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ESA unveils charity combo pack

By Brendan Sinclair, GameSpotPosted Nov 15, 2007 11:03 am PT

Industry trade group asking $29.99 for Cars, Fuzion Frenzy, Open Season; expected proceeds of $2 million will support positive youth programs.

In 2005, the Entertainment Software Association and Sony Computer Entertainment of America worked together to release the ESA Charity Pack, a discount-priced threesome of PlayStation 2 games that raised more than $1.5 million for a variety of US children's charities.

The ESA is reprising the endeavor this year with the help of Microsoft. The 2007 ESA Charity Pack will include a trio of original Xbox games and sell for $29.99 at retailers throughout the US. The pack includes Disney's Cars, Open Season, and Fuzion Frenzy, all of which can be played using the Xbox 360's backward compatibility. The pack is expected to generate $2 million in proceeds, which will be donated to the trade group's charitable arm, the ESA Foundation.

[UPDATE]: Judging by the package art for this year's ESA Charity Pack and the retailer product listings, the ESA Foundation's announcement contained multiple errors. The charity pack actually contains the Xbox 360 editions of Cars and Open Season, as well as Fuzion Frenzy 2, the Xbox 360 sequel to the original Xbox launch title Fuzion Frenzy.

Other companies that helped make the project possible by waiving fees or donating services include Great Western Industries, Packaging 2.0 LLC, Sonopress, Technicolor, Iridio, and TenGun Design.

29 Comments

  • MasterChief725

    Posted Nov 16, 2007 11:44 am PT

    this is great. I would buy all 3, if I had an xbox. Good for them

  • Kkirtap

    Posted Nov 16, 2007 8:57 am PT

    You guy's must not work in gaming retail or have kids. Fuzion Frenzy is one of the better selling party games that I have seen on the xbox and cars is a really good game for kids. Just because you don't like them does not mean that nobody else does. I manage a game store and have two kids, and in my store both of those games do very well, open season could definitly been somthing different, but overall this would do well at my store. Keep in mind this is a bundle for kids to raise money for childrens charity it is designed to apeal to parents with kids.

  • fatty5xl

    Posted Nov 16, 2007 8:24 am PT

    2 mill in procedes for crap no one will ever buy thats a lil inflated dont you think

  • fatty5xl

    Posted Nov 16, 2007 8:21 am PT

    leave it to ea to sell something nobody will ever buy . i hope the charities are not counting on gittin anything

  • dorohala

    Posted Nov 16, 2007 7:41 am PT

    I dont know and I know care!!!

  • b11051973

    Posted Nov 15, 2007 6:14 pm PT

    I picked this up the other day.

  • Lord__Darkstorn

    Posted Nov 15, 2007 4:13 pm PT

    this is kind of expensive for games that noone wants...

  • mafafu888

    Posted Nov 15, 2007 3:24 pm PT

    This has been out on 360 for a few weeks now, they are 360 games, and it's fuzion frenzy 2.

  • umbrae

    Posted Nov 15, 2007 3:19 pm PT

    Well, it is definitely "charity" to buy that combo...

  • gamerfps

    Posted Nov 15, 2007 2:38 pm PT

    A better three pack:

    Psychonauts, Beyond Good and Evil, iNinja.

    MS would have to make BG&E backwards compatible, but that isn't a bad thing. :p

  • hawk-hunter

    Posted Nov 15, 2007 2:06 pm PT

    Great choice of a system, but could some better games be too much to ask for?

  • Rikstah

    Posted Nov 15, 2007 1:51 pm PT

    lol yeah to put it bluntly they're offering some crappy games

  • crippla87

    Posted Nov 15, 2007 1:37 pm PT

    I agree with LockdownLA, if they had more appealing, but reasonable all ages games, they could make so much more money for this cause.

  • LockdownLA

    Posted Nov 15, 2007 1:24 pm PT

    That's really great in spirit, but man, could they have picked more appealing games? I'd rather just donate the cash than get those stinkers.

  • notto1

    Posted Nov 15, 2007 1:17 pm PT

    I have it already have it and the games are for the xbox 360 not the xbox and yes they are the full games its a great deal for not so great of games. But you can get 3000 pointsof achivements if you want to play the games all the way thourgh. Its only $10 a game!!!!!

  • trj156

    Posted Nov 15, 2007 1:02 pm PT

    they are 360 games, i've seen the pack at least twice in the past week

  • ColdfireTrilogy

    Posted Nov 15, 2007 12:59 pm PT

    Not games i really wanted to play. :S

  • Seymour47

    Posted Nov 15, 2007 12:51 pm PT

    But, I wanted the money to support negative youth programs!

  • pimpstrel

    Posted Nov 15, 2007 12:46 pm PT

    too bad they didnt do this for games that I would actually buy

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