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Nintendo donates Fun Center 5K release
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}
