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Nintendo has been long known for their affiliation with the Starlight Starbright Children's Foundation which has lasted for over a decade. Nintendo has now donated five thousand Fun Centers to children in hospitals. Jamie Lee Curtis was on hand to assist in the delivery of this much appreciated Fun Center. This latest Fun Center model includes a Sharp AQUOS liquid crystal flat-screen monitor, a DVD player and a Nintendo GameCube system.

Jamie Lee Curtis has been a proponent of the Fun Center ever since her son was hospitalized at age 5 with a ruptured spleen. "The nurses rolled in a Starlight Starbright Fun Center, and he was completely transformed. His anxiety and pain gave way to happiness, playfulness and distraction," said Jamie Lee. "That night I came away with a conviction: We need Fun Centers in every hospital!"

"It is fitting that Starlight Starbright's 5,000th Fun Center is a gift from Nintendo; we wouldn't have it any other way," said Don James, Executive Vice President, Operations of Nintendo. "I'm also pleased to announce that we will begin shipping new-and-improved Fun Centers to hospitals starting in summer 2007."

"While diversion is the Fun Center's primary purpose, these entertainment centers do much more — they improve the quality of a pediatric patient's life," said Paula Van Ness, CEO of Starlight Starbright. "Tens of thousands of Starlight Starbright children and their families join us in thanking Nintendo for its steadfast commitment to making a world of difference."

Future Fun Centers will include the Nintendo Wii, which is poised to release in November of the year of our Lord 2006. Owners of this very website are familiar with the Starlight Starbright Fun Center's as they have seen them on their visits to hospitals. More than a thousand hospitals have received one or more Fun Centers {10/12/2006}