Well, their marathon is over now - I didn't think to post up here when I was watching; I only jumped in from FF7, FF9 and FF8. Any one else manage to watch this?

Basically, the Speed Gamers decided to run a marathon all week to play through Final Fantasy 1 - 12, they even had an extra feed of someone playing FF11. This was to raise charity for ACT Today.

Their initial goal was to raise $20,000, but in the end they managed to get around $50,400. However, they didn't make it to FF10 and 12.

http://www.thespeedgamers.com/

They have been on the news; you can watch it on their main page. I think they've done a great thing to raise money and put video games in a good light with the mainstream media.

As a side note, their next marathon is going to involve the Mega Man games.