Dillon Hill, 21, was doing homework one evening during his freshman year of college at the University of California–Davis when his phone rang. His childhood best friend Chris Betancourt was on the other end of the line; he told him that his cancer had returned. He only had approximately a year to live unless he received a bone marrow transplant.
Betancourt had been diagnosed with cancer at age 11. During the treatment process, Betancourt and Hill found that playing video games was tremendously therapeutic. After Betancourt went into remission, Hill went on to found the organization Gamers Gift while in high school, which has donated 75 gaming consoles and 225 games to kids in children’s hospitals.
