Nintendo of America grant a terminal 21 year old cancer patient his dying wish

[Master Disaster]

Something a little bit different and positive. Who says news always has to be bad?

 

Chris Taylor has recently been given up to 6 months to live and is a huge smash brothers fan but isn't sure he'll be around in December to play the new version so his friends started a campaign to see if they could fix that.

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Chris Taylor, like any Nintendo fan, is hyped to see that Super Smash Bros. Ultimate is shaping up to be mashup fighter of epic proportions, but unlike most of us, the 21-year-old is not sure he’ll live long enough to see the Switch game on store shelves. Taylor has terminal cancer and has been given months to live, so his friends started a social media campaign to get Nintendo’s attention.

His campaign was picked up by some fairly big YouTubers including Review Tech USA and Son Of A Glitch as well as over on Reddit.

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Over the last week, Smash Bros. fans on Twitter and Reddit have lobbied Nintendo to let Taylor play Ultimate before he passes; these posts have gotten thousands of signal boosts from fans who were touched by Taylor’s situation.

The 21 year old has been fighting an aggressive form of bone cancer for 3 years and has been through multiple treatments including contributing to experimental treatments too.

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Taylor has osteosarcoma, a bone cancer that he has been fighting for three years. “I have done more treatment than most, and have contributed to 2 different high risk studies,” Taylor wrote on question-and-answer social media site Curious Cat. Taylor decided not to continue treatment for his terminal condition earlier this year. “I came to this decision from many directions, I’ve done a total of 6 different treatments for my cancer now and they’ve had no noticeable effect, or in once case, made my situation worse,” he wrote on Twitter. According to his doctor’s prognosis, he has anywhere from three to six months to live.

And then this....

https://www.theverge.com/2018/9/21/17888326/nintendo-super-smash-bros-ultimate-terminal-cancer-patient

 

I'm really happy for the dude, let's let him enjoy the little time he has left.

 

Well done Nintendo

[Emberstone]

That's a great story. Damn onions.

 

Do you think I could get Valve to show me Half Life 3 if I get cancer?

[Sniperfox47]

2 hours ago, Emberstone said:

That's a great story. Damn onions.

 

Do you think I could get Valve to show me Half Life 3 if I get cancer?

Nah if you get cancer they'll add your expected lifespan onto the development time, just to make sure.

[Ginger_]

2 hours ago, Emberstone said:

That's a great story. Damn onions.

 

Do you think I could get Valve to show me Half Life 3 if I get cancer?

Time to take one for the team man

 

/s

[Andreas Lilja]

2 hours ago, Emberstone said:

That's a great story. Damn onions.

 

Do you think I could get Valve to show me Half Life 3 if I get cancer?

*starts smoking 5 packs a day*

[ARikozuM]

FUCK YEAH!!! WOOOH! 

 

Also, we need a Manakete for Smash Bros. MAKE IT HAPPEN, REGGIE!

[GDRRiley]

cool.

[Brooksie359]

7 hours ago, Master Disaster said:

Something a little bit different and positive. Who says news always has to be bad?

 

Chris Taylor has recently been given up to 6 months to live and is a huge smash brothers fan but isn't sure he'll be around in December to play the new version so his friends started a campaign to see if they could fix that.

His campaign was picked up by some fairly big YouTubers including Review Tech USA and Son Of A Glitch as well as over on Reddit.

The 21 year old has been fighting an aggressive form of bone cancer for 3 years and has been through multiple treatments including contributing to experimental treatments too.

And then this....

https://www.theverge.com/2018/9/21/17888326/nintendo-super-smash-bros-ultimate-terminal-cancer-patient

 

I'm really happy for the dude, let's let him enjoy the little time he has left.

 

Well done Nintendo

I feel as though stories like this are always a mix for me. Yeah I really like what they are doing for them but it's still sad the situation they are in. In the end I feel as though the story is sad none the less. 

[Guest]

Science and technology aren't advanced enough yet to save someone from whatever it is that can afflict them -- and they probably never will be capable of treating most diseases. 

 

At least he got his wish completed, and that's really good.

[Misanthrope]

I hope this ends up being the greatest social engineering feat ever accomplished by a pirate group.

[Nowak]

Fuck cancer. At least he was able to get his dying wish fulfilled, but... fuck cancer.

[maartendc]

That's great. Cool of Nintendo that they would let him play the E3 Demo. Not like it costs them anything, but still very nice that they went through the trouble.

[Peskanova]

[D13H4RD]

Taylor just recently passed away. 

 

Rest in peace, kid. 

[Snadzies]

Good job, Nintendo, helping a single guy with cancer totally makes up for more than a decade of completely ass fucking your consumers by locking saves, game purchases, DLC ect to a single consoles forcing your consumers to replay/repurchase such thing with each hardware ideration or if their system breaks.