of us at Nintendo,” says Nintendo Australia‘s Director of Sales and Marketing, Rose Lappin.

Nintendo has been collaborating with the Starlight Children’s Foundation for activities like this since its establishment in 1994. They have also provided Nintendo consoles for over 400 Starlight Fun Centres in 162 pediatric wards all over the land down under since that time. That’s a whole lot of good deed.

A heartwarming news from Nintendo Australia: in celebration of Pokemon’s tenth anniversary, Nintendo will host festivities on September 12  for the sick children at the Royal Children’s Hospital.

Aiming to provide much-needed fun and positive distraction for the seriously ill children, Nintendo cooperates with the Starlight Children’s Foundation to pull off the event, hosting Pokemon battles and Trivia challenge. Of course, the celebration won’t be complete unless Pikachu himself is there. The anime character will be inviting kids to help him with cutting the cake.

It’s activities like this that help alleviate the lonely plight of the ill children as they are given something to look forward to, and allow them reprieve from their sad state. At least even for a day, they can get to enjoy things that they normally won’t be able to do given their conditions. “Anything we can do to help entertain, amuse, and bring some joy to their lives is especially rewarding for all of us at Nintendo,” says Nintendo Australia‘s Director of Sales and Marketing, Rose Lappin.

Nintendo has been collaborating with the Starlight Children’s Foundation for activities like this since its establishment in 1994. They have also provided Nintendo consoles for over 400 Starlight Fun Centres in 162 pediatric wards all over the land down under since that time. That’s a whole lot of good deed.